Frequently Asked Questions

Evendorse is a skill validation platform where reputation is built through real activity, not self-declarations. You participate in workshops, courses, mock interviews, and one-on-one sessions with practitioners, and the people you meet endorse the skills they actually saw. Every endorsement is weighted by the endorser's own credibility in that exact skill, so your profile reflects substance rather than popularity.

Anyone whose work involves skills that can be validated by peers and practitioners — software engineers, marketers, sales professionals, real estate agents, designers, public speakers, language learners, consultants. If you can demonstrate it in an activity or interview, you can validate it on Evendorse.

On LinkedIn, anyone in your network can endorse any skill, regardless of whether they've ever seen you use it, and all endorsements count the same. On Evendorse, you can only endorse someone you've actually shared an activity or interview with, and each endorsement is weighted by the endorser's own credibility in that exact skill. The result is a profile that signals real expertise, not just network size.

Yes. Creating an account, building a profile, joining activities, booking interviews, and giving or receiving endorsements are all free for participants. The platform charges a commission only to authors and interviewers, and only on confirmed paid bookings.

An Activity is an educational event delivered as a series of online or offline sessions — a course, workshop, masterclass, meetup, or similar format. Authors publish full details (skills, schedule, price, capacity), participants book a seat and attend, and afterward both sides can endorse each other.

Both. Online activities use external platforms like Zoom or Google Meet — Evendorse stores the meeting link and manages the participant list, while the session itself runs wherever the author chose. Offline activities take place at the location the author specifies in the activity details.

Browse the catalog, filter by skill, date, format, location, or price, and book directly. Once your booking is confirmed by the author, the activity appears in your dashboard with everything you need to attend.

Once the activity is marked complete, you and the other participants — including the author — become eligible to endorse each other for the activity's skills. You can also rate the activity and the author, which helps future participants make informed choices.

An Interview is a focused one-on-one session with an interviewer who assesses you against specific skills they've declared. Think of it as a structured mock interview, mentoring session, or skill assessment — useful both for preparing for real interviews and for collecting credible endorsements from experienced practitioners.

An Activity is a group event with multiple participants. An Interview is one-on-one with a single interviewer. Interviews are typically shorter and more focused, and the endorsement comes from a single experienced reviewer rather than from peers — which can make it a high-credibility signal for the skills assessed.

Enable the Interviewer profile from your account settings. Declare the skills you can assess, set your price, and publish your availability. Once your profile is live, candidates can browse and book sessions with you.

An endorsement is a score from 1 to 10 that one user gives another for a specific skill, after they've shared an activity or interview. It's the basic building block of every metric on the platform.

Authors of activities you've completed can endorse you (and you can endorse them back). Interviewers can endorse you for the skills they assessed. Users who attended the same activity as you can endorse you. You cannot be endorsed by random users you haven't actually shared an activity or interview with.

No. Endorsement eligibility is gated to actual shared participation in an activity or interview. This rule exists to keep endorsements grounded in evidence — without it, the credibility system would collapse into a popularity contest, which is exactly what Evendorse is designed to avoid.

Every skill on your profile has four independent metrics: Score, Engagement, Confidence, and Credibility. Each one captures a different dimension of your relationship with that skill — how good you are, how active, how reliably we know it, and how much your own opinion matters. Together they give a much richer picture than any single rating could.

Your Score is your level of expertise for a given skill, on a 0–10 scale. It's a weighted average of all the endorsements you've received: each endorsement is multiplied by the endorser's own Credibility in that skill, so a 9 from a high-credibility expert moves your Score much more than a 9 from a beginner. Your Score determines your skill level (Beginner, Intermediate, Senior, etc.). If no one has endorsed you yet for a skill, your Score starts at 0 and your level is Beginner.

Engagement measures how active you are with the skill — both giving and receiving endorsements — over the last 365 days. It's split evenly between endorsements you've given and endorsements you've received, with diminishing returns: going from 0 to 5 endorsements has a much bigger effect than going from 50 to 55. Engagement keeps your profile responsive to recent activity rather than long-past achievements.

Confidence reflects how statistically reliable your Score is. It combines three signals: the total volume of endorsements you've received, the average Credibility of the people who endorsed you, and the real-world economic activity around that skill (paid activities you authored or attended, and interviews you participated in). Verified users with a Score of 7 or higher receive an additional Confidence bonus. High Confidence means there's a lot of solid evidence behind your Score; low Confidence means the Score is provisional.

Credibility determines how much weight your own endorsements carry for other users in that specific skill. It's a blend of your authority (your Score on a 0–1 scale) and your Confidence: a high Score with low Confidence won't make you a heavyweight endorser, and neither will high Confidence with low expertise. As your Credibility grows, your endorsements move other people's Scores more — which is the core mechanic that makes the whole network resistant to gaming.

The AI Career Assessment is an automated evaluation of your career background. You upload your CV and answer a personalized questionnaire, and the platform's AI generates a structured assessment of your skills along with concrete next steps for your career.

Four things: a set of baseline endorsements on your profile across the skills the AI detected, job role recommendations aligned with your profile, specific job opportunities from platform-curated vacancies, and a list of activities that would close the skill gaps blocking your career goals.

No, intentionally. AI endorsements come from a system bot with the minimum possible Credibility, so they appear on your profile as low-confidence baseline signals — for example, "Java, Senior, Confidence: Low." They give you something to start with, but real peer endorsements move your Score much more. That's exactly what motivates new users to participate in activities and seek real validation.

No. Participants pay only the price the author or interviewer set, and only through the direct arrangement between the two of them. No platform commission is added on top.

Payments happen entirely off the platform. Once you reserve a seat, you pay the author or interviewer directly — by bank transfer, payment app, cash, or any method you both agree on. You then use Evendorse's in-app messaging to send a screenshot or photo confirming the payment. The author reviews it and marks the booking confirmed. Evendorse never holds your money or processes the payment itself.

Two reasons. First, it keeps onboarding simple — participants don't need to set up new payment methods, and authors don't need to wait for a payment provider integration in their region. Second, it preserves flexibility: you can use the payment method that actually works for both sides, which matters for international users and for niches where standard processors aren't ideal.

Evendorse charges a commission on confirmed paid bookings, paid by the author or interviewer (never by the participant). The commission is deducted from a prepaid credit balance the author or interviewer maintains on the platform.

5% of the booking price, charged once the booking is confirmed. The same 5% applies to authors confirming activity bookings and to interviewers confirming interview bookings.

Authors and interviewers top up a prepaid credit balance on Evendorse — similar to how mobile carriers or cloud services work. When a booking is confirmed, the 5% commission is automatically deducted from the balance. If the balance is too low to cover a commission, the booking can't be confirmed until the account is topped up. This model keeps platform billing predictable and avoids charging your card on every transaction.

A confirmed paid booking is one of the strongest possible signals that someone is paying for your skill in the real world. Evendorse rewards this transparency: when you confirm bookings on the platform rather than hide them, the cash flow feeds into the Confidence metric for the skills involved — for both sides of the deal. This creates a built-in incentive to be honest about pricing.

Link your social media accounts (LinkedIn, GitHub, Telegram, and others) and confirm ownership through each platform's standard verification flow. Once verified, your profile shows a verification badge, and your Confidence metric gets an additional boost when your Score reaches 7 or higher.

The credibility-weighting system makes it economically pointless to swap endorsements with low-credibility friends — their endorsements barely move your Score. To get a high Score, you need endorsements from people who themselves have high Credibility in that skill, and those people earned that Credibility only through their own real endorsements. The whole system is self-reinforcing and resistant to gaming.

Text messages and image attachments. The most common use is sending proof of payment to authors and interviewers to confirm bookings, but you can use messages for any conversation related to the platform — coordinating logistics, asking questions before an activity, following up after a session.

Yes. Every Evendorse account starts as a regular participant. You can upgrade to Author (to host activities), become an Interviewer (to offer 1-on-1 sessions), or both — all from the same account. Most active users wear several hats over time as their credibility builds.

Authors and interviewers can share referral codes when inviting others to the platform. When the people you referred host or book on the platform and generate commissions, you receive a share of those commissions. The exact share is shown in your account dashboard.

Yes. Authors and interviewers can offer promotional codes — for first-time customers, network discounts, or seasonal campaigns. Promotional codes are applied automatically on activities and interviews they cover.

Your CV is used to generate the AI Career Assessment for your own profile. It's stored privately and is never shared with other users or external recruiters without an explicit action from you, such as applying to a specific job opportunity through the platform.