👣 Monitor Profile Quality

Talent - Personal Information

Is the profile location complete and accurate?

Impact: Profiles within 50km of an assignment location are given priority.

Tip: Indicate the talent's location in their Personal Information.

Profile Completion Criterion: Location

Number of Years of Experience

Impact: In the Casting Engine, users can filter by a range of the number of years of experience. In this case, profiles without any years of experience defined are excluded.

Tip: Indicate your number of years of experience by editing your Personal Information and indicating your Date of Entry into Working Life.

Profile Completion Criterion: Date of entry in working life

Does the profile have a picture?

Impact: A profile picture helps with recognition and creates a more complete professional profile, making it easier for colleagues and managers to identify talents.

Profile Completion Criterion: Picture

Profile - Summary

Does the profile have a clear Bio, summarizing their skills and experience?

Impact: Free-text searches encompasses the text in the biography.

Tip: In addition to providing a concise overview of your experience, include key search terms in your talent biography.

Profile Completion Criterion: Biography with more than 100 characters

Is the company indicated?

Impact: The company field helps organize talents by employer and is used in searches and filters throughout the platform.

Profile Completion Criterion: Company

Does the profile have a clear Job Title?

Impact: Free-text searches encompass the text in the Job Title.

Profile Completion Criterion: Job title

Profile - Skills

Is the list of skills complete?

Impact: Having an accurate list of skills is key to ensuring accurate search results and request matching. See Complete Your Profile.

Tips:

• Click Edit skills to see a suggestion of the 20 most relevant skills that a talent can add to their resume.

• Click Detect skills on your use profile to have Whoz automatically detect skills based on the talent's experiences and add them to their resume.

Profile Completion Criteria:

• At least 5 non-language skills have XPS and proficiency
• At least 10 non-language skills have XPS and proficiency
• At least 15 non-language skills have XPS and proficiency

Note that hidden skills are also excluded from the profile completion rate calculation.

Are the main skills highlighted?

Impact: Profiles with highlighted skills appear higher in search results for a skill.

Tip: Ensure that the main skills of a profile are marked as highlighted by clicking the pencil icon on the Skills section of a profile and selecting the Highlighted indicator for the skill.

Profile Completion Criterion: At least 3 highlighted skills have XPS and proficiency

Is the proficiency of each skill accurate?

The proficiency level of a skill is a manual recording of a self or external assessment. This drives the calculation of the inferred proficiency (used for the Casting Engine), which is a combination of the proficiency declared here and the calculated XPS. 

Profile Completion Criterion: All skills have proficiency

Are language skills included with proficiency levels?

Impact: Language skills are important for international assignments and client-facing roles. Including them with proficiency levels helps match talents to opportunities requiring specific language capabilities.

Profile Completion Criteria:

• At least 1 language skill
• Each language skill has proficiency

Profile - Professional Experience

Are assignments and positions indicated?

Impact: Professional experience is key in Whoz for the not only to provide a better view of a talent's experience, but when linked with relevant skills, Whoz calculates an XPS score based on the use of that skill in the professional experience. If there is no XPS for a skill, it means that the skill is not linked to professional experience.

Profile Completion Criterion: 

• At least 1 professional experience
• All professional experiences are completed (title, assignment employer, client company, location, start date, skills, description)

Do assignments and positions contain key terms and employer names?

Impact: When searching for whether a talent has worked for a given company before, the search considers all terms entered and examines the employer's and, if applicable, the client's name on a position or assignment.

Profile Completion Criterion: All professional experiences are completed (title, assignment employer, client company, location, start date, skills, description)

Do assignments and positions specify the location?

Impact: When searching for whether a talent has worked in a given country, profiles with positions or assignments in any of the entered countries are considered, based on an exact match.

Profile Completion Criterion: All professional experiences are completed (title, assignment employer, client company, location, start date, skills, description)

Are key words included in any text fields such as descriptions?

Impact: Free-text searches encompass all text on a talent profile, including custom fields on positions.

Tip: For assignments, you can generate the project context description from business credentials to which you have access rights.

Profile Completion Criterion: All professional experiences are completed (title, assignment employer, client company, location, start date, skills, description)

Profile - Education

Do the education items contain key terms in the title or description?

Impact: When searching by education in the Training/Certification/Degree field in the Casting Engine the search matches profiles where the title or description contains the indicated terms. In addition, free-text searches encompass all text on a talent profile, including custom fields on education.

Profile Completion Criteria: At least 1 education

Are the education qualifications complete?

Qualifications are a specific quality or accomplishment that makes someone suitable for a particular job or activity. 

Impact: When searching by qualifications, the search returns profiles that are an exact match. When there is a defined hierarchy for a qualification, Whoz broadens the search to those skills related to the parent qualifications.

Profile Completion Criteria: All educations have one qualification linked (no free text)

Profile - Certifications 

Do the certifications contain key terms in the title or description?

Impact: When searching by certification in the Training/Certification/Degree field in the Casting Engine the search matches profiles where the title or description contains the indicated terms. In addition, free-text searches encompass all text on a talent profile, including custom fields on certifications.

Profile Completion Criteria: At least 1 certification

Are the certification qualifications complete?

Qualifications are a specific quality or accomplishment that makes someone suitable for a particular job or activity. 

Impact: When searching by qualifications, the search returns profiles that are an exact match. When there is a defined hierarchy for a qualification, Whoz broadens the search to those skills related to the parent qualifications.

Profile Completion Criteria: All certifications have one qualification linked (no free text)

Profile - Accreditations

Do the accreditations contain key terms in the title or description?

Impact: When searching by accreditation in the Training/Certification/Degree field in the Casting Engine the search matches profiles where the title or description contains the indicated terms. In addition, free-text searches encompass all text on a talent profile, including custom fields on accreditations.

Profile Completion Criteria: At least 1 accreditation

Are the accreditation qualifications complete?

Qualifications are a specific quality or accomplishment that makes someone suitable for a particular job or activity. 

Impact: When searching by qualifications, the search returns profiles that are an exact match. When there is a defined hierarchy for a qualification, Whoz broadens the search to those skills related to the parent qualifications.

Profile Completion Criteria:

All accreditations have one qualification linked (no free text)