Collins Akaniru (Creative Collins)

Collins Akaniru (Creative Collins)

Designing a world beyond CVs

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Product & UX Designer, now building what comes after the CV/portfolio. Founder of VERYFY, a capability passport that proves what you can actually do, not just what you claim. Exploring a future where hiring runs on evidence, not credentials.

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Proof of work for your career

We ve spent years optimizing how people apply for jobs, but almost no time fixing how people are actually evaluated. CVs are static. Portfolios are selective. Interviews are inconsistent. VERYFY flips this. It lets professionals build verified capability profiles, so hiring decisions can be based on proof, not claims. If you ve ever felt overlooked because your experience didn t read well on paper, this is for you. https://www.veryfy.io/

Capability-based hiring would remove a lot of guess work from both sides.

The one thing most professionals want fixed is turning I say I can do this into it s obvious I can do this. That s really the gap. Right now the hiring process is built on claims. Having a way to make capability visible and trusted upfront, would remove a lot of the guesswork on both sides. That s where VERYFY is heading; moving away from static CVs/resumes toward more capability-based ways of showing what you can actually do. #BuildingVERYFY

Building a World Beyond CVs

We've been quietly building something around a simple observation: "The honest candidate is the biggest casualty of CV fraud." We talk about how bad hires cost companies money. That's true. But we rarely talk about the skilled professional who lost the role to someone who simply lied better. When the playing field is a document, the winner isn't the most capable it's the most convincing. So the honest candidate does everything right. Builds the skill. Does the work. And still loses out to someone who inflated their title, fabricated their results, and passed the interview by memorising the right answers. That's not just a business problem. It's a fairness problem. The hiring system was supposed to be a meritocracy. Right now, it's a performance. #BuildingVERYFY
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