Create your Opportunity

Step 13: Join the sharing platform

The first step into your opportunity creation is to join the Sharing Platform if you didn’t already accomplish this step, follow the relative guide

Step 18: Insert your Opportunity

Create your own Opportunity is easy and fast, just follow these steps:

1. Open the MyProfilePage
2. Scroll down to the “My pending Opportunities” section
3. Click on the big “+” icon
4. And you will reach the Insert Opportunity page

In this page, you have to fill all fields to describe your Opportunity and, then, press the “submit” button.

The Opportunity will be revised by the Connecting Talents team, and it will appear in “waiting for acceptance” status

Step 19: WOAH! Your Opportunity has been approved

Congratulation! Your Opportunity is now ready to go online and to attract new talents.
Before you will publish it, you will need to provide more details (step 21) and invite team members (step 22)

To complete your Opportunity Profile:

• click on the approved Opportunity
• on the next screen click on the “continue” button
• and insert the missing information (press “next” to move to the 2nd and 3rd form)

Step 20: Oooh! Your Opportunity hasn’t been approved

If you will receive a notification that your Opportunity hasn’t been approved, don’t be discouraged. Probably your Opportunity vision and goals were not so clear and the reviewers didn’t have the opportunity to fully evaluate it.

You can submit your Opportunity again, to increase the approval rate follow these steps:

• Read carefully the rejection email, it contains the explanation from the reviewers.
• Fix the points addressed in the email
• Describe the Opportunity is a clear way: goal, target, impact, etc.

Step 21: Invite internal or external members to join your team

Now you can invite your team members to your Opportunity.

In Connecting Talents there are two types of members you can invite:

1. Internal members: users that are already registered in the platform
2. External members: users that are not registered in the platform yet

When you are in the your Opportunity Profile page (Team Management), you will be able to invite both kinds of users.

Click on the “+” icon in the “Potential team members” section

To add a member:

1. insert his/her email
2. If the email is already in the Connecting Talent platform, the form will suggest you Name, Surname, and picture. And press “Invite”
   The user will receive a notification to join your Opportunity.
3. If the email isn’t in the platform, you can complete all filed. The system will send an email to the user inviting him to join your Opportunity

Step 22: Manage your Team

Now that you have an approved Opportunities you are able to manage your Opportunity team.
Click on the Opportunity you want to manage, in your “Running Opportunity” area in MyProfilePage to open the Team Management page

The available actions in this page are:

• Edit Opportunity data: click on the “edit” link near the Opportunity name
• See team member’s profile: click on the picture of a team member in the “my team” section
  You can read his/her UTC data, the matching results, and leave a feedback to the user
• Communicate with your team: clicking the “chat” button you will open your RocketChat dedicated area
• Invite more members: click on the “+” icon in the Potential Team Member area
• Manage incoming requests to join: in the Potential Team Member area you will see all the users requested to join your Opportunity.
  You can click on a user picture to see his/her details and approve or deny his/her request.
• Find more talents for your Opportunity: clicking on the “match” button you will access to the Matching page (see step 24 and step 25)

Step 23: Looking for talents? Use the Talent Need Definition

If you are looking for new talents for your Opportunity you need to define what are you looking for.
The Talent Need Definition is a tool we are offering you to describe your needs.

(This section is not complete yet, it will be finished soon)

Step 24: Matching results: connect with new talents

For every Talent Need Definition, the Connecting Talent Matching Algorithm is able to present you the best talents for your Opportunity.
From your Team Management page, click on the “match” button, and you will see the Matching Result Page.

This page shows a list of talent ordered for matching score

The available actions here are:

• Look at a Talent profile: click on the talent picture/name
• Save the talent in your shortlist: click on the “+” button, and then click “save“
• Invite a talent: click on the “+” button, and then click “invite“

You can navigate results scrolling down the page or changing pages, or you can use filters clicking on “filter dashboard“