How MySkillsSpace works

Recruitment, with a clearer path

Start with a simple conversation, or send one structured invitation: the role, your message, a pipeline of named stages and any assessments. The candidate reads every condition before saying yes, and both sides follow one timeline.

Two ways to start

These are not two versions of one button. A message is how you talk; an invitation is how you run a process. Use whichever the moment calls for.

Start with a message

A direct conversation, without opening any process.

  1. Open one of the specialist's published services
  2. Write. The thread appears in Messages for both sides
  3. Talk, and send a recruitment invitation later if it fits

Good for

  • A first question or an availability check
  • Discussing scope, expectations or timing
  • Contact about a published service

A message is just a message. It does not enter anyone into a recruitment process, assign assessments or create any obligation.

Send a recruitment invitation

One structured invitation: the role, your terms, your message, a pipeline of stages, and assessments when they add value.

  1. Describe the role and terms, and pick one of your pipelines or keep the standard sequence
  2. Attach up to five assessments, each required or optional
  3. The candidate reads every condition, then accepts or declines
  4. Stages move: assessments complete on their own, review and interview by your hand
  5. One timeline records every move until a decision, or the candidate's withdrawal

Good for

  • A defined role you are hiring for
  • Competency evidence as part of the process
  • A clear deadline both sides can see

The invitation stays open for 30 days, and attached assessments share that deadline. You can withdraw it any time before it is answered; a candidate can withdraw from a running process at any point.

Message when you want to talk. Invite when you are ready to run a structured process.

Named stages, one timeline

Every recruitment runs on a pipeline: a short sequence of stages the company names in its own words. The candidate sees the whole sequence before accepting, and every move lands on a timeline both sides can read.

Pipeline: Senior engineer, two rounds In progress
  1. InvitationDone
  2. Skills checkAssessments · 1 required, 1 optional
  3. Portfolio reviewReview
  4. Technical interviewInterview · optional
  5. OfferOffer

Timeline

  1. Invitation accepted
  2. Frontend Developer Assessment completed · 84%
  3. Skills check completed
  4. Entered Portfolio review
  5. Note added Internal
  • Stages have a type and a name

    Invitation, assessments, review, interview, offer or custom. The company writes the label; the type decides how the stage completes.

  • Automatic where it can be

    An assessment stage closes itself when every required result is in, including a verified skill the candidate already holds. Review, interview and offer move only when a person moves them.

  • One timeline, two views

    Sent, opened, accepted, started, submitted, moved, noted, decided. The candidate reads their own history; internal notes and reasons stay with the company.

  • Leaving is always possible

    A candidate can withdraw at any point. It ends the process as a withdrawal, never as a rejection, and the company hears it at once.

One invitation, start to evidence

The structured path in three moves: what each side does, and what each side sees.

  1. Recruiter

    Compose one invitation

    Role, terms and a personal message in one place. Pick one of your pipelines or keep the standard sequence, search the assessment catalogue, mark each pick required or optional, and watch the candidate's total time as you choose. If a valid public verification already covers a skill, the composer says so.

  2. Candidate

    Everything on the table before yes

    The candidate reads who is asking, the role, your message, every stage, each assessment with its length, who will see the results, that integrity signals go to a reviewer and never reject anyone, and the deadline. Accepting starts the process. It never starts an assessment.

  3. Recruiter

    Stages move, the timeline remembers

    Each completed assessment updates the process for both sides, and the assessment stage closes itself when the last required result lands. You move the candidate through review and interview, leave internal notes, and end with hired or not selected. Nothing is ever decided for you.

  • Every stage, requirement, length and the deadline are visible before you accept anything.
  • Required and optional assessments are clearly separated. Optional ones never block a stage.
  • An assessment begins only when you press start inside it. Reading or accepting the invitation starts nothing.
  • Where the sender accepts existing verification, one click applies a verification you already hold. No retake.
  • Your process view shows the current stage, what comes next and your own timeline, and you can withdraw at any point.

Skills can be shown. Skills can be evidenced.

The three states one skill can be in, and the rules that keep the evidence fair.

  1. React

    Declared

    A skill the specialist lists on their profile. A useful signal, with no proof attached.

  2. React

    Verified

    Earned by passing an assessment that defines a pass mark. Time-limited, and shown publicly only if its owner chooses to.

  3. Frontend Developer Assessment · 84%

    Recruitment evidence

    A result produced inside your own process: a score you can open in full, visible to you and the candidate.

Reuse before retest

When a requirement allows it, a valid verification the candidate already holds satisfies it: publicly visible ones at send time, private ones by the candidate's own click. Nobody proves the same skill twice for no reason.

  • Candidates take the tests

    Recruiters select, preview, assign and review. Only the candidate completes an assessment.

  • Preview without spoilers

    The recruiter preview shows sections, question mix, timing and rules. The live questions stay sealed.

  • Results are not public

    Recruitment results stay inside the process. Verified skills appear on a profile only when the candidate turns them on.

  • Evidence, not verdicts

    A score informs a human decision. Nothing here auto-rejects or auto-hires anyone.

Frequent questions

Can I contact someone without starting recruitment?

Yes. Write about any published service and it is just a conversation: no process, no assessments, no pipeline. Even inside a recruitment invitation, either side can ask questions before any decision.

Do I have to attach an assessment to every invitation?

No. An invitation can be just the role, terms and your message. Attach assessments only when the evidence genuinely helps.

What is a pipeline?

A reusable sequence of named stages a company builds once, for example invitation, skills check, portfolio review, interview, offer. Each stage is required or optional. Invitations sent without one use the standard sequence.

Can one invitation carry several assessments?

Yes, up to five, each marked required or optional, with the candidate's estimated total time shown while you compose.

Does opening an invitation start any timer?

No. Reading an invitation, and even accepting it, starts nothing. An assessment begins only when the candidate presses start in the assessment itself.

Does the recruiter take the test?

No. Recruiters preview an assessment's structure and review results; only candidates complete attempts. A preview never creates an attempt or a result.

Can an existing verified skill be reused?

Yes, when the requirement allows it. A publicly visible valid verification counts immediately; a private one counts the moment the candidate chooses to apply it.

Are assessment results public?

No. Results are visible to the candidate and to the recruiter who asked for them. A verified skill appears on the public profile only if the candidate enables it.

Who sees the timeline?

Both sides see the shared events: sent, accepted, assessments started and completed, stages entered, the outcome. Internal notes, waiver reasons and rejection reasons are visible only to the company.

Can a candidate leave a process?

Yes, at any point, with an optional message to the company. The process ends as withdrawn, never as rejected, and the company is notified.

Does MySkillsSpace decide who gets hired?

No. It supplies evidence: scores, verified skills, integrity signals and context. Nothing auto-rejects or auto-hires; every decision stays with people.