Purpose

This article provides an overview of the Project Marketplace and instructions on how to join projects to enhance your professional growth.

Audience

The Project Marketplace is for employees with Career Hub and the Project Marketplace feature enabled in their Eightfold environment.

Applying to a project

In the Project Marketplace, you can find and apply to any project available within your company.

To navigate to the Project Marketplace select Marketplace > Projects from the top navigation menu in Career Hub.

Projects are listed as a stack of cards on the left of the page, with the details of the selected project displayed on the right.

To view the details of a project, select that card in the stack.

Figure 1: Details of a project in the Project Marketplace.

To apply to join a project, take the following steps:

1. Select Join just below the project name.
2. Enter an optional note in the pop-up dialog box.
3. Select Confirm.

Reviewing project details

To evaluate how the project might help you develop as a professional, look at the Learning Opportunity panel on the right of the project details.

The panel displays the skills you already have and skills that you could learn while participating in this project.

If you feel that your skills are not reflected accurately, click Update Your Skills. This takes you to your profile page. For details on updating your profile, read Keep your profile complete.

To find Similar Projects and Related Courses, scroll down to the bottom of the project detail page.

To see how many people are interested in the project, review the applicant count and handclap count just below the project name. Figure 2: A sample project name with the number of applicants and handclaps for the project.

FAQ

How can an employee opt out from participating in projects?

Note: This functionality is default off and needs to be enabled by following these steps.

Go to Admin Console > Home > Feature Management and enable the Ability to turn off Project Invitations for Employees feature.

By this disinterested employee can opt out of being invited or added to projects, from their Career hub Profile page.

Employees opted-out of projects will be removed from the ‘All Employees’ and ‘Leads’ section of the project pipeline page. As a result, the project manager can't invite such employees.

Project manager won't be allowed to invite opted-out employees to their project from the ‘People’ page.

Project managers won't be allowed to add opted-out employees directly to the project team.