Purpose

The purpose of this article is to outline the profile review and skill assessment functionalities and its features.

Audience

The intended audience of this document is the logged-out PCS and logged-in PCS users.

Overview

Profile review and Skills assessment is focused to continue engaging with the candidate post application submission so that candidates can enrich their profile. This will help candidates put their best foot forward and likely to improve their chances of getting hired.

Companies in return get more meaningful data beyond the candidate’s resume without impacting conversion on their application form. Skills assessment particularly helps companies reduce bias, and diversify their workforce by focusing on skill-based hiring instead of reviewing just Experience and Education.

Basics

This feature includes two screens:

• Profile Review: After applying for a job, candidates will be taken to the Profile Review page, where they can review, and update their information parsed from their resume. This gives them an opportunity to fix any resume parsing errors.
• Skill Assessment: On the second page of the review, users will find a list of skills tailored to the applied position's requirements. Candidates can rate their proficiency level and add comments to provide more context on how and where they acquired the skill.

Recruiters will have access to this rich data while reviewing the applicant’s profile. Access to this data helps drive hiring based on Skills and improves efficiency of the hiring process.

Functionality

Post-application profile review process

1. Profile Review: After applying for a job, candidates are directed to the Profile Review page. On the first page, candidates can review and update their profile details, ensuring accuracy and relevance. Candidates can modify information such as:
   • Contact details: Email, Location, and Phone number.
   • Work Experience: Candidates can add previous work experience that covers most of the important information, such as role/job title, company, start date, location, and skills acquired from this role.
   • Education details
   • Preference

Figure 1: Profile Review page

2. Skill Assessment: On the second page, candidates encounter the Skill Assessment section. A list of skills is presented based on the calibration setup for all open applications. For each skill, candidates can rate their proficiency level and provide additional comments if desired.

   Also, the candidates can add and rate the additional skills that are relevant from the Other applicable skills you may have section.


Figure 2: Skill Assessment Page

3. Saving information: After completing the Skill Assessment, candidates click I'm done. The entered details and skill assessments are saved to the candidate's profile within Talent Acquisition.

Figure 3: Browse Jobs Page

4. Browse More Jobs: By clicking Browse jobs, candidates can apply for multiple jobs and keep updating the skills and other relevant information through Profile Review and Skill Assessment section.

   Note: When a candidate initiates a fresh session and subsequently uploads their resume for a new job application, it is imperative for the candidate to undergo email verification

5. Track your application: Candidates can track all the applications under My Applications, by clicking the Track your application.

Viewing skill information on candidate profile in TA

1. Open the candidate profile.
2. The Skills Acquired section displays the skills assessed by the candidate. Note that an assessment icon is displayed against skills that the candidate has assessed.
3. By clicking View entire skill profile, recruiters can see the candidates rating for each skill relevant to current position and other skills that are mentioned in the candidate profile.

Note: Skills parsed from your resume do not include a rating. Eightfold doesn't infer ratings based on resume content.