Your Profile
Your UmayNow profile is your professional identity on the network. It gives people and companies a clear view of who you are, what you do, what you offer, what you're looking for, and the experience behind your work. Unlike a traditional resume, it's built for professional discovery: what you add here feeds directly into search, people discovery, matching, and business opportunities.
What is a UmayNow profile?
A UmayNow profile brings together the information that represents your professional background and current business context. Depending on your profile, this can include:
- Professional role and industry
- About
- Experience
- Education
- I Offer
- I Need
- Tools
- Projects
- Languages
- Portfolio and contact information
- Recommendations
- Verification and trust information
Each section serves a different purpose. Together, they create a structured professional profile rather than simply a page of personal information.
How your profile works
UmayNow is built around professional discovery. Your profile gives other people and companies enough structured information to understand whether there's a relevant reason to connect, collaborate, hire, offer something to you, or start a conversation. Your role and industry establish your professional context, your experience and projects provide evidence of what you've actually worked on, and I Offer and I Need make your current professional intentions explicit. Together, this can support:
- Search: relevant profile information helps people and companies find professionals who match what they're looking for.
- People Discovery: your professional context helps UmayNow surface potentially relevant people beyond your existing network.
- Matching: your profile provides signals that can be relevant when comparing professional needs and offers.
- Business Opportunities: your profile provides context when evaluating whether an opportunity is relevant to you.
- Trust: verification and recommendations add confidence to the professional information on your profile.
Profile sections
About
Gives you space to explain your professional background in your own words: who you are professionally, what you work on, and what kind of work you're involved in. Keep it specific, you don't need to repeat every structured field already visible elsewhere on your profile. A good About section gives someone enough context to understand your professional focus before they explore the rest of your profile.
Experience
Shows your professional history. Add relevant positions, organizations, dates, and responsibilities so people understand where your experience comes from and what you've worked on. It provides context beyond your current role, so someone discovering your profile can see the path that led you there. Where supported, employment information can also be verified, and verified information carries more weight than anything self-declared.
Education
Adds academic background: the institutions, degrees, or programs relevant to your professional identity. It doesn't replace your professional experience, it just gives people additional context about where you came from.
I Offer
Describes what you can currently provide to other people or companies, and it's one of the most important discovery signals on your profile because it makes your professional value explicit. That can be expertise, services, technical work, business development, consulting, collaboration, hiring support, or industry knowledge. For example, "I Offer: Unreal Engine development" tells the network you can provide Unreal Engine expertise. Be specific about what you're actually willing to provide, not just everything you're capable of.
I Need
Describes what you're currently looking for: people, expertise, services, partnerships, hiring, investment, or other professional needs. For example, "I Need: Business Development" or "I Need: AI Engineering". Making your needs explicit gives other professionals and companies a clearer reason to reach out.
I Offer + I Need, together
These two work together. If Person A offers Unreal Engine development and Person B needs Unreal Engine development, that's a potentially relevant discovery signal. The point isn't that every match is automatically an opportunity, it's that relevant professional relationships become easier to find.
Tools
Shows the software, technologies, and platforms you actually use in your work, for example Unreal Engine, Unity, Blender, Figma, Supabase, or Vercel. Tools is deliberately separate from I Offer and I Need: Tools describes what you use, I Offer describes what you can provide, and I Need describes what you're looking for. Keeping these apart makes your profile more precise.
Projects
Shows what you've actually worked on, which gives context a job title alone can't. Use it to highlight meaningful work, products, companies, collaborations, or initiatives. Where supported, other participants can confirm a shared project, which adds trust context around the work described on your profile.
Languages
Shows which languages you can communicate in professionally, useful context for people looking for professionals who can work across specific markets, regions, or international teams. Add the ones you can realistically use in a professional setting.
Portfolio & Contact
Holds relevant external destinations and contact information: a personal or company website, a portfolio, a professional email, X, Instagram, or other supported profiles. Only add links and contact information you're comfortable making public, and prioritize destinations that actually help someone understand your work or reach you for a legitimate professional reason.
Recommendations
Adds context from other professionals: a short note that shows how someone else describes working with you. Recommendations are different from popularity metrics, they're meant to be qualitative, not a score.
Ready to Work
Lets you signal that you're currently open to new opportunities. When it's on, recruiters, companies, and other professionals can tell at a glance that you're open. Turn it on or off as your availability actually changes.
Verification and Trust
Some information on a profile is self-declared, and some is supported through verification or confirmation. UmayNow uses trust signals to add context around professional information, not to measure popularity, it's there to help people make better-informed decisions when discovering professionals, companies, and opportunities. Verification strengthens confidence in specific pieces of information, it doesn't mean every part of a profile has been independently checked.
How to build a better profile
You don't need to write a long profile to make it useful, specificity, accuracy, and relevance matter more than length.
- Keep your role accurate: use the role that best represents what you actually do.
- Make your offer explicit: if you're actively able and willing to provide something, add it to I Offer.
- Make your needs explicit: if you're looking for something specific, put it in I Need rather than folding it into a general description.
- Add relevant experience: show the work that explains your professional background.
- Add meaningful projects: use projects to demonstrate what you've actually worked on.
- Keep your tools current: remove what you no longer use, add what's relevant now.
- Keep your profile updated: your professional situation changes, and your profile should change with it.