The Importance of your Appeal Score and How to Boost it

The Importance of Appeal

Your appeal score is a key measure of your professional profile’s strength and credibility. A higher appeal score increases your visibility, showcases your expertise, and demonstrates your commitment and reliability to potential employers. Optimizing your score ensures you’re making the best possible impression—opening up new opportunities and helping you stand out in competitive markets.

Who can see my Appeal Score

Just you. Your appeal and pay history are all private. Pay history is used to strengthen our predictive model and is never shared. Appeal Score can only be seen by you as a feedback mechanism to show the strength of your portfolio. In a nutshell it describes your overall likelihood of finding a job on the platform.

Tips and Tricks to Maximize Your Appeal Score

1. Complete and Enhance Your Bio (5 points)

- Make sure your bio exists and goes beyond five characters. Craft a concise, compelling summary that reflects your experience and value.

2. Highlight Your Skills (1-10 points)

- Add as many verified skills as possible:

- 1 skill = 1 point

- 2 skills = 2 points

- 3 skills = 3 points

- 4 skills = 8 points

- 5 or more skills = 10 points

- Focus on relevant, up-to-date skills in your field to maximize impact when people are viewing your profile.

3. Set Realistic Pay Expectations (Up to 40 points)

- We are building out an advanced market rate prediction model so this is a current work in progress. 

- Set your pay expectations and keep them at or below market rates to earn the full 40 points.

- If your pay expectations exceed market rate by more than 10%, be aware of the penalty:

- 0-10% above: no penalty

- Above 10% the penalty increases progressively. There comes a point where you would be too overpriced to reliably find work.

- If you find the predicted market rate is vastly underrepresenting your unique skill set be sure to drop as line so we can refine the model.

4. Showcase Work Experience (5 points)

- Add at least one work experience entry. Keep it updated and relevant to reinforce your background.

5. List Educational Credentials (5 points)

- Include your highest or most relevant education. Even a single entry can contribute the full points.

6. Add Relevant Projects (Up to 20 points)

- List successful, recent projects:

- 5 points per project, up to 4 projects for the full 20 points

- Highlight outcomes and responsibilities for extra impact.

- Ensure you add collaborators to unlock the Trust points described lower down.

7. Display Certifications (5 points)

- Share at least one professional certification. This adds credibility—and scores all available points in this category.

8. Grow Your Connections (Up to 10 points)

- The more professional connections you have, the better:

- 1 point per connection, maxing at 10

- Network actively to hit the top end of this range.

9. Build Trust (Up to 10 points)

- Earn trust marks from other professionals or businesses:

- 2 points per trust, capping at 10 points

- Ask satisfied clients and partners to recognize your reliability and skill.

Optimizing Your Profile

The best scores are achieved when every profile section is completed thoughtfully and kept current. The maximum possible appeal score is 100 points, even though the theoretical total is 110—this cap ensures a level playing field.

When Your Appeal Score Is Calculated

Your score updates automatically any time you revise key parts of your profile, like your bio, work experience, education, or other elements listed above. Make regular updates to reflect your growth and achievements—this keeps your score at its highest and your profile competitive.

Keep these strategies in mind to elevate your professional presence and ensure you’re getting the recognition and opportunities you deserve.

Disclaimer

We are currently collecting wage data and building out the world's largest collection of independent wage data for the skilled trades. Every extra data point will make our predictive model more reliable. We ask everyone to add wage data for every experience level to help strengthen the model.