Using your work or school email on Talentsky verifies your association with your organization. For example, tom@xyz-agency.com would get a verified badge and appear under XYZ Agency’s page on Talentsky, found under Mentors > Organizations. This also makes it easier to connect with your colleagues and request ratings from relevant people.

To update your email

• Go to your Profile
• Click on Settings > Email Settings
• Under Professional Email, click on Update
• Enter your work or school email and click Update Email
• Check your inbox for an email from Talentsky, and click that verification link within 24 hours

Completing your basic profile helps you stand out so other users can understand who you are.

To complete your profile:

• Go to your Profile > Settings
• On the right, you’ll see a list of pending actions in the Profile Completeness card.
• Complete these pending actions in your profile settings. Pro tip: On a desktop browser, you can click each blue hyperlink in the list to quickly navigate to each setting update.
• Once your profile is 100% complete, you can dismiss the profile completeness card.

Share your Profile link to help others find you on Talentsky. This helps you connect with people you know and grow your professional network.

To share your profile:

• Go to your Profile
• Look for the Share your profile box on the top right
• Click the Copy Link icon
• Paste the link in an email or chat window

Posting achievements builds up your skills library on Talentsky and helps others understand your career on an ongoing basis. This allows you to show your talents, see your skill gaps, and compare your work to mentors’ work at the skill level.

To post a new achievement:

• Go to your profile
• Click Post Achievement
• Select a suggested achievement title, click Suggest more, or search our achievement library. If you can’t find your achievement while searching our library, you can click Create this Achievement.
• Customize the title and description, and select the start and end dates.
• Select up to 5 skills you used in this achievement. Check out our suggested skills, or search our skills library. If you can’t find your skill while searching our library, you can click “Add it to your profile”.

When you have an achievement rated by two or more colleagues, the skills you used in that achievement will appear on your profile under Skills. Only rated skills allow you to compare your skills to Mentors, helping you spot careers you’d never considered and find out what skills you need to work on to increase your relevance in the future. Skill levels are rated on a descriptive scale (Apprentice, Progressing, Advanced, Expert).

To request ratings when creating a new achievement:

• Go to your profile and create an achievement
• You’ll automatically be prompted to ask relevant people to rate your work.
• Select people from the list of suggested people, or search by name.
• To request ratings from someone not on Talentsky, enter their email to invite them.

To request ratings on an existing achievement:

• Go to your profile
• Click the three dots at the top right of the Achievement
• Click Tag People
• Select people from the list of suggested people, or search by name.
• To request ratings from someone not on Talentsky, enter their email to invite them.

Sharing your achievements is a great way to share your career activity.

To share your Achievement:

• Go to your Achievement on your Profile
• Click the three dots in upper right corner of the Achievement
• Click Copy link, or share on Facebook or Twitter

Example: Sharing to Facebook:

As a Mentor, you help others understand which skills are most important for your current role, allows people to compare their skills to yours, and inspires them to up-skill. To be a Mentor on Talentsky, you’ll need at least 5 rated achievements on your profile.

To reach Mentor status:

• Complete your profile
• Post 5+ rated Achievements
• Click Go to my Mentor Page
• Privacy Settings
• Click Public > Save
• On your Mentor page, toggle achievements on or off to choose which ones are relevant to your current role.

Your Mentor Page followers receive updates when you share a new achievement to your Mentor page. This helps your followers understand what skills are vital in a role like yours, and provides visibility into your evolving skill set.

To invite your Profile followers to your Mentor page:

• Go to your Profile > Mentor page > view
• Click Invite People
• Click Select all > Send Invites
• You can also share via facebook, twitter, message, or copy link here in the invite screen.

If your organization has purchased a pool of Mentor Premium licenses and one is available, you can claim one. With this license, you’ll have better insight into the skill set of your followers.

To claim your Mentor Premium license, click on the Claim Now button which can be found in 5 places:

• Home
• Mentor Page
• Mentor Page - Achievements Tab
• Mentor Page - Pipeline tab
• Mentor Page - Analytics tab

Profile

Mentors (main) or Home in the right pane (on desktop computers)

Your Mentor page in the Achievements tab

Your Mentor page in the Pipeline tab

Your Mentor page in the Analytics tab

On "Claim now" click, a modal will appear where you can claim the free Premium license

A Premium license gives you visibility into the followers of your Mentor page, helping you make smart decisions about the content you share and the connections you make on Talentsky.

To upgrade your Mentor Premium license, click on the Upgrade Now button which can be found in 5 places:

• Home
• Mentor Page
• Mentor Page - Achievements Tab
• Mentor Page - Pipeline tab
• Mentor Page - Analytics tab

Home

Profile

Your Mentor page in the Achievements tab

Your Mentor page in the Pipeline tab

Your Mentor page in the Analytics tab