As a hiring manager, I couldn't trust resumes. My team wasted so much time on screening calls, only to find the candidates weren't a match. There was no real proof-of-work, and with AI now writing resumes, the noise is just getting worse.
As a candidate, it was just as frustrating. My past work didn't help me get better roles; it felt like I was starting over every single time because my performance signals were buried in old company HR tools that no one could see.
how does badge handle situations where someone’s past coworkers just dont respond, or worse, quietly say something not so great - does that drag the score down unfairly?
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@burakalnta71tv Great question - Thanks for the question
One review does not pull the trustscore drastically. This is how trustscore is calculated -
The Trust Score is calculated using authenticated review from colleagues focusing on essential traits: work quality, reliability, professionalism, communication skills, and resilience under pressure. Key influencing factors - Volume: Accuracy increases as you collect more reviews, Recency: New reviews are given higher priority, Reviewer Credibility: Reviews from users with high trustscore carries more significance andConsistency: Recurrent themes identified across different reviews are heavily weighted.
New users begin with a baseline score of 60. As you maintain a presence on Badge, your reputation grows and compounds, making your professional standing increasingly credible over time.
How does Badge verify that peer reviews are authentic and representative while preventing biased, coordinated, or fraudulent feedback from influencing a candidate's trust score?
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@satyam_raina1 We know that Representation will come with volume, once a person as say 10+ reviews. We have put a lot of checks like work email auth and agent probing to prevent fraudulent feedback
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Anonymous review part is really interesting. It reminds me of the good old times, when people used to comment on your wall anonymously. Would a person be able to share a link on their linked profile or like in a post for requesting reviews from all their colleagues ? Or does it have to be a single link for an individual?
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@nischaydhima Yes you can share your badge profiles publicly and get reviews as well. We do have an integration that allows you to post your trust score as a banner on LinkedIn.
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@nischaydhiman Yes NIshchay Users can put Badge QR on resumes, LinkedIN profiles, and in email signature as well
The anonymous review angle is really clever. One thing I'm curious about is portability. Do you see Trust Scores eventually becoming something ATS platforms can pull directly, kind of like a credit score?
Congrats on the launch!
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@jasnoor_singh_oberoi Yes that's exactly what we are aiming for.
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@jasnoor_singh_oberoi Jasnoor, yes the eventual goal is to integrate the trustscore into ATSs so that based on trustscore less relevant candidates get filtered out. Thanks for your comment. DO you have any feature requests?
Love this: proof of work instead of resume claims. Feedback that's already out there (Slack threads, old reviews) just never gets surfaced. Curious how you keep people motivated to actually respond once it's anonymous. Congrats on the launch!
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@irahimiam As you leave a review for your peer it helps you build your trust score as well, which in itself is an incentive.
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@irahimiam Arash, people give reviews to increase their trustscore which increases their dicoverability to the recruiters. that's the core loop
"Proof of work" for humans, collected by agents — clever inversion. Reference checks are broken and everyone knows it. How do you prevent the peer reviews from becoming polite noise?
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@medal411 Every review has a quality score which we derieve using sentiment analysis and network analysis of the graph. Yes we have our own graph. Since reviews are anonymous unlike LinkedIn recommendations there is no need to be polite.
@lokesh_motwani1 Anonymous + quality-scored through your own graph is a clever way to kill the politeness bias of LinkedIn recs. Thanks for explaining — congrats on the #1 spot today!
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@medal411 Thank you. Do you have any feature requests or suggestions? Would really appreciate it
It would be great if reviewers could endorse specific projects rather than only overall performance. Is that such a feature? BTW, congrats on the launch :)
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@zerotox Yes, reviewers do get an option to elaborate on specific projects the person has worked on which gives a much more in-depth review as well.
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@zerotox THanks for this feature request. So this is how it works. I have attached few images,
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