Set up your profile

Your profile is how colleagues find you and understand what you do. Add a photo, a short overview, your job experience, education and projects, then your skills and certificates. The dashboard and the top bar show what is left to do.

How it works

Your profile has two parts:

• About you: your photo, a short overview, job title, job experience, education and projects. You fill these in under Profile Settings.
• What you can do: your skills, rated on the nine-step scale, and your certificates. You add these in My Skills.

Colleagues see both when they search for skills, open your profile or plan a team. Managers see it in My Circle.

Two places show what is left to do. The Dashboard lists tasks under Welcome to MuchSkills. In the top bar, a ring around the person icon fills up as you complete seven steps: Profile Picture, About me, Job Experience, Job Title, and at least one skill in Job Focus, Soft Skills and Technical skills. Click it to see Steps completed. The ring disappears once all seven are done.

Steps

About you

1. Open Profile Settings. Click your photo at the top right and choose Profile Settings. The menu across the page has Profile, Teams, Experience, Education, Project History, Account and Retrospective.
2. Add a photo. Under Profile Details, click Upload Image. A clear photo of your face helps people recognise you in search results and the org chart.
3. Write your overview. In Overview, write a few sentences about what you do and what you are good at. Think of it as your elevator pitch. It shows as About Me on your profile.
4. Add your job title, city and links. Fill in Job title and City. Under Elsewhere, add links such as your portfolio or LinkedIn. Under Articles & reference links, paste anything you have written or presented and press Enter after each link.

Changes on this page save when you leave a field. You see Your settings were updated.

Profile Settings.

5. Check your team details. Click Teams. Under your organisation, check Direct Manager, Department, Location and Assigned tags. These decide who sees you in My Circle and how you appear in filters.

Your history

6. Add your job experience. Click Experience, then Add Job. Choose + Add job experience manually, or Linkedin Import to bring in the roles from your LinkedIn profile. For each role, add the Role title, the dates and a short Role summary. For your current job, tick I am currently working in this role.
7. Add your education. Click Education, then Add education, or use Linkedin Import. Add the School Name, Degree, dates and a line about what you studied. To attach a diploma, click Upload file (PDF or JPG).
8. Add your projects. Click Project History, then Add project. Fill in Project Title, Client (or tick No external client), Website and Project Role & Contributions. Under Team Members, add colleagues you worked with. Click Save.

Your skills and certificates

9. Add and rate your skills. Click My Skills in the top menu. Work through each category on the left, for example Job Focus, Soft Skills, Technical skills and any category your company has added. Click + Add/Edit, add your skills and rate each one. Rate your skills explains the nine-step scale.
10. Use presets if you have them. If your organisation has prepared skill lists for your role, My Skills › Add Skills from Presets is the quickest way through. See Add skills from presets.
11. Add your certificates. Click My Skills › My Certifications. See Add your certifications.
12. Finish the dashboard tasks. Click Dashboard. The tasks under Welcome to MuchSkills cover skills (the counter asks for at least 40), profile picture, department, job title, location, work experience, education and one goal. Each one is ticked when it is done.

Public or private

13. Decide who can see your profile. Your profile is always visible inside your organisation. To share it outside, click the profile visibility icon in the top bar and switch on Make my profile public and sharable. Click Share to copy your public link. To undo it, switch to Make my profile private and visible only to my team.

The icon only shows when your organisation allows public profiles. The switch works once your email is verified and your profile is complete.

Check it worked

• Click your photo and choose View Profile. Your photo, About Me, job experience, education, projects, certificates and skills show.
• The progress ring in the top bar has gone, because all seven steps are complete.
• The dashboard shows Skills or certifications updated with today's date or a recent one.

Tips

• Pin what matters most. On View Profile, Job Focus is pinned by default. Use the arrow on any skill card and choose Pin to the top to lead with, for example, Technical skills.
• Bubbles show your focus. In categories shown as bubbles, click, tap or drag a bubble to make it bigger and show what your focus really is. The others get smaller to make room.
• Write for a colleague, not a recruiter. A short, specific overview ("I build data pipelines in Python and help teams move to the cloud") is more useful than a list of adjectives.
• Keep it current. Update after a project, a course or a new certificate. Your manager sees how fresh your profile is.
• Do not leave your organisation's team. Leave team in Profile Settings › Teams deletes all data relating to that organisation from your profile. If something is wrong, correct it instead.

Troubleshooting