Quick start
Five steps from signing up to applying for your first job.
1. Verify your phone and email. You need both on file before you can reach anything else. If you signed up with Google or GitHub, you'll usually be asked to add a phone number.
2. Fill in your profile. At minimum, add your full name and either a headline or your years of experience. That's the threshold for starting an assessment. Upload your resume too, since you'll need one on file to apply for jobs.
3. Earn your first verified skill. Go to Assessments, pick a skill, and take the test. Passing earns you a verified badge at that level.
4. Set your AI experience. On your profile, fill in your AI-specific years of experience. Zero is a valid answer, but it has to be answered rather than left blank.
5. Apply. Head to Jobs. "Matched to you" ranks live openings against your verified skills. You get 10 applications a month.
Your dashboard always shows one suggested next step, so if you're not sure what to do, start there.
Your profile
Your profile is what employers see next to your verified badges.
What you can add: full name, email, headline, role title, location, whether you're open to remote work, years of experience, AI-specific years of experience, GitHub and LinkedIn links, a photo, and a resume.
Parse with AI. Upload your resume and MyAmbii will suggest a name, headline, location, years of experience, and role. Nothing is saved until you click "Looks good — apply to my profile." Skills it detects are shown for information only and are never added automatically.
Location. Pick from the autocomplete rather than typing free text. Only a selected location unlocks location-aware job matching.
Role title is used for display and filtering. It does not affect your match scores.
Your photo is only served to signed-in users through MyAmbii. There's no public URL for it.
Certifications
You can add certifications you've earned elsewhere: Credly, Coursera, LinkedIn Learning, PMI, PeopleCert, AWS, Microsoft, Google, Scrum Alliance, Udemy, edX, NPTEL, or anything else as free text. Add a link or upload a file as proof, and tag the skills it covers.
Certifications show one of three trust levels:
| Level | What it means |
|---|---|
| Verified | Confirmed by the issuer. Credly certifications verify automatically. |
| Link provided | You gave a URL, but it hasn't been confirmed. |
| Self-reported | No proof attached. |
Only Verified certifications affect job matching. The other two are display only. Certifications are always shown differently from MyAmbii verified badges, which are green.
If a certification expires, it gets a warning badge, and you'll see a countdown before it lapses.
Verified skills and levels
This is the core of MyAmbii, and most other features depend on it.
A skill can be verified at up to three levels, L1 through L3, from foundational to advanced. Which levels exist depends on the skill — not every skill offers all three.
You earn levels in order. You can attempt the level immediately above the highest one you hold for that skill. If a skill only offers L2, then L2 is where you start; you're not blocked behind a level that doesn't exist.
What a verified level gets you:
- It appears on your profile and on a shareable public certificate page.
- It counts fully towards your match score on jobs asking for that skill.
- It satisfies the requirement to have at least one verified credential before applying to jobs.
Levels expire one year after you earn them. An expired badge stops counting towards matching, but you can retake the assessment to renew it.
What the assessment catalog shows you
Each skill has a row per level, and each row is in one of these states:
| State | What it means |
|---|---|
| Available | You can attempt this now. |
| Earned | You hold a valid badge at this level. |
| Locked | Above the next level you're eligible for. The page tells you what unlocks it. |
| Covered | Below a level you already hold, so there's no separate badge to earn. |
| Expired | You held this but it lapsed. Retake it to renew. |
Taking an assessment
There are two formats. Which one you get depends on the skill.
Multiple-choice test
The common format. You'll see an integrity notice to accept, then a set of multiple-choice questions with a countdown running on our server. Answers save as you go, so a refresh won't lose your work. When time runs out it submits automatically.
You get your result immediately. You'll see your score, whether you passed, and a breakdown by topic showing how many you got right in each area. You won't see which specific questions you missed.
Pass, and you get your badge, its expiry date, and a link to your public certificate.
While you're taking a test, MyAmbii records some things for review: switching tabs, leaving fullscreen, attempting to paste (which is blocked), copying, and right-clicking. These are recorded as signals for a human to look at. They never fail you automatically and they don't change your score or your badge.
Live discussion
Currently offered for one skill and level: RAG Systems L2.
Instead of multiple choice, you have a roughly 20-minute text conversation with an AI assessor. Plan to work alone and without help, since the session is recorded and reviewed by a person afterwards.
During the session you'll see a question counter and a brief you can expand at any time. After each topic, you'll get informal "Reviewer notes" with feedback on how that part went. These notes are coaching, not your result. The official decision comes from a human reviewer afterwards.
If you go quiet for 15 minutes, the session times out. This isn't the end of it. Reload the page and you'll pick up where you left off, with the last question asked again. You can also leave deliberately and come back later.
After you finish, a reviewer looks at your session. You'll usually hear back within a day.
Your result shows a verdict on each part of the rubric, the reviewer's written reasoning, and whether that part affected your badge. You can read the full transcript.
If you disagree with a verdict, you can dispute it once per claim, in your own words. It goes back for another review.
Sometimes a session is marked as not having given you a fair chance to show what you know. That's counted as our assessor's shortcoming, not yours, and you can retake immediately with no penalty.
Retakes
There's no waiting period between attempts.
On the free plan the standing limit is two attempts at each skill and level — your first, plus one retake — but that's temporarily lifted to unlimited attempts until skill purchases launch later this year. The count is per level, so passing L1 and moving to L2 starts fresh. If a badge expires, the counter effectively resets and only attempts after that expiry count.
Before you take your first test
On the free plan, your first self-started multiple-choice attempt locks your free self-started attempts to that one skill. You can keep taking other levels of the same skill, but not a different skill.
Choose your first skill deliberately.
This doesn't apply to assessments an employer asks you to take. Those are separate and don't use up anything of yours.
When an employer asks you to take an assessment
An employer who's shortlisted you can ask you to verify a specific skill. You'll see it on your dashboard and at the top of your Assessments page.
You have five days to start it. After that the request closes and you'd need the employer to send a new one.
Before you start, we show you exactly what the employer will see when you finish:
- Test: whether you passed, your score, and the topic breakdown.
- Discussion: whether you passed. Nothing else — not the conversation, not your individual answers.
These requests don't count against your own limits, and they don't trigger the free-plan skill lock. The employer covers the cost.
If you already hold the badge they asked for, there's nothing to do and no one is charged.
Finding and applying for jobs
The Jobs page has three tabs.
Matched to you ranks live openings against your verified skills, with a score and a list of which required skills you have and which you're missing.
Browse jobs is a manual search by skill, location, or remote-only.
My applications tracks what you've applied to.
What you need before you can apply
Four things:
- Your name and years of experience on your profile.
- A resume uploaded.
- Your AI years of experience answered. Zero counts, blank doesn't.
- At least one verified credential — a MyAmbii badge or a Verified certification.
How matching works
Your score is based only on verified information: your verified skills and their levels, Verified certifications tagged to the skills a job asks for, and your years of experience.
- A verified skill at or above the level asked for gets full credit.
- A verified skill below the level asked for gets partial credit, scaled by how close you are.
- A skill you've claimed but not verified gets limited credit.
- A Verified certification for a required skill counts as full credit for it.
- Skills marked required count double compared to nice-to-have skills.
- Years of experience is a small adjustment either way, never decisive.
Nothing you write about yourself affects the score. Your headline, role title, and location are for display and filtering only.
To appear in an employer's results at all, you need at least one verified skill.
Your application limit
You can submit 10 applications a month. The job page shows how many you have left before you use them.
The count resets at the start of each calendar month, UTC. If you're in India, that's 5:30am on the 1st rather than local midnight.
At 10, applications are blocked until the reset. If an application fails for a technical reason, it doesn't cost you a slot.
Interviews
The Interviews page shows every employer shortlist you're on and where you are in their process.
| Stage | What it means | What you can do |
|---|---|---|
| On their shortlist | An employer has saved your profile. | Nothing yet. |
| Invited to interview | They want to talk. | Accept or decline. |
| Interviewing | You accepted. | Nothing until they schedule. Round details appear as they're added. |
| Offer extended | They've made an offer. | Accept, decline, or say you're still deciding. |
| Hired / Closed / Declined / Rejected | The process has ended. | Nothing. |
Declining an invitation ends that pipeline. You'll be asked to confirm.
Once you've accepted an invitation, scheduling is up to the employer. There's no fixed number of rounds, and we don't promise one upfront.
You'll see the round you're currently on, not the employer's internal notes or their full history on you.
Your badges and certificates
Every badge you earn has a public certificate page you can share, for example on LinkedIn. Anyone can open it without signing in.
It shows your name, the skill and level, how it was verified, when it was issued, when it expires, and whether it's still valid.
If you deactivate or delete your account, the certificate stays verifiable but no longer shows your details.
Your account
Adding or changing a phone or email
Under Profile → Account, you can add a missing phone or email, or change one you already have. Both are confirmed by a one-time code onto your existing account, so you won't accidentally end up with two accounts.
Deactivating
Deactivating hides you from search, matching, and new results. Employers can't shortlist you or send you invitations, and notification emails stop.
Nothing is deleted. Your profile, badges, applications, and history stay exactly as they are. Sign back in whenever you want and everything resumes.
You can give a reason if you want. It's optional.
Deleting
Deleting is permanent. Type DELETE to confirm.
Your name, email, phone, photo, resume, and profile details are removed. Your verified badges remain independently verifiable but no longer carry your name. Employers keep anonymised records of candidates they've interviewed, which is a legal requirement for them.
Free plan limits
What the free plan includes:
- Verified skills and badges
- Job matching
- 10 job applications a month
- Unlimited attempts per skill and level right now — a temporary allowance until skill purchases launch later this year; the standing limit is two attempts
- Self-started multiple-choice assessments limited to one skill, set by your first attempt
- One live discussion session a month — a limited-time launch allowance, not a permanent part of the free plan (see below)
Assessments an employer requests are outside all of these.
A paid plan is coming this year. We'll share what's in it and what it costs before anything goes live.
The one-a-month discussion-session allowance above runs through November 2026 as a launch-window offer. After that, it may no longer be included on the free plan — nothing to do now, just don't assume it's permanent.
Common questions
Why can't I start an assessment? Check your profile has your full name and either a headline or years of experience. On the free plan, also check whether your first attempt locked you to a different skill.
Why can't I apply for this job? You need a complete profile, a resume, your AI years of experience answered, verified badges at all three levels of the same skill — Foundational, Practitioner and Advanced — and applications left this month.
My discussion session says it expired. Reload the page. Idle sessions time out but resume where you left off.
I've finished my discussion assessment. When do I hear back? A person reviews it, usually within a day.
My badge expired. Badges last a year. Retake the assessment to renew it.
Why don't I appear in employer searches? You need at least one verified skill. Claimed-but-unverified skills aren't enough.
Do I lose an application if something goes wrong? No. Failed submissions are credited back automatically.