Achievements make useful professional progress visible
Achievements recognize completed delivery, recorded collaboration, shared work interests, documented professional evidence and useful community participation. They are designed to make meaningful progress visible rather than reward passive follower counts or repeated low-value activity.
Each achievement is calculated from stored product evidence. The interface shows its current state, tier, progress and next threshold without asking the user to claim it manually.
Achievements reflect qualifying recorded activity. Open a milestone to see its progress and requirements rather than treating the badge as a profile skill or permission.
Open achievements from a professional profile
The achievement icon appears in the upper-right profile actions where Collty can resolve the person behind the profile. It is available from Personal profile and from supported specialist profile views in Teams, Project Workspace and Signals.
Select the icon to open the Achievements window. The collection remains a separate layer above the current profile, so closing it returns to the same person and context.
Read the achievement window
| Element | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Locked | The required evidence has not started or is not yet available |
| In progress | The counter has valid evidence but has not reached the current threshold |
| Unlocked | The threshold has been reached and the milestone is stored in the profile summary |
| Level | For progressive milestones, the reached threshold and next target |
| Progress bar and counter | Current evidence compared with the next target |
| Detail panel | A plain-language explanation, exact progress and unlock date when available |
Delivery and professional evidence milestones
| Achievement | Evidence | Threshold |
|---|---|---|
| First project completed / 5 projects completed / 15 projects completed | Completed Collty projects | 1 / 5 / 15 |
| 10 tasks completed / 50 tasks completed / 100 tasks completed | Completed tasks assigned to the specialist | 10 / 50 / 100 |
| First education record / 2 education records | Complete higher-education records in the Professional Profile | 1 / 2 |
| First case added / 5 cases added / 10 cases added | Complete professional cases in the portfolio | 1 / 5 / 10 |
| RIASEC results shared | Complete all 30 activities and share work interests with profile viewers | 1 |
Collaboration milestones
| Achievement | Evidence | Threshold |
|---|---|---|
| First collaboration added | One distinct person in professional Collaboration history; a self-reported record, not verified trust | 1 |
| 5 collaborators added | Different people in professional Collaboration history; duplicates and friendship-only entries excluded | 5 |
Community contribution milestones
| Achievement | Evidence | Threshold or levels |
|---|---|---|
| First post shared | Shared knowledge posts in Signals; private notes excluded | 1 · 10 posts shared at 10 · 50 posts shared at 50 |
| 10 comments shared / 100 comments shared | Comments in shared Signals discussions | 10 / 100 |
| 10 helpful reactions | Helpful reactions from other people; private saves and self-reactions excluded | 10 · 50 helpful reactions at 50 · 100 helpful reactions at 100 |
What counts toward progress
- A task counts when it is assigned to the specialist and reaches the completed delivery state used by the project workflow.
- A project counts after completion for a confirmed participant; unanswered invitations do not count.
- Profile evidence counts from completed education and case records. RIASEC results shared requires a complete questionnaire and active sharing; withdrawing sharing hides the award. Interests and achievements are not proficiency or suitability scores.
Achievements support reputation without replacing context
A badge is a compact entry point into professional evidence. It does not replace the person's role, experience, cases, availability or project outcomes, and it is not used as a universal score of human quality.
Professional achievements complement the profile and Team Intelligence rather than overriding project fit. Use Signals to preserve project decisions and reusable team knowledge within the selected audience.
When an achievement unlocks
After a relevant action such as completing a task or updating professional evidence, Collty checks the profile summary. A newly reached milestone is recorded once and queued for notification.
The workspace shows a single achievement message with a direct View achievement action. Dismissing it does not remove the achievement, and the same unlock is not celebrated again on every visit.
Build reputation through real work
- 1Complete the Professional Profile
Add verifiable education and complete project cases so profile evidence can be understood by people and team tools.
- 2Keep delivery records current
Use accurate assignments and task states instead of updating progress only at the end of a project.
- 3Use Project pulse for support
Open Project management to share a project check-in or prepare a private message about blockers. It is separate from achievements.
- 4Help in Signals
Answer questions in your project and team spaces, publish useful methods and keep shared guidance current.
- 5Record collaboration
Keep Collaboration history accurate. Friendship alone does not count toward professional collaboration milestones.