The labels a fit assessment uses to classify a match are published — 20 labels in six groups. An assessment also contains written explanation specific to you and the job. The full vocabulary, with a plain-language definition of each term, is published at profiled.careers/fit-vocabulary.
Detail
The overall verdict — one per assessment:
- Strong fit — your experience lines up closely with what the job asks for.
- Worth a conversation — there is a real case, with things a hiring manager should ask you about.
- Probably not your person — the gaps are big enough that the role likely is not the right match.
The confidence grade — how much evidence the AI had to work from, stated alongside the verdict: Thorough profile, Well documented, Mixed evidence, Sparse profile, or Vague job description. That last one is about the job ad, not about you — a thin job description limits what any assessment can conclude.
Per-strength and per-gap labels: each strength the AI identifies is graded by how directly it speaks to the role (Core, Supporting, Adjacent), and gaps carry their own severity labels. A single assessment usually contains several of these.
The other three groups describe gaps and experience that carries over:
| Group | Labels | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| Your level against each gap | None, Limited, Dated, Tangential | How much of a job requirement you have: nothing in your profile speaks to it, you have less than the role asks for, you have done it but not recently, or you have worked near it and not directly on it. One per gap. |
| How much each gap matters | Major, Minor | Whether the gap could reasonably decide the outcome, or is worth naming but unlikely to be the deciding factor. One per gap, alongside your level. |
| How well your experience transfers | Close, Partial, Distant | Where you don’t have the exact thing the job asks for, how well what you do have carries over: very near, some of it, or a stretch. One per transferable skill. |
That makes 20 labels: 3 verdicts, 5 confidence grades, 3 strength labels, 4 gap levels, 2 gap severities and 3 transfer labels. The vocabulary page is the authoritative list. It carries a version and an effective date (Version 1.0, effective September 13, 2026, when this article was last verified), and if this article and that page ever differ, the page is right.
Why a published list matters: you can look up what any label on your assessment means, and the same label means the same thing on every candidate’s assessment.
The vocabulary page is deliberately public and not Pro-gated, so recruiters and candidates read the same definitions.
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Last verified: 2026-10-01