A recruiter scanning two hundred résumés does not read the certifications section. This is rational behaviour. The section has been so thoroughly diluted by certificates that attest to attendance, or to payment, that its information content has fallen close to zero.
The damage falls on the students who did the work. Their evidence has been debased by everyone else's.
The fix is not a better-looking certificate or a blockchain. It is making the certificate point at something. Ours links to a public verification page listing the artefacts behind it — the reviewed submissions, the assessment record, the rubric applied. A recruiter who cares can inspect it in under a minute. One who does not can ignore it, as before.
This only works if the underlying assessment is real, which means being willing to fail people. A credential that everyone who enrols receives carries exactly as much information as no credential at all.
We have had institutions ask us to lower the bar so the pass rate looks better in their annual report. Declining that request is the entire product.
LARE Editorial · 19 Apr 2026