Matching skills to roles in Cinode helps you identify the most suitable consultants for your projects. Consultants should tag their profiles with relevant skills to improve matching accuracy.
Cinode's matching goes beyond exact skill names — it also recognises related skills and similar terminology. This means consultants are surfaced even when their skills are worded differently. For example, a consultant with Scrum can match a role that requests Agile, because the system understands the two are closely related.
Working with Role Matching
If you have already created a project and a role, follow the steps below. Otherwise, start by reading how to create a project and a role.
Open the role overview page
Go to Projects > List, open your project, and click on the desired role.Add skill requirements
Click Add skill.
Set the level and mark it as Mandatory or Optional.
Add multiple skills as needed.
These tags define the competence requirements for the assignment.
Once skills are added, Cinode displays the number of employees, subcontractors, candidates, and partners matching your requirements — including those whose skills are related to, but not identical to, what you specified.
Using AI to Suggest Skills
You can use Cinode's AI feature to automatically suggest relevant skills for a role based on its title and description.
Click the three dots next to the role.
Add a title and description, then click Save.
The system will suggest relevant skills for the role.
Viewing Matches
Click Matching to open the matching view.
The list shows potential employees, subcontractors, candidates, or partners who have any of the required skills on their profiles or candidate cards.
Cinode automatically expands the search to include related competencies, so you see a broader and more relevant set of candidates without having to manually add every possible variation of a skill.
When a consultant is matched through a related skill rather than an exact one, this is clearly indicated in the interface so you always know why someone appears in your results.
Availability indicators:
Green: Fully available
Yellow shades: Partially available
Red: Fully booked
Click the arrow next to a consultant's name to view detailed information about their assigned or preliminary projects.
Filtering and Sorting Matches
Use filters to refine your list of potential matches. You can filter by:
Employee Team / Subcontractor Group
Matching percentage (min–max %)
Availability (min–max %)
Location (for Employee and Subcontractors)
Tags (for Employees, Subcontractors and Partners)
To add, change, or remove competencies, click Requirements in the filtering panel.
Understanding the Match Indicators
Matching percentage: The round icon next to a name shows the consultant's match rate based on skill requirements. Hover over the icon to see details, including the consultant's top five skills. The percentage accounts for both exact skill matches and closely related ones, so a high score reflects genuine competence fit — not just identical labels.
Scoring model: Takes into account whether each skill is mandatory or optional, and whether the match is exact or based on a related skill. Use this score as an indicator, not an absolute measure.
Star icon: Indicates the consultant's favourite skill, as marked in their profile.
Book on Role
To book someone on a role:
Click the three dots next to their name.
Choose Book preliminary or Book definite.
You can also pin a person to keep them visible in your list even when you change filters or search criteria. This is useful when managing multiple people.