Today marks a new stage for MySkillsSpace. The platform is now available and was built around a simple idea: a professional profile should primarily show what you can do, what you have done and how you can help others. We do not want it to become just another version of a traditional CV.
Why did we build MySkillsSpace?
Professionals already have many places where they can present their work, but that information is usually fragmented. A CV sits in one place, a portfolio in another, skills somewhere else, while specific services and preferred ways of working often need to be explained from scratch in every new conversation.
MySkillsSpace is designed to bring those elements into one professional space. A profile can become a professional identity, career history, portfolio, skills overview and a place for presenting specific services.
For specialists and the people looking for them
For specialists
- A professional profile in one place
- Experience and career history
- Skills and professional strengths
- Portfolio and examples of real work
- Your own professional services
- Control over profile visibility
- A way to build a professional presence and start conversations
For employers
- Discover specialists by relevant capabilities
- Review portfolio work and experience
- Save interesting profiles and services
- Build a company profile
- Communicate directly
- Get better context before starting a conversation
- Use a dedicated Employer workspace
What can you do on MySkillsSpace?
- Build your professional profile
Add information about yourself, your experience and the way you work. Your profile should communicate more than a traditional CV.
- Showcase your skills
Organize your capabilities and highlight the areas where you have real professional experience.
- Add your portfolio
Present projects and concrete examples of your work so your experience does not end with a job description.
- Publish your services
Explain how you can help, define the scope of your service, delivery model and available collaboration terms.
- Get discovered
Your profile and published services can be discovered by people and companies looking for relevant expertise.
- Start a conversation
When a profile or service matches a real need, the next step can be a direct professional conversation.
Skills First is the foundation of MySkillsSpace
One of the ideas shaping MySkillsSpace from the beginning is the Skills First approach. We want capabilities, experience, portfolio work and real examples of professional value to matter more when discovering specialists.
A job title alone often tells you very little about what someone can actually do. Two people with exactly the same title may have completely different experience, specializations and ways of working.
That is why a MySkillsSpace profile is designed to provide more context and help people evaluate a specialist through what they can actually offer.
See what someone can actually do first. The rest of the profile should add context, not replace an evaluation of their capabilities.
A profile designed to be more than a CV
Traditional professional profile
- Job title as the main point of reference
- A list of previous workplaces
- A long list of self-declared skills
- Portfolio hosted somewhere else
- No clear professional service offering
MySkillsSpace profile
- Skills and experience at the center
- Career history shown with more context
- Portfolio showing real projects
- Capabilities connected with practical work
- A way to publish professional services
Your profile and services in one place
Not every professional connection has to begin with a full-time recruitment process. A specialist may offer consulting, an audit, project delivery, a specific task or longer-term collaboration.
That is why services are an important part of MySkillsSpace. Your profile answers who you are and what you can do, while a service allows you to answer an even more specific question: how can you help right now?
Employers have their own space
MySkillsSpace does not treat an employer as a specialist with different labels in the menu. The two roles have different goals, which is why they receive separate experiences.
A specialist develops their professional presence, portfolio and services. An employer can build a company profile, discover specialists, save relevant profiles and services, and contact people whose capabilities match their needs.
Discovery starts with a real need
MySkillsSpace is intended to make it easier to find a specialist or service that matches a specific problem. Search, categories and filters help narrow the results, but the profile itself remains the most important source of context: capabilities, experience, portfolio, way of working and available services.
We want the decision to start a conversation to be based on better information than a job title alone.
Visibility stays under the user's control
Having a professional presence online does not mean every piece of information must always be public. That is why we are developing MySkillsSpace so users have real control over how their profile and information are presented.
The Skills First approach follows the same direction. The goal is to make it possible to understand someone's capabilities without always starting from information that may not be necessary for an initial evaluation.
Building MySkillsSpace with Europe in mind
From the beginning, MySkillsSpace has been designed as a multilingual product capable of working across more than one national market. Specialists may work locally, remotely or in hybrid models, while companies increasingly look for expertise beyond their own city or country.
Language, location, collaboration model and multilingual content are therefore part of the product foundation.
Launching the platform is only the beginning
Launching MySkillsSpace does not mean the product is finished. One of the most important stages begins now: observing how people use the platform, simplifying what is unnecessarily difficult and developing the capabilities that provide real value.
We do not want to grow the platform simply by adding more options. Every major change should help people communicate their capabilities more clearly, discover the right professionals more easily and create better connections between both sides.
What we will focus on next
- Even stronger public specialist profiles
- Better connections between skills, experience and portfolio work
- Development of Professional Strengths and richer capability context
- Better discovery of specialists and services
- Continued development of company profiles and the Employer workspace
- Improvements to messaging, notifications and communication
- Development of the Feed and professional community
- A consistent experience across desktop and mobile
- Continued multilingual development and a European product experience
Who is behind MySkillsSpace?
MySkillsSpace was created by the founder and owner of POLPROG. The project is being developed as an independent platform focused on skills, professional services and creating a better way to connect specialists with the people and companies that need their expertise.
The Blog will show how MySkillsSpace evolves
This article opens the MySkillsSpace Blog. We will use it to share new features, larger product changes, releases and important product decisions.
We also want to explain why certain parts of the platform work the way they do and what problems we are trying to solve through those decisions.
Frequently asked questions
About MySkillsSpace
What is MySkillsSpace?
MySkillsSpace is a platform for specialists and employers focused on skills, experience, portfolio work, professional services and discovering new opportunities to collaborate.
Is MySkillsSpace a traditional job board?
No. The platform is built around specialists, their capabilities, services and professional relationships. A traditional job listing is not the only possible starting point for collaboration.
Can specialists publish their own services?
Yes. Specialists can present specific services alongside their profile, experience, skills and portfolio.
Do employers have their own profiles?
Yes. MySkillsSpace separates the Specialist workspace from the Employer workspace. Employers can have a company profile and use features designed for discovering and contacting specialists.
What is Skills First?
It is an approach where capabilities, experience and real examples of work receive more attention than a job title or other superficial information.
Who created MySkillsSpace?
MySkillsSpace was created by the founder and owner of POLPROG and is being developed as an independent platform for specialists and employers.
Will MySkillsSpace continue to evolve?
Yes. Launching the platform is the beginning of the next stage of product development. We will share important updates through the MySkillsSpace Blog.
Find the right specialist without guesswork.
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