Training Directory

What this achieves

The Training Directory is a catalogue of training offered by outside providers, curated by Humavera rather than by your company. You use it to find a course that exists in the market when nothing in your own library covers what someone needs.

External catalogue, not your course library

This is the distinction that decides which section you want. Both hold courses, but they are different kinds of thing and they behave differently.

Option	Description
Training Directory	Third-party providers and their courses, curated centrally by Humavera. You browse it. You do not author or edit its contents.
Learning	Your own courses, learning paths, assessments, and certifications, authored and owned by your company.

Example: HC Corp writes its own onboarding course in Learning. When James Whitfield needs a vendor certification that HC Corp does not teach, Olivia Bennett looks for a provider in the Training Directory.

Available to everyone

The directory is not gated by subscription and not restricted by role. Every workspace can browse it, including those on the free tier, and every signed-in role can open it.

That is a deliberate choice. Deciding what training to buy is a question people ask before they have bought anything, so putting the catalogue behind a paid plan would defeat its purpose.

Finding something in it

The catalogue is filtered rather than browsed end to end, because it spans providers, sectors, and countries. Find external training covers applying the filters and reading a result.

Option	Description
Skill	Find courses that teach a specific skill, which lets you search from a gap rather than from a course name.
Sector	Narrow to training aimed at a particular industry.
Country	Narrow to providers operating where your people are.
Mode	Narrow by how the training is delivered.

Example: Olivia Bennett filters by the skill she needs on her team and by the United Kingdom, rather than reading through every provider to find one that teaches in London.

Searching by skill is the most useful habit. A skills gap identified in your own skills analytics is a question the directory can answer directly, because both sides describe capability in the same terms.

What the directory does not do

Browsing is where the directory stops. It is a reference catalogue, so it does not book a place, take a payment, or enrol anybody. Acting on what you find is a separate step in the sections that own it: an employee asks for external training through a training request, which routes for approval where a cost is involved, and any budget the request consumes is tracked in learning budgets.

Example: finding a course here does not commit HC Corp to paying for it. Priya Raman still sees the request and the cost before anything is approved.

What happens next

Use the directory to establish that suitable training exists and who provides it, then move into learning to request it, approve it, and record the outcome. If the same gap keeps sending you outside for training, that is a signal worth acting on in skills and competencies — either the gap is worth closing permanently with your own course, or it belongs in hiring.