Is The Arbor Primus free?
The professional Build, Education Tree, Hobby Tree, and core discovery resources are designed around free access. Eligible verified employers receive one reusable free active job slot: their first active opportunity can stay live until it is filled or closed, with no credit card required. Optional paid products support additional simultaneous opportunities and other features.
What is a Professional Build?
A Professional Build is a connected Arbor Primus record of skills, branches, work experience, education, projects, credentials, and other professional context. It can support planning, profiles, resumes, and deliberate sharing.
What is a professional skill tree?
It is a visual way to organize capabilities as connected branches. The branches can show what you can do, how you learned it, where you applied it, and what you want to develop next.
Do I need to create a skill tree to make a resume?
No. After signing in, you can start directly with the resume path. The Arbor and Resume Ready workflow is available when you want a broader connected source of skills and experience, but it is not required to begin a resume.
How does the first free professional resume work?
A signed-in account can receive one first professional resume free after enough truthful content has been added to create and finalize a useful document. Meaningful direct-resume content can qualify, and the Arbor path can use Resume Ready to guide completion.
What can I add to my Build?
You can add skills, branches, work experience, practical experience, education, training, projects, credentials, achievements, optional evidence, goals, and related context. A separate Hobby Tree can hold interests and personal projects.
Can employers see my Build?
Only when you choose a public or shared view. Builds are private by default. Employers can review candidate-chosen information in a Public Build or application, but private and unpublished content remains outside public discovery.
Are Builds public automatically?
No. Professional, Education, and Hobby Trees start private. You control whether selected information is private, unlisted, or public, and you can change those settings through the existing account controls.
What is an Education Tree?
It is a learning-focused tree for school, training, courses, subjects, programs, credentials, and milestones. It can remain separate from the Professional Build or connect to capabilities when that adds useful context.
What is a Hobby Tree?
A Hobby Tree organizes interests and personal projects. It can stay private or separate, or you can choose to include selected hobby context in a resume or shared view.
Can students and experienced professionals use it?
Yes. Students can start with classes, projects, clubs, part-time work, or interests. Experienced professionals can map broad, changing, or cross-functional capability without deleting their existing experience.
What is a free active employer opportunity?
Every eligible verified employer receives one reusable free active posting slot. One opportunity can remain active until the employer fills or closes it, or until it needs confirmation; closing or filling releases the slot for another opportunity. Additional simultaneous active opportunities use the existing paid employer options.
Do employers need a credit card for the first active opportunity?
No. An eligible verified employer can publish the first active opportunity without a credit card or automatic charge. Drafts, editing, closing, filling, and managing that opportunity do not require payment.
Are employer opportunities public automatically?
No. An employer must complete the existing employer setup and verification flow before publishing. Public active opportunities can be discovered by candidates; private employer data, drafts, and inactive listings are not public.
What happens when an employer marks a position filled or closes it?
The opportunity leaves active candidate discovery, while applications, views, and historical reporting remain available to the employer. The employer’s reusable free active posting slot becomes available again.
Does The Arbor Primus verify every skill or guarantee a job?
No. User-supplied information, optional evidence, platform calculations, and defined verification results have different scopes. The Arbor Primus does not guarantee skill level, identity, safety, employment, income, interviews, or hiring outcomes.