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Career readiness score

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A hint for you, not an employer's assessment. The career readiness score follows methodology r2. It shows how ready your profile is for the job market right now and what would make it stronger. Employers never see it.

What the score is made of

The score is a number from 0 to 100. Every point is explained on the "Career readiness" page.

  • Profile — 20 points: how complete your profile is;
  • Market skills — 20 points: whether you have the skills vacancies in your fields ask for most; a verified skill counts at the higher of its two levels — the one in your profile or the verified one — so verifying never costs points;
  • Experience — 15 points: months of work and internships, projects, certificates and awards;
  • Languages — 15 points: Uzbek, Russian and English, with B2 as the target;
  • Activity — 10 points: applications and profile updates in the last 30 days, a downloaded CV;
  • Verified skills — 10 points: the share of the skills most in demand in your fields that have a Platform test and that you have verified; only skills whose test an expert has reviewed count, and the more vacancies ask for a skill, the more it weighs;
  • Route progress — 10 points: how far you have come toward your target profession. Each tier — foundation, core and advanced — is an equal share, and key skills weigh twice. A step confirmed by a Platform test or course counts in full, a level stated in your profile counts as half, and a level below the target in proportion. A step you mark as learned without proof shows on your route but does not count in the score.

Two components only ever add

Verified skills and route progress only ever raise the score. The points you have not earned in them yet count at your average over the first five components. For example, if the first five are 60 % complete on average and you have not chosen a goal, the route's 10 points count as 6.

The same applies when a component does not apply:

  • verified skills, if the Platform has no reviewed test yet for the skills in demand in your fields;
  • route progress, if you have not chosen a target profession.

So a new skill in your profile, a new goal or a new Platform test never lowers your score, and every step you take and every skill you verify raises it.

What never counts

  • Consents — for example, to show your profile to employers or to let a university see your data: the score never penalizes privacy.
  • Experience points (XP), badges and streaks.
  • The readiness self-assessment — it is a self-report, shown separately.
  • Career test results.

How the score changes

  • The score is recomputed when you open the page, and once a week — on Sunday evening, Tashkent time — a weekly value is saved so you can see the trend.
  • Tips are ordered by how many points they would add: for example, "verify a skill", "take the next step of your route" or "add your language level".
  • Methodology r2 applies from the week that began on 19 October 2026; earlier weeks were scored by r1. On the "Career readiness" page the trend and the history show weeks of one methodology only, so a change of rules never looks like your own rise or fall.

Who sees the score

  • You.
  • Your university — only with your separate consent to that university seeing your data; it uses the score for career support, not for decisions about your studies.
  • In aggregate statistics for universities, the score appears only as aggregates over groups of at least 10 people. Values of the earlier methodology r1 and the new r2 are shown as separate series and are never mixed.
  • Employers never see the score, and it is never used to select candidates.

Limitations

  • The score rates the profile on the Platform, not the person: experience missing from the profile is not counted.
  • The component weights are the team's decision; we will check them on the pilot's data.