Finding opportunities
Two distinct types of item appear in the list: matches, which are computed, and suggestions, which are sent by another member. Both require Solo plan.
/a/opportunities in the appMatches
Section titled “Matches”Opportunity matching requires Solo plan and uses the same engine as member matching, with the same 60/30/10 weighting of shared terms, meaning and distance. What differs is the comparison: an opportunity’s tags against your interests and match tags, its country against your location, and its text against yours.
The consequence is that the profile is the input in both cases. A thin match list is addressed by completing the profile rather than by adjusting the search.
Weak matches are excluded rather than ranked low. Items below the relevance threshold do not appear, so a short list indicates that few met the threshold.
A flagged opportunity is scored at half weight for all members, in both directions. See verification.
One asymmetry in the scoring
Section titled “One asymmetry in the scoring”Completed connections raise match scores with a member, but the bonus applies only in the member → opportunity direction. It does not affect the direction that determines whose list your own opportunity appears in, so connection activity does not raise the ranking of your listings for other members.
Suggestions
Section titled “Suggestions”Suggestions are Solo plan.
Separately, a member can send an opportunity directly. It appears under Suggested with any accompanying message, and is unrelated to scoring.
| Who | Any member, to up to five people at once |
| Message | Optional, up to 500 characters |
| Clearing | Suggestions can be dismissed; they do not expire automatically |
Suggestion is the less-used of the two mechanisms. Matching identifies what fits a profile, whereas a colleague can identify what fits a member including factors the profile does not record. Up to five recipients can be selected at once, with an optional note.
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