Reviewing User Experiences Timeline

A user's experiences timeline offers you a view of the user's past professional, academic, and other experiences where they have gained skills in their lifetime. Similar to a CV, the timeline of the experience gives a snapshot of the person's life.

Accessing a User's Experiences Timeline

Follow these steps to access a user's experiences timeline:

1. Click on the user's name on your main pane to open their skill profile.
2. Go to the Navigation Bar on their skill profile and click Experiences.
3. The user's experience timeline will be visible on the main pane of their skill profile.

Understanding User Experiences Timeline

A user experiences timeline consists of five columns that provide information about each user's experience, as explained below:

1. Years - An indication of the dates and overall duration of an experience in the timeline.
2. Type - The experience type, there are 3 of them:
   • Jobs - Experiences during which the user earned income from work, including self-employment
   • Education - Academic learning experiences
   • Other - Informal activities during which users have nonetheless gained valuable skills and knowledge
3. Title - A title given by the user to describe the experience the way they would like it to appear on a CV. For Jobs, this could be the job title. For Education, it could be the certificate earned, and for Others, it could be the name of the activity they did.
4. Organization - The name of the organization(s) with which the user was affiliated or where they gained the experience. This could be an employer, an educational institution, or a community organization.
5. Skills - The total number of skills the user learned or gained from the experience.

Exploring a User Experience in Detailed View

At the right end of an experience bar, you will see an arrow ( ) which you can click to see the experience and the related skills in detail.

In the detailed view, a user experience consists of 3 columns which show this information:

1. Location and frequency - Where and how often the user performs the experience.
2. Keywords - keywords the user added as tags for their experience in the application.
3. Top skills - all the skills the user learned and used in the experience.