Imagine this:
You’re at a job interview. You’ve rehearsed every bullet point on your resume, your LinkedIn headline screams “motivated self-starter,” and you’ve even worn that shirt your mom said makes you look “like someone who pays taxes.”
And then the recruiter asks, “So… what can you actually do?”
Uh-oh.
Welcome to the grand illusion of hiring: We’ve spent decades judging people by their degrees, job titles, or the font they used on their resume (Comic Sans? Bold choice.). But here’s a wild idea: What if hiring started with actual skills?
You know, the stuff people can do, not just the stuff they can list.
The Degree Dilemma
Degrees used to be the holy grail of employability. You got one, and boom, you were in the game. But somewhere along the way, we forgot that a piece of paper doesn’t always equal proficiency.
- A degree doesn’t tell you how well someone can debug a rogue API.
- It doesn’t show how a person handles irate customers without morphing into a stress burrito.
- And it definitely doesn’t reveal whether they can use Excel without Googling “how to unmerge cells.”
Skills Are the New Currency
In today’s job market, skills aren’t optional, they’re the whole deal.
We live in a world where:
- Bootcamp grads are outcoding CS majors.
- Designers learn Figma on YouTube in two weeks and land freelance gigs before their art school buddies even find the “submit” button on Behance.
- People build real projects before they build resumes.
Skills are the proof. The receipts. The “I can actually do this” instead of “I sat in a classroom while this was being explained.”
So What If We Flipped the Script?
What if hiring looked like this:
- Recruiters don’t get just a list of names. They get a list of skills badges and real assessments alongside.
- Candidates aren’t filtered out by the college they couldn’t afford, but by the skills they can offer.
- A hiring manager sees “Built a sales CRM in 2 weeks” before they see “Bachelor of Buzzword Studies.”
That’s not fantasy. That’s exactly what we’re building at Record.
The Record Revolution
At Record, we don’t care if you went to Harvard or Hogwarts.
What we do care about:
- Can you write clean code?
- Can you solve real-world problems?
- Can you collaborate, think critically, and maybe even use semicolons correctly?
We help students and job seekers showcase verified skill badges for real, measurable, employer-relevant skills. Recruiters get AI-verified candidates. Course creators get higher placement rates. And universities finally get to track more than just attendance.
It’s hiring, but without the fluff. Just the real stuff.
The Future of Hiring Isn’t Coming. It’s Here.
The degree won’t disappear overnight. But in a world where anyone can learn anything from anywhere, skills are the great equalizer.
So the next time someone says “Send me your resume,” feel free to reply:
“Sure. Want the PDF, or the proof I can actually do the job?”