How Best-Fit is Calculated

The Best-Fit feature compares the selected profile content with that of target profiles to find a list of profiles that are the closest match. You find the best fit job or person using the best-fit feature accessible from application pages.

Example: As an HR specialist, you can use the Best-Fit feature to find the person best suited for a job. The initial best-fit analysis results include a list of the profiles with the highest percentage of matching qualities. You can further narrow down the results by changing the priority of content types or individual content items. You can then view the percentage match for each content type.

Considerations for How Best-Fit Is Calculated

The best-fit analysis considers content items of only these predefined content types:

• Competencies

• Honors and awards

• Work requirements

  Note: The work requirements content type does not have content items.

• Languages

  Note: For languages, only the item Reading is considered in best-fit calculations.

• Degrees

• Memberships

• Licenses and certifications

You can use the Best-Fit feature to calculate the overall score for a target profile. The application calculates the overall best-fit score of the target profile with respect to the selected source profile based. The overall score is based on the individual score of each matching content item of the selected profile.