Building Skill Profiles

On SkillsEngine you can effortlessly create comprehensive skill profiles tailored to your unique needs. Follow this simple guide to start building skill profiles today.

Step 1: Choose Your Starting Point

You can begin creating your skill profile using one of the following methods:

1. Convert Into Skills

Enter any unstructured text you want to convert into skills. This text can be from a job posting, a LinkedIn profile, a resume, a course description, or anything else you want to use as a basis for the profile. To learn more about our text conversion process, see: Convert Text Into Skills.

For all skills-related text, SkillsEngine uses AI to generate a custom skill profile using our extensive library. Once the profile has been generated, you can select and deselect skills before saving the profile to your account.

NOTE: This feature is AI driven and results can vary. Your input is invaluable in helping us refine and enhance this feature for a seamless experience.

For text sources that are less clearly skills-related, the system will attempt to offer the three (3) closest existing template profile matches from within our extensive skill library. Select one or more of these suggestions and hit next to start building your profile.

2. Search

Search a term, phrase or occupation and browse through a list of related template profiles and skill sets. You can then add any of them to your cart and use them to create your own profile.

To learn more about customizing your profile, see: Editing a Skill Profile

3. Start from Scratch

While signed in, click the “Tools” dropdown next to the search bar in the navigation and select “Build a New Profile” to get started building your own profile from scratch

You can then use the “Add Skill Sets” section to search to add skill sets to your profile.

Updated 7/18/2025, 1:39pm CST