SmartMe Profile — The neo-CV to show where you are headed, not what you did

Hey Product Hunters! At PitchMe we are passionate about getting top talent in front of the leading tech companies across Europe. That’s why we launched the SmartMe profile, our industry-leading talent profiling solution that simplifies the job search process and gives you insights into your real skills. 🤔 The problem we are trying to solve CVs are outdated and may lead to unconscious bias. Furthermore, today’s best candidates are those who are able to adjust quickly to changing demands of employers in non-linear ways that cannot be presented on a traditional resume. In such a shifting, dynamic job market, where reskilling and upskilling are fundamental, how can you represent your whole experience, skillset and learnings? 💡 The Solution SmartMe profile: a skills-based, holistic profile based on hard and soft skills, which showcases candidates’ true ability to excel in a job, while ensuring their cultural fit in a certain company. Taking a data-driven approach to candidate profiling and enriching their information with secondary sources such as social media, portfolios and blogs, SmartMe allows for a more accurate match between a position and a candidate. With the SmartMe profile candidates only show their skills, not their gender, race or age, drastically reducing bias in the recruitment process. Our SmartMe profile is also particularly beneficial for career-shifters, since it helps them to be considered based on their skillset and avoid being rejected as a part of initial screening due to their non-linear background. All the data regarding digital traits is collected pending candidates’ permission and approval, and therefore in full compliance with GDPR regulations. 💪 A SmartMe profile to rule them all: hiring, upskilling & reskilling The SmartMe profile gives candidates valuable information on their skillset: our algorithm shows them not only the jobs they are perfect for, but also how they can develop their career by learning new skills, encouraging them to upskill and improve their employability. Adapting to a changing skills demand, especially after COVID, helps job seekers to navigate the volatility of job markets. For employers, a candidate’s SmartMe profile instead of a CV in the recruitment process provides a better way to hire. SmartMe allows employers to transition towards a more skills-based, smarter way of hiring. This dramatically reduces hiring inequality by focusing directly on competencies instead of on bad proxies that disadvantage non-traditional candidates, like degrees, ‘prestigious’ experiences, and shared backgrounds.

Guys, congrats on the launch! I like you've added chess.com to the list of social platforms. I would suggest adding Producthunt as well!

I loved working on the product - it is a great tool especially for those with a non-linear background. People who have shifted careers are often rejected at the initial screening step, but the SmartMe profile turns that career change into a strength!

It is important for employers to see a real candidate, real skills. To be able to read information quickly and make a decision. It is especially interesting to work on the candidate side of the interaction. It improves my own skills =)

This is interesting. Evaluating it right now but I’m curious why there’s no option for Twitter but there is one for facebook.

Awesome product! Especially I love the soft skills part – cultural fit is equally crucial as professional skills for both employees and employers. And it eliminates the outdated CV problem - everything is always in sync. Good job!

?makers you guys have built an awesome tool

Loved the concept! I have always felt that our profiles get restricted a lot to just the years and positions worked in. There is a lot more information that can be drawn from other social platforms. Looking at it from the employer's point of view, this would provide a lot more complete and wider view of the candidate's performance and capability. Though what I found a bit irritating in the product was I had to still fill in a lot more things, and spend time perfecting my CV making it more complete (despite of the information available in a proper format on my LinkedIn). So a lot of work to be done! but keep up the good work! can go a long way. A few questions to ponder? where do you plan to take this? is it just to make another LinkedIn? Any active measures planned to keep the user experience crisp like it is now?

Looks nice! As a freelancer I’m always in search of the instruments to enhance my CV and match with a precise working task!

This is the most complete app I've found, it's basically replaced my CV! It identified soft skills I hadn't even recognized myself! Would definitely recommend!... Special thanks to the developers!

I love this concept. People are more than their CV and this offers candidates a good opportunity to showcase the range of one's skills, and employers to find the right candidate based on those skills.

Oh, my, let's get rid of those CVs, please!:) Great idea, guys. Getting the data from the numerous sources, which you have to maintain, is especially useful and convenient.

Great integration of all the personal data and web-profiles. Thank you, keep on the great work. Awesome product!

I have a very multidisciplinary profile, which is hard to showcase on a regular CV. It was great to see how this tool efficiently joins together different sources and creates a profile that you can confidently share with companies. It really got both my soft and hard skills well, I am impressed. I recommend using this to those, like me, who have a generalist profile!

Great approach! Advancing in your career should NEVER be about your past only. It is much more important to look at attitudes, skills and the generalist approach someone can bring to the table! Love this idea, especially the aspect of facilitating the process through AI!

The idea is simple, but completely logical at its core. So I think it should work! It will be interesting to follow the project…

It's always such a pain to find real talent for your team. Thanks for doing this work for all our community.

Great summary of my skills, experience and career expectations. Was quite easier build my profile. I have used other platform where I had to reply long survey to identify my skills. I love that I could included all my portfolio and repository. Amazing design, nice job guys 😉

Great idea!!! As a hiring manager I can tell you that the information people have in their resume is not all we look for when selecting a candidate for a role. Being able to have more insight into the candidate from the start would be a time saver! Wish you all the best!

LinkedIn is already a neo-CV! As I understand this thing is the "profile" and "hiring" parts of LinkedIn + auto import from git. Which doesn't necessarily reflect 1-on-1 to skills. And only is for developers and designers (which could be leveraged as an advantage). In my opinion, other integrations are not that game-changing.