Overview
Career Score is CareerTruss's way of measuring how complete and employer-ready your profile is. It highlights missing information and encourages you to build a stronger professional profile before applying to internships. It is also sometimes interconnected or merged with the AMS.
A guidance tool
What affects your Career Score?
Your score is generally based on the completeness and quality of information in your CareerTruss profile.
- Profile completion
- Education details
- Skills
- Projects and experience
- Professional links and portfolio
- Other profile information that helps employers evaluate you
Improving your score
Complete your profile
Fill in every relevant section instead of leaving information blank.Add meaningful projects
Showcase personal, academic, freelance, or internship projects that demonstrate your abilities.Keep information updated
Regularly update your profile as you gain new skills, certifications, or experience.Connect professional links
Add your GitHub, portfolio, LinkedIn, Behance, Medium, or other relevant professional profiles where applicable.
Tip
Things to remember
- Career Score can change as you update your profile.
- A higher score generally indicates a more complete profile.
- Employers evaluate applications using many factors beyond Career Score.
- Quality and relevance matter more than simply filling every field.
Warning
Next steps
Building your profile
Learn how to complete every important section of your profile.
Applying to internships
Understand the application process after your profile is ready.
Saved roles
Keep track of internships you're interested in.
Documentation status: Stable