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Passport to Skills: Why Digital Credentials Are the Quiet Disruptor of the 2025 Talent Market

Passport to Skills: Why Digital Credentials Are the Quiet Disruptor of the 2025 Talent Market

Resumes are noise. Credentials are signal. Here's how the future of talent is being quietly rewritten, one verifiable skill at a time.

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Ileana Scemtovici
May 15, 2025
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Let’s talk about the quiet absurdity we’ve all normalized: hiring decisions, those multi-million-dollar bets on people, are still being made based on resumes.

Documents written by the candidate.

Reviewed by someone who may spend less time on them than on their morning coffee.

Graded by an algorithm trained on past biases and outdated proxies for talent.

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