Skills catalog & business dictionary
Written By Talenkai
Last updated 23 days ago
Matching quality depends on shared vocabulary. Two tools keep CV chaos from breaking scores.
Skills catalog
Unifies messy CV labels under one canonical skill (e.g. variant SAP names → one catalog entry). Candidates and jobs should reference the same catalog ideas so the main-skill gate and filters stay consistent.
Admins can review pending skill suggestions and maintain aliases when the desk invents new wording.
Business dictionary
Maps client wording (“S/4 finance rollout”, internal project nicknames) to the profile you actually search. Use it when briefs never say the catalog skill name out loud.
When to invest time
After importing a large CV pile.
When scores look random across similar consultants.
When two recruiters disagree what “the” skill is for a niche.
Workflow
Open the skills catalog / dictionary screens from product navigation or settings.
Merge or alias duplicates.
Fix main skill on hot candidates and open jobs.
Recalculate matching on those jobs.
Do this early; every later match reuses the cleanup.
Related: Match scores look wrong, Add a candidate.
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