United Airlines

Two of your live SkillBridge postings, read against what your screen can and can’t verify.

This is your own posting text, nothing added. Two IT internships, same employer. One lists only technical requirements. The other writes “communication skills” straight into the mandatory list — and neither is something the screen can actually measure.

Role 1 — all technical

Senior Developer. The requirements are pure stack — and the job description quietly runs on communication.

screen can verify this required, but nothing measures it

Senior Developer — ITHouston, TX · DIB

✓Bachelor’s in CS/ITCredential

✓5 years .NET and SQL Server developmentVerifiable

✓C# / VB.NET, ASP.NET, MVC, AngularTestable

●“Apply proven communication… skills to identify, communicate and resolve issues” — in the job description, not the checklistUnmeasured

●“Strategic partnership between business needs and technology” — translation, judgmentUnmeasured

Read the posting verbatim

United Airlines Inc (UAL)Senior Developer– Information TechnologySummary DescriptionThe purpose of this internship is to provide interns with the knowledge, skills and abilities required to transition to full time employment as a United Airlines Senior Developer-IT. The training program is designed to provide interns with the opportunity to learn, the people, the process and the culture. Through this process they will also demonstrate their skills, which will allow United Airlines to better understand what developmental training is needed as well as allowing United Airlines to assess each intern for possible full-time employment. (Note: The objective of the program is to provide full time employment to all interns who meet training objectives and receive positive performance appraisals. However, an offer of full-time employment is not guaranteed.) Job Description: The Senior Developer plays a Critical role in creating and maintaining the strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery. The Senior Developer's role is to lead the efforts to plan, design, develop and launch efficient systems and solutions in support of core organizational functions. This individual will apply proven communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate and resolve issues, opportunities or problems in order to improve the benefit of IT and Business investments. The Senior Developer is highly experienced and has decision-making authority.

Role 2 — where you wrote it down

IT Analyst. Here communication isn’t implied — it’s a mandatory requirement, in writing. And still nothing measures it.

Analyst — ITHouston, TX · DIB

✓Bachelor’s or 4 years relevant experienceCredential

✓3–5+ years IT/business experienceVerifiable

✓Agile scrum, user stories, UATTestable

●“Communication Skills — the ability to communicate verbally and in writing with all levels of employees and management” — listed as a requirementUnmeasured

●“Explain difficult concepts to both technical and non-technical users”Unmeasured

●“Natural analytical way of thinking / problem solving”Unmeasured

Read the posting verbatim

United Airlines Inc (UAL)Analyst – Information TechnologySummary DescriptionThe purpose of this internship is to provide interns with the knowledge, skills and abilities required to transition to full time employment as a United Airlines Information Technology Analyst. The training program is designed to provide new employees with the opportunity to learn, the people, the process and the culture. Through this process they will also demonstrate their skills, which will allow United Airlines to better understand what developmental training is needed. (Note: The objective of the program is to provide full time employment to all interns who meet training objectives and receive positive performance appraisals. However, an offer of full-time employment is not guaranteed.) Job Description: In the analyst role, you will be responsible for performing detailed requirements analysis, documenting processes, crafting user stories, triage issues, facilitating meetings analyzing data and/or support functional/user acceptance testing.

You already wrote the durable layer into the requirements

Every role has a technical layer — the stack, the years, the degree. Your screen verifies it, because it’s pass/fail.

Every role also has a durable layer — communication, translation between technical and business, analytical judgment. In your Analyst posting you didn’t leave it implied: you wrote “Communication Skills” into the mandatory list, in as many words. And there’s still no line on the screen that measures it.

That’s the proof in your own hands: the difference between the two postings isn’t whether the durable layer matters — it’s only whether someone happened to type it. The screen treats both the same way, and takes it on faith either way.

In one posting the durable layer is implied; in the other you made it a written requirement. The screen can’t tell the difference — it verifies the credential and trusts the rest. Writing it down didn’t make it measurable.

That gap matters more under the 75% offer commitment SkillBridge providers carry: you named communication as mandatory and still can’t read it before you host. That second layer is what PowerTechs measures.

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Built from United Airlines’s public DoD SkillBridge listings. Requirements are verbatim; the layer labels are ours. PowerTechs · Austin, TX · DoD SkillBridge provider · calendly.com/powertechs