What’s your Score? Decoding your number

So, people are always asking us, “What’s a good score?” It’s a little like that awkward moment when you’re into someone and that fateful moment strikes again: “What’s your number?” The question here is, what do you do with that?

When it comes to your Careerscore, the strictly quantitative, market-driven aspect of our score formula stacks your professional merit up against that of your peers.Scores range from 100 to 1,000, where less experienced professionals are closer to 100 and veteran industry leaders approach 1,000.

Let’s take a closer look at how we arrive at those numbers. Basically, we have collected millions of resumes and job postings, as well as placement data from recruiting partners, all of which help us understand the supply and demand forces that drive the labor markets and determine who gets placed in which position.

We have a lot of relevant information that tells us why people hire the people they do for a given job. Then, because we’re so awesome, we take this data and group resumes into several experience tiers that are commonly recognized by the job market (Entry-level professionals, Junior, Middle, Senior, and Masters), which gives us a model for the individual most likely to get placed in a position at any of those levels.

Your individual Careerscore is essentially a reflection of which experience tier your qualifications most closely match (said qualifications include education, work experience, and skill proficiency), compared alongside your peers who are also in the same tier. Remember, this doesn’t merely mean that you’re being stacked up against others; it means that your score is indicative of where you’re at in your career. Just starting out? Great! That means that while your score might be low, there’s still so much you’re about to learn and so much farther you can go. Go for it! And in case you don’t have a Careerscore yet, what are you waiting for?Sign-Up Now!