How We Keep a Company's Record Honest
We sell to employers, so you shouldn't have to trust us not to quietly edit their record. Here's how you can check we haven't.
3 min readWhy this needs answering at all
The Public Ledger records how employers actually treat candidates, including when they go silent. We also sell software to those same employers. That's a fair thing to be suspicious about: what stops a company paying us to soften their record? The honest answer isn't a promise, it's a check you can run yourself.
Every settled record gets a fingerprint
Once a record reaches a final state, its facts are turned into a fingerprint and published to a public network we don't own or control. Changing the record afterwards changes the fingerprint, and the published one can't be edited by anyone, us included.
You can verify any record yourself
Open any ledger record and press Verify. Your browser recalculates the fingerprint from the record in front of you and compares it against the published one. If they match, that record hasn't been touched since it was published. If someone had altered it, it would fail.
What it proves, and what it doesn't
It proves a record wasn't changed after publication. It does not prove records were never left out in the first place, and no system of this kind can. We'd rather say that plainly than let it be discovered later.
Can a company pay to have a bad record removed?
No, and this is exactly why the check exists rather than just a policy saying so. If a published record were altered or removed, its verification would visibly fail for anyone who looked.
Is my personal information published?
No. Candidate names, contact details and CVs are never published. What goes out is a fingerprint that can't be reversed or connected to a person.
What if I ask for my data to be deleted?
Deleting your record also destroys the key needed to reproduce its fingerprint, so what remains published becomes a number nobody can link to you or to any record. Your erasure rights aren't affected by any of this.
Why isn't every record verifiable?
Only settled records are published. While an application is still live its details can legitimately still change, and publishing a fingerprint of something still moving would be meaningless.