How It Works: Employment Profiles

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On this page: Creating and Editing Your Employment Profile • Searching • Viewing, Printing, and Sharing • Finding Employment

Creating and Editing Your Employment Profile

The employment profile is your résumé, visible to other citizens here. On your dashboard, there we be either a Create Profile or an Edit Profile button, depending on whether you have a profile established yet. There is also a My Employment Profile entry in the menu when you are logged on.

The employment profile itself is divided into three sections, and the main edit page serves as a menu for them. If you have a profile established, there is a button labeled View Your Employment Profile which will show you your profile the way other users will see it.

General Information

The General Information section of the Employment Profile contains the following fields:

• Continent (required): The continent on which you most frequently reside
• Region (required): A smaller geographic area within the continent you selected. This is free-form text; describe it as narrowly or broadly as you like.
• Three Yes/No Questions: If you are actively seeking work, check the “I am currently seeking employment” box; if you are interested in full-time or remote work, check those boxes. Leaving them unchecked implies “No”.
• Professional Biography (required): Your description of what type of job you are seeking, an overview of your professional history, etc. This is the main résumé portion of the profile. It supports Markdown formatting, which allows you to add headings, bold/emphasized text, links, etc.
• Experience: This Markdown block will be placed at the bottom of the employment profile, below your skills and employment history. It is optional (as are skills and employment history). This area can be omitted; used to display skills or employment history in a different way than this application provides; or used to provide a closing appeal, the text “References available upon request”, or any other information you want displayed at the bottom of your profile.
• Visibility (required):
  • Hidden will restrict your profile to yourself only; this can be used while you are initially building your profile, or to remove your profile from search results without deleting it.
  • Private (the default) will restrict your profile to logged-on users of this community.
  • Anonymous will allow your continent, region, and skills to be displayed in public searches, without linking to your profile or disclosing any additional information.
  • Public will allow public users to search, view, and print your profile, just as you or logged-on users can. It also allows you to share the link to your employment profile with the general public.

Skills

The Skills section allows you to record skills you have obtained. Each skill has an associated “Notes” field, which can be used to document your level of proficiency, years practiced, etc. Skills will be sorted alphabetically, and displayed in the profile just below the “Professional Biography”.

Note that if you select “Anonymous” visibility, what you enter in these fields will visible in public search results. In this case, be sure to omit any identifying information from either field.

Employment History

The Employment History section allows you to record a chronological listing of your previous or current employment. This section is sorted descendingly (most recent first) by end date, with ongoing jobs listed first. If any entries are present, they will be displayed below the list of skills (or below the “Professional Biography”, if no skills are present).

Each employment history entry consists of the following fields:

• Employer (required): The name of the entity by which you were employed
• Title or Position (required): The title or job position you held with the employer, usually the most recent or senior
• Start Date (required): The date you began this period of employment. While you will see a full calendar, only the month and year will be displayed on the employment profile, so you may select any day within the month.
• End Date: The date you ended this period of employment. As with the “Start Date” field, it will only display month and year. Also, if you still have this job, leave this blank, and “to Present” will be displayed for the end date.
• Description: An optional description of your employment. This field supports Markdown, and will appear below the employer, position, and dates if present.

Searching Employment Profiles

Search Criteria

The Job Seekers page and its search form is the same whether there is a user logged on or not; however, the results are different. There are three sections to the search form. Continent will select profiles from the selected continent, while Seeking Remote Work? will select profiles based whether the citizen has selected remote work in their profile. Text Search will search several aspects of the employment profile for matches; it is case-insensitive and will match using English stemming rules (ex. searching for “force” will match words like “force”, “forced”, or “forcing”).

If more than one field has a value selected, profiles must match all of those selections to be returned. Additionally, “Hidden” profiles will never be returned in searches, and if no user is logged on, only “Public” and “Anonymous” profiles will be considered as candidates for search results.

Search Results

If the visibility of the profile allows you to view it, the first column will contain a View link. The remaining columns will display other attributes of the employment profile. In public search results for profiles with “Anonymous” visibility, the last column of the search results will show the citizen’s skills.

Viewing, Printing, and Sharing Employment Profiles

An employment profile can be viewed via the View link in search results, and logged-on users can find this view via the View Your Employment Profile button on the My Employment Profile page. The profile view page displays the following information in order:

• Display Name (with a tag if the citizen is actively seeking employment)
• Continent / Region
• Contact Information (only public items if viewing publicly)
• Remote / Full-Time selections
• Professional Biography
• Skill list
• Employment History
• Experience

If a user is logged on and is viewing their own profile, there will be an Edit Your Profile button at the bottom of the page. Either way, there will also be a View Print Version button that will open a printable version in a new browser tab. This version is constructed the same way as the previous page; however, contact information will be fully displayed rather than linked. There will be no menu, header, or footer on the page, but there will be a Print button at the bottom of the page, which will not show on the actual printed version.

Both the view and print versions may be shared by copying the full URL from the browser’s address bar. When using this URL, “Public” visibility profiles will display for anyone, while “Anonymous” and “Private” visibility profiles will require a citizen to log on first. “Hidden” visibility profiles will return a “page not found” error for anyone other than the citizen to which they belong.

Finding Employment

If your profile indicates that you are seeking employment, and you secure employment, you will want to update that (and – congratulations!). From both the Dashboard and the General Information Employment Profile pages, you will see a link that encourages you to tell us about it. Click either of those links, and you will be brought to a page that allows you to indicate whether your employment actually came from hosting your employment profile on Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and gives you a place to write about the experience. These stories are only viewable by logged-on citizens, so feel free to use as much (or as little) identifying information as you’d like. You can also submit this page with all the fields blank; in that case, your “Seeking Employment” flag is cleared, and the blank story is recorded.

As a validated user, you can also view others’ success stories from both their employment profiles or job listings. Clicking Success Stories in the sidebar will display a list of all the stories that have been recorded. If there is a story to be read, there will be a link to read it; if you submitted the story, there will also be an Edit link.