Hiring on skills and experience
Candidates are more than a CV, and skills are more than a list of words
SkillsValley reads a candidate the way an experienced recruiter would. Two questions decide the ranking: what this person can do, and whether they have done the job before. Both answers come with the reason attached.
For the teams that hire, and for the people they hire.
The candidate never listed React. Four skills they did list cover part of it.
Skill relations
We know how skills relate to each other
React needs JavaScript. Mentoring needs communication. Angular replaced AngularJS. Relations like these are written down and kept, so a requirement can be covered by a skill nobody typed into a search box.
A shorter arrow is a closer relation. Scroll sideways to see both halves.
How a match is read
Three things the recruiter sees
01
The skill they asked for
Held outright, at the level they hold it. The arrow is the whole story.
02
The skills that sit next to it
One candidate can cover several requirements they never named. Each arrow carries the relation that earned it.
03
A requirement covered through shared ground
React is a kind of Frontend Development. Micro Frontends is part of Frontend Development. The React seat is part-covered, and the recruiter can see by what.
Finding the right candidate has nuance in it. A 1:1 skill comparison cannot hold that nuance. A person is read the way an experienced recruiter would.
Side by side
One candidate. Two readings.
Mara has run Docker in production for four years. Kubernetes is the must-have on the role. The word Kubernetes appears nowhere on Mara's profile.
Candidate
Mara Lindqvist
Staff Engineer · Stockholm
Job post
Platform Engineer
Nordbank AS · Stockholm
Basic AI powered ATS
SkillsValley
Matches the words
Dropped on the must-have
Matches the relation
Ranked, with the reason attached
Nobody ever reads her
Screening
A recruiter reads the reason and moves Mara on
The move, and the reason given for it, land in the candidate's decision log.
Which side of the table are you on?
The same relations run both ways. One page is written for the people hiring. The other is written for the person they are looking for.
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Post a role and read the pile with the reasons already written. Or keep one profile and be found for the work you have actually done.