Hiring on skills and experience
The right people, in the right roles, at the right time
SkillsValley reads a candidate the way an experienced recruiter would: validated skills, relevant experience, location, and salary expectations, ranked with the reason attached. Hiring gets fast, so strong candidates show up early and none slip through. Built for the skills economy.
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A job post for a Senior Frontend Engineer in Zürich points at three ranked candidates. Mara scores 96% and matches on skills, relevant experience, salary, location and start date. Jon scores 68% and misses on salary and start date. Ilse scores 41% and misses on skills, experience and location.
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. Angular is a kind of Frontend Development. The React seat is part-covered, and the recruiter can see by what.
How SkillsValley works
A candidate's skills and work experience count directly toward the match score. A recruiter can check each skill against the context and evidence the candidate provides.
What the candidate fills in
Elin
Web Developer
Skills
7 skillsWork experience
Web Developer
Nordbank AS · Stockholm · 2022 – now
What the recruiter sees
Job post
Full-stack Engineer
Required skills
Screening2
Elin
Worked 4 years in a similar role
Interview2
Elin · skills
Docker
- Using it now at Nordbank AS, as Web Developer
- Holds the Docker Certified Associate certificate
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 applicant, three readings
Elin applied for a Full-stack Engineer post at Nordbank. The post asks for four skills and four years in the role. Each column below answers the same five lines.
| What the post asks for | A keyword ATS | A job board | SkillsValley |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kubernetesmust-have | Word not found. Applicant dropped. | Not in her skill list. | Dockerleads intoKubernetes Partly covered. Four years, across two jobs. |
| TypeScript | Word not found. | Not in her skill list. | ReactrequiresTypeScript Partly covered. |
| PostgreSQL | Word found. | In her skill list. | Held. Used in both roles she lists. |
| CI/CD | Word not found. | Not in her skill list. | GitHub Actionsis a kind ofCI/CD Covered. |
| Four years in the roleFull-stack Engineer, or a role the recruiter counts | Adds up every job on the CV. Twelve years. | Takes the total the applicant typed. Twelve years. | Web Developeris a relevant role Frontend Developeris a specialisation ofWeb Developer Six years in a similar role. |
| What the recruiter is shown | Skill match ? Experience 12 years every job, related or not | Skill match ? Experience 12 years as the applicant typed | Skill match 74% of the post's skill list Experience 6 years of relevant experience in roles counted for the post |
The same six applicants
Forty people applied for the post. The six below appear in all three columns. Each system reports its own kind of number, and the two other systems report more years than SkillsValley for every applicant.
A keyword ATS
Counts how many of the four skill words appear in the CV. Adds up every job for the years.
- Elin1/412
- Priya1/49
- Jonas2/48
- Ana2/414
- Marcus3/411
- Tomas1/47
A job board
Turns the same word count into a percentage. Takes the years total the applicant typed.
- Marcus75%11
- Ana50%14
- Jonas50%8
- Tomas25%7
- Priya25%9
- Elin25%12
SkillsValley
Counts related skills in part, and counts only the years spent in roles the post counts.
- ElinBest skill match74%6
- Priya71%2
- Jonas68%3
- Marcus57%1
- AnaMost relevant experience52%9
- Tomas46%3
Marcus shows what a word count rewards. A job board puts Marcus first at 75%, because Marcus typed three of the four words. Marcus has one year in a role the post counts. Ana shows what a blind year count rewards. A keyword ATS reports fourteen years for Ana. Nine of the fourteen were spent in a role the post counts.
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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