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Layover
Your résumé makes claims. Layover proves them.
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Your résumé makes claims. Layover proves them.
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Unlike reference or background checks, Layover is candidate-owned and portable: you write up what you actually did, a former manager (identity-verified) confirms it, and you get a credential you control and can share anywhere. Verified employment, real exit status, and manager-attested achievements in one link. A real, accountable person stands behind your work instead of another unverifiable bullet point. Free for founding users.
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How do you handle situations where a manager refuses to verify, like can a candidate use an alternate verifier?
@naimz Great question, and it's one of the most important design calls in the whole product. Short version: yes, but it's deliberately not "anyone."
The value of the credential is that a real, identity-verified person who was actually there went on record. So if a direct manager won't or can't, the candidate can use someone else who genuinely worked with them on that role: a skip-level, a close peer, a cross-functional lead, even a direct report for leadership work. What we won't do is allow a character reference or a friend who can't speak to the actual work, because that's the thing that makes most references worthless.
The credential also shows who verified it (former manager vs. peer vs. report), so it's transparent rather than flattening everyone into one "verified" badge.
Honestly, this is exactly the kind of thing I'm trying to get right, so I'm curious: from where you sit, would a verified former peer or direct report carry real weight for you, or is it really only the manager's word that moves the needle?