Verifiable digital records of a person's skills, qualifications, certifications, or learning achievements — issued by educational institutions, employers, or credentialing bodies in a portable, shareable digital format.
A hiring marketplace shifts the sourcing dynamic from inbound application management to active bilateral matching — the platform surfaces candidates to employers and surfaces roles to candidates simultaneously, rather than waiting for one side to discover and approach the other. In practice, this produces faster time-to-first-contact because candidates relevant to an open role are surfaced immediately on posting rather than discovered through manual search. The most important factor determining marketplace quality is the depth and accuracy of candidate profiles: a marketplace with 50 million shallow profiles outperforms one with 5 million rich, verified ones in raw numbers but underperforms it in match quality and conversion rates.
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