Using Candidate Profile
Candidate Profile stores reusable career facts you can bring into any project rewrite.
Candidate Profile is your reusable, account-level record of career evidence. You update it once, and every future project rewrite can draw on it. It is the antidote to re-typing the same context every time you apply for a role.
What belongs in Candidate Profile
- Achievements: the concrete things you did, with the outcome.
- Figures: team sizes, budgets, volumes, percentages you can defend.
- Clients or sectors, where you are permitted to name them.
- Languages you use professionally, with honest proficiency.
- Certifications and qualifications, with dates and issuing bodies.
- Professional licences where relevant.
- Career notes: context that keeps coming up in cover copy.
- Positioning preferences: the kind of role you are targeting, tone you prefer, sectors you avoid.
What not to put here
- Confidential information belonging to a previous employer or client.
- Sensitive personal data (health details, financial identifiers, ID numbers) beyond what a CV genuinely needs.
- Passwords, secrets, or third-party account details.
- Speculation about what you might do in a future role. Keep it to what you have actually done.
Two examples of strong entries
Improved customer satisfaction.
No baseline, no scope, no timeframe. Nothing for a rewrite to anchor on.
Redesigned the complaints response workflow across two support teams (12 agents). Median first response time fell from 32 hours to 6 hours over four months; escalations to the head of service dropped by roughly a third.
Specific scope, honest numbers, timeframe, and a clear before/after.
Strong communicator with senior stakeholders.
Cliché. Every CV in the world says this. It gives a rewrite nothing to work with.
Ran fortnightly written briefings for the CFO and quarterly narrative updates for the audit committee for two years, working from raw data supplied by three finance leads.
Named audiences, real cadence, real inputs. This is defensible detail.
How saved evidence supports future applications
When you start a new project, the Alignment Report and rewrite can draw on your Candidate Profile alongside the CV you upload for that role. Answers to gaps you have closed before become available immediately, without you re-typing them.
Why role-specific judgement still matters
The Profile is a library, not a template. A single achievement may need to be foregrounded for one role and left in the background for another. You decide, per project, what to emphasise; the Profile just makes sure the underlying evidence is available.
Transferable experience
Adjacent skills and cross-industry experience often live most usefully in Candidate Profile. Recording them with real detail (who you worked with, what you produced, what changed) is what lets a future Alignment Report treat them as transferable experience for a different target role, rather than as generic filler.
Privacy considerations
Candidate Profile is stored in your account. Only you, when signed in, can access it in CareerIbis. Even so, keep it to information you would be comfortable including in a professional application, the same standard you would apply to a CV you send an employer.
Profile checklist
- Every achievement includes what changed and by how much, honestly.
- Figures are ones you could defend in an interview.
- No confidential employer or client information you are not free to share.
- No sensitive personal data beyond what a CV genuinely needs.
- Positioning preferences reflect the roles you actually want.
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