In Meridian People & Skills Hub, the match score is a percentage from 0 to 100 that ranks how well a person fits the skills you asked for. It follows a fixed rule, not an AI judgment.
The rule
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The app takes the skills from your request. These are the requested skills.
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For each requested skill, a person scores their level divided by 5. Level 5 gives 1.0, level 4 gives 0.8, down to level 1 with 0.2. A skill they do not have scores 0.
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The app adds up these values and divides by the number of requested skills, not by the number the person matched.
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The result is rounded to a whole percentage.
Example
You ask for React, TypeScript, and AWS.
|
Person |
React |
TypeScript |
AWS |
Match score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Priya |
Level 5, so 1.0 |
Level 4, so 0.8 |
missing, so 0 |
60 percent |
|
Ben |
Level 3, so 0.6 |
missing, so 0 |
Level 5, so 1.0 |
53 percent |
What this means in practice
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Covering all requested skills at level 5 gives 100 percent.
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Covering three of four requested skills caps the score at 75 percent, however high the levels are. Breadth counts as much as depth.
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A requested skill that nobody in your organization has on their profile lowers the score for every candidate, and the search result marks it as not found.
What the score is not
It says nothing about availability, workload, or how recently someone worked on a skill. It compares the skills that are on people's profiles, and those come from what the app derived from their work and from the corrections people made themselves.