Collins Akaniru (Creative Collins)

Collins Akaniru (Creative Collins)

Designing a world beyond CVs
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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...

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...

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...

Hello Product Hunt 👋

Hello 👋 I believe the CV is one of the most inefficient systems still widely accepted today. It reduces real capability into bullet points and leaves hiring decisions to guesswork. I'm Collins, and I'm building VERYFY to change that. Instead of telling people what you can do, you prove it and get verified for it. No more "we'll get back to you." No more being lost in a stack. Just clear,...