# Complete your Professional Profile

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Audience: Specialists and workspace owners
Reading time: 6 min
Updated: 2026-07-15T00:00:00.000Z

Create the trusted identity that powers team matching, collaboration and reputation.

## Why the profile comes first

Collty uses one professional identity across workspaces. Completing it first avoids asking for the same name, location, education and career history again in Client or Partner profiles.

A sufficiently complete profile also gives the team assembly and intelligence systems enough evidence to distinguish actual fit from an empty or generic profile.

## What to complete

- Your name, city, country and professional title
- Roles, skills, industries and project types
- Work history, education and selected cases
- Availability, collaboration preferences and rate where relevant
- A date of birth confirming that you are at least 18

## How profile evidence is used

### Inside Collty: Profile evidence, not keyword counting

Collty normalizes structured profile evidence before it is used for team recommendations. A role label is only one signal; recent experience, demonstrated work, availability and collaboration history provide additional context.

- Private profile fields remain outside public discovery by default.
- Matching confidence is kept separate from the fit score.
- Sparse profiles are treated as limited evidence, not as proof of low ability.

## Save successfully

1. **Complete at least 80 percent:** The footer shows what still prevents a reliable profile from being saved.
2. **Use English for professional fields:** This keeps profiles searchable and comparable across international teams.
3. **Review visibility:** Choose which professional information can appear publicly and which remains private.

## Related guides

- [Choose Your Workspace](https://collty.com/help/getting-started/choose-your-workspace)
- [Professional Reputation And Achievements](https://collty.com/help/community/professional-reputation-and-achievements)
- [How Team Intelligence Works](https://collty.com/help/teams/how-team-intelligence-works)