Skillrater is a skill-validation platform that turns your professional history into verified, shareable proof. Colleagues, managers, and clients who've seen your work rate your skills and describe situations where they observed you demonstrate them — producing validated skill cards you can share on LinkedIn, in interviews, and across your career.

How is Skillrater different from LinkedIn endorsements?

LinkedIn endorsements are one-click and anonymous in quality. Skillrater requires validators to rate each skill AND describe the specific situation in which they witnessed it. The result is structured, defensible evidence — not popularity. Each validated skill card carries anonymized quotes and a credibility score.

Who built Skillrater?

Skillrater was originally created by Louis Carter and Best Practice Institute, building on 25 years of enterprise 360-degree feedback research, continuous skill rating, and workplace science across 2.8 million employees and 1,800+ companies.

Does Skillrater work for companies as well as individuals?

Yes. Skillrater provides a mirrored analysis for organizations: by ingesting your company profile, careers page, and job descriptions, Skillrater generates an Employer Visibility Score and Talent Attraction Score, and integrates with CertCheck to match validated candidate evidence directly against the skills you're hiring for.

Go to www.skillrater.com to create your profile, invite validators, or run an employer analysis.

The Evolution of Assessment

Performance reviews moved. Most companies didn't.

The Old Model

Locked, slow, subjective.

— Subjective peer and supervisor ratings
— Siloed internal 360-degree feedback
— Annual, slow performance reviews
— Data trapped inside enterprise HR systems

The Skillrater Model

Public, instant, defensible.

Public Skill Evidence Profiles
AI-driven Opportunity Mapping
Instant career direction guidance
Private skill references you control

For Individuals

Stop guessing. Start proving.

Get a comprehensive analysis of the skill signals you're sending to the market — scored, validated by the people who've worked with you, and ready to share.

Try Skillrater

01
Input your record
Paste your existing resume, LinkedIn profile, or bio into our heuristic engine.
02
Instant analysis
We parse your text against enterprise competency models to extract your structural skill signals.
03
Invite your network
Choose the skills you want validated and invite colleagues, managers, or clients who've seen your work firsthand.
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They validate your skills
Validators rate each skill and describe specific situations where they observed you demonstrate it.
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Share your validated skill cards
View your validated cards with ratings and anonymized quotes. Share on LinkedIn to build credible professional visibility, and unlock your personalized Skill Evidence Map with target roles and networking paths.

What you get back

Skill evidence, not skill claims.

Skill Evidence Scoring

Your profile evaluated across Searchability, Credibility, and Professional Visibility — with a definitive overall score.

Missing Signals Detection

Discover the exact competencies, action verbs, and quantified metrics you're failing to highlight to recruiters.

Opportunity Mapping

Based on demonstrated skills, see the best-fit roles and company types where you can excel immediately.

Actionable Networking

Concrete recommendations on who to connect with — and what immediate actions elevate your profile most.

For Employers

See the exact skill signals your brand is missing.

Skillrater provides a mirrored analysis for organizations. Ingest your company profile, careers page, and job descriptions to generate an Employer Visibility Score and a Talent Attraction Score — then integrate with CertCheck to match validated candidate evidence directly against your open roles.

Run an employer analysis How CertCheck integrates

Employer Visibility

Mapped

Where your employer brand shows up in candidate skill searches — and where it doesn't.

Talent Attraction Score

Analyzed

How attractive your roles read against the skills validated candidates actually carry.

Rooted in enterprise research.

Originally created by Louis Carter and Best Practice Institute, Skillrater is built on 10+ years of enterprise 360-degree feedback, continuous skill rating, and workplace research — the same methodology underlying Most Loved Workplace® and CertCheck.

Most Loved Workplace® · Best Practice Institute · CertCheck

FAQ

Common questions

What is Skillrater?: Skillrater is a skill-validation platform that turns your professional history into verified, shareable proof. Colleagues, managers, and clients who've seen your work rate your skills and describe situations where they observed you demonstrate them — producing validated skill cards you can share on LinkedIn, in interviews, and across your career.
How is Skillrater different from LinkedIn endorsements?: LinkedIn endorsements are one-click and anonymous in quality. Skillrater requires validators to rate each skill AND describe the specific situation in which they witnessed it. The result is structured, defensible evidence — not popularity. Each validated skill card carries anonymized quotes and a credibility score.
Who built Skillrater?: Skillrater was originally created by Louis Carter and Best Practice Institute, building on 25 years of enterprise 360-degree feedback research, continuous skill rating, and workplace science across 2.8 million employees and 1,800+ companies.
Does Skillrater work for companies as well as individuals?: Yes. Skillrater provides a mirrored analysis for organizations: by ingesting your company profile, careers page, and job descriptions, Skillrater generates an Employer Visibility Score and Talent Attraction Score, and integrates with CertCheck to match validated candidate evidence directly against the skills you're hiring for.
Where do I sign up?: Go to www.skillrater.com to create your profile, invite validators, or run an employer analysis.

Get the people who've seen your work to validate your skills.

Then carry that proof everywhere — your LinkedIn, your next job, your next pitch, your next chapter.

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Best Practice Institute

Best Practice Institute is the research organization behind Most Loved Workplace® certification, the SPARK Model, the Love of Workplace Index™ (LOWI™), and The Workplace Report.

The Workplace Report

The Workplace Report is BPI's original workplace culture research and editorial briefing series for CEOs, CHROs, people leaders, talent leaders, and employer-brand teams. It turns BPI's 25 years of research, Most Loved Workplace® certification data, SPARK findings, and current workforce signals into practical analysis leaders can use.

The report format includes executive summaries, research-backed articles, company examples, methodology notes, and practical implications for retention, hiring, culture, leadership, and employee experience. New research and analysis is published on an ongoing editorial cadence at /workplace-report.