I understand that skills on a profile influence matches with jobs marketplace, but how do proficiencies from skill self-assessments and manager assessments factor into the matching? I may have some beginner skills on my profile; that doesn’t necessarily make me a match for a role.
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How does proficiency influence matches in the jobs marketplace?
Best answer by dkreiger
Hi
So if a skill is on your profile, the Jobs Marketplace match logic will generally treat it as a “you have this skill” signal—not “you have this skill at level X.”
Where proficiency does matter (and how manager vs. self is handled)
Skill proficiency ratings do matter most clearly in Skills Assessment → skill gaps → course recommendations:
- Skill gaps are computed using the manager assessment vs. the role benchmark proficiency; if there is no manager assessment, the system uses the self assessment value instead.
- When both exist, manager assessment takes precedence over self assessment for the purposes of these computations and downstream recommendations.
- These skill gaps and proficiency levels then influence course recommendations, including prioritizing bigger gaps and aligning recommendations to course difficulty.
Roadmap / “not yet” areas (related to your question)
If what you’re really asking is: “Can Eightfold use assessed proficiency to avoid matching me to roles where I’m only a beginner?” That’s exactly the gap you’re pointing at.
What I can confirm from our internal impact documentation is:
- Self/manager assessment is not included in Career Navigator paths today (it’s marked as planned/roadmap).
- And separately, we’ve noted that job/project matching does not currently account for proficiency (again, the “basic vs advanced German” example).
Practical implication for “beginner skills on my profile”
Because job matching does not currently use proficiency as a gate, if you keep a skill on your profile, it can still contribute to being considered a match, even if you rate yourself low, or your manager rates you low.
At the same time, Skills Assessment is still valuable because it helps make gaps visible against role benchmarks and then drives the “what should I do next?” motions (especially learning) via skill gap analysis.
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Hi
So if a skill is on your profile, the Jobs Marketplace match logic will generally treat it as a “you have this skill” signal—not “you have this skill at level X.”
Where proficiency does matter (and how manager vs. self is handled)
Skill proficiency ratings do matter most clearly in Skills Assessment → skill gaps → course recommendations:
- Skill gaps are computed using the manager assessment vs. the role benchmark proficiency; if there is no manager assessment, the system uses the self assessment value instead.
- When both exist, manager assessment takes precedence over self assessment for the purposes of these computations and downstream recommendations.
- These skill gaps and proficiency levels then influence course recommendations, including prioritizing bigger gaps and aligning recommendations to course difficulty.
Roadmap / “not yet” areas (related to your question)
If what you’re really asking is: “Can Eightfold use assessed proficiency to avoid matching me to roles where I’m only a beginner?” That’s exactly the gap you’re pointing at.
What I can confirm from our internal impact documentation is:
- Self/manager assessment is not included in Career Navigator paths today (it’s marked as planned/roadmap).
- And separately, we’ve noted that job/project matching does not currently account for proficiency (again, the “basic vs advanced German” example).
Practical implication for “beginner skills on my profile”
Because job matching does not currently use proficiency as a gate, if you keep a skill on your profile, it can still contribute to being considered a match, even if you rate yourself low, or your manager rates you low.
At the same time, Skills Assessment is still valuable because it helps make gaps visible against role benchmarks and then drives the “what should I do next?” motions (especially learning) via skill gap analysis.
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Hi
What skills (including assessed ones) clearly drive:
- Jobs Marketplace matching — match scores (Good Match / Strong Match) are generated by Eightfold AI using the full Career Hub profile, including skills.
- Project recommendations — projects surface based on an employee's current skills and skills listed in their goals (including adjacent skills).
- Career Navigator — career path recommendations factor in skills, experience, and role attributes.
- Skill gap identification → development actions — the most explicitly documented use: required-by-role skills have benchmarks, assessments surface strengths vs. gaps, and gaps drive course/project/development plan recommendations.
The key gap in the documentation:
The docs confirm that skills drive matching, but don't precisely state how much assessed proficiency ratings (the slider/score from self or manager assessments) specifically change match scores in the Jobs Marketplace or project recommendations, versus skills simply being present in the profile.
On TA specifically:
The documentation here covers Talent Management / Career Hub experiences. There's no direct statement connecting employee or manager proficiency assessments to recruiter-side TA candidate matching algorithms. That's a legitimate open question the docs don't answer.
Bottom line: Skills assessments aren't only for gap/course rec purposes, skills broadly power matching across Jobs Marketplace, projects, and Career Navigator. But whether proficiency ratings specifically (as opposed to skill presence) materially shift match scores isn't explicitly confirmed in these sources, and the TA module question remains unanswered.
I hope this is helpful.
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