Overview

Eightfold’s Talent Intelligence Platform provides rich insights into an individual's skills. These insights, appearing as ‘nudges’ on candidate profiles and the Pipeline page. They help recruiters and talent professionals make better decisions by giving a complete view of a person's skills.

Validated Skills

Validated Skills are those skills that the Eightfold platform has explicitly confirmed an individual possesses. This confirmation is based on rigorous data analysis, skill calibration, or assessment processes.

• How they’re determined: Validated Skills are confirmed using evidence gathered from resumes, job history, manager ratings, self-assessments, or other structured data sources. The system may also compare an individual’s skills against those commonly held by others in similar roles within the same organization to confirm if the skill is typical for the role. Skills extracted by AI models or Large Language Models (LLMs) undergo additional filtering and normalization to ensure accuracy.
• What they mean for you: Validated Skills are crucial for downstream analytics, such as resume parsing, skill gap analysis, career navigation, training needs assessments, and matching algorithms for recruiting or internal movement. They're reliable for talent management decisions and workflow automation.
• Example: If an employee's profile lists ‘Python’ as a skill, and past roles, project descriptions, and‌ manager endorsements corroborate this, Eightfold marks ‘Python’ as a Validated Skill for that employee.

Likely Skills

Likely Skills are skills that an individual is expected to have based on AI-driven inference, even if they aren't explicitly listed in their profile. These aren't** **self-reported or directly validated through third-party evidence.

• How they’re determined: Eightfold’s platform uses deep learning to analyze a person’s career trajectory and compare it to others in similar positions. Skills are inferred based on the statistical likelihood that people in similar roles and career paths have those skills. This means that if other people with similar experience also have a certain skill, it is inferred as a Likely Skill. A skill is considered likely if it isn't** **present in the individual's profile but is present among others in the same organization in similar roles.
• What they mean for you: Likely Skills provide insights into abilities a person probably possesses, enabling more holistic talent assessments. They help you surface hidden potential and enrich candidate profiles for better matching between people and roles.
• Benefit: They're especially valuable when candidates understate their skills or omit relevant keywords in resumes.

Skills to Validate

Skills to Validate refer to skills that are acknowledged in a candidate's profile but require further verification against a broader set of data. Specifically, this involves checking how these skills compare to employees in similar roles within the same organization.

• How they’re determined: The skill is present in the individual's profile. However, it isn't** **present among others in the same organization in similar roles. Eightfold checks if these skills are common among peers performing similar tasks.
• What they mean for you: This category indicates that while the skill is listed, it might be unusual or rare for the specific role or peer group, prompting a need for more context or review by you. It provides additional context for recruiters or managers to review.
• Example: If the skill Kubernetes’ appears on a profile but is rarely present in peer profiles for the same job and lacks corroborative evidence, it might be flagged as a Skill to Validate.

Missing Skills

Missing Skills are those skills that a job or position has identified as required but aren't recognized as present on a candidate’s profile during the matching and calibration process.

• How they’re determined: Eightfold determines Missing Skills by comparing the set of skills required for a position with the set of skills extracted and normalized from the candidate’s profile data (such as resumes and experience). If a required skill isn't** **found on the candidate’s profile, and is also not present among others in the same organization in similar roles, the system lists it under Missing Skills.
• What they mean for you: The designation of Missing Skills may affect the candidate's match score for the job. This directly impacts how candidates are ranked and highlighted in match reports and user interfaces.
• Consideration: A skill can be designated as missing either because it's truly absent or due to limitations in skill extraction, normalization, and synonym recognition.