Is any score or weightage associated with Soft Skills during candidate-job matching?

Yes. Soft Skills can be considered during candidate-job matching as part of the overall Skill matching logic and Skill Ranking functionality.

RChilli Search & Match uses skill entities during matching. For JD-to-Candidate matching, the Skill weightage is distributed across JD skill entities such as:

• RequiredSkillSet
• PreferredSkillSet
• AliasSkillSet
• JobProfileRelatedSkills

The documented default JD Skill child weightage shows RequiredSkillSet = 100, PreferredSkillSet = 80, AliasSkillSet = 60, and JobProfileRelatedSkills = 80 under the Skill parent entity. Required and Preferred skills are matched against resume skill entities such as SkillHaveExp and SkillWithoutExp.

For Candidate-to-Job matching, the Skill entity is evaluated using resume-side skill entities such as:

• SkillHaveExp
• SkillWithoutExp
• SkillAlias

The Resume skills can be categorized by skill type, including SoftSkill and OperationalSkill.

By default, Soft Skills carry comparatively lower influence than Operational or Technical Skills in Skill Ranking. This behavior can be configured from the backend, including setting the Soft Skills contribution to 0 when Soft Skills should not be considered in matching.

Skill Ranking is applied by default when matching uses jsonData. When matching through documentId, the skillRank parameter must be set to true to enable Skill Ranking.

For a setup where total Skills weightage is 40, the distribution is handled within the Skill entity based on the matching direction and configured ranking logic:

• JD-to-Candidate Matching: distribution is based on Required and Preferred skills.
• Candidate-to-Job Matching: distribution is based on SkillHaveExp and SkillWithoutExp.
• Soft Skills: considered as part of Skill Ranking, with lower default contribution than Operational/Technical Skills, unless backend configuration changes the contribution.

For weightage changes or disabling Soft Skills from scoring, contact the CSM or email RChilli Support.

Relevant Help Documents:
Dynamic Weightage Doc
Skill Ranking Doc