dannyking

Thanks! This feedback is super useful for honing our wording. The idea is that you create narratives around each of your key competencies/skills (e.g. programming, design, customer service) - each consisting of cards that outline specific projects, experience or education and then (optionally) back that up with evidence for extra depth. You can then apply to jobs by selecting which of your cards you think are relevant for that particular opportunity and tweak the wording to tailor it to that startup before hitting apply.

We thought it would be cool to be able to showcase yourself, then reuse that with minimal effort later - or just keep around as a way to track your progress as you continue to hone your skills.

Thanks - we are still trying to figure out the best way to describe this. We'll work on updating the copy to better reflect that :)

Thanks for the feedback! We are hoping to make it easier for people to be able to show their personality and passions and to tailor their job applications to each opportunity by making it quick and easy to create a narrative as to why they'd be great for the job, backed up with actual evidence that you can flick through, rather than just a resume-as-a-service. We see it more as cover-letter replacement than a resume replacement to that effect (the idea is you'd attach your resume to this).

Interesting! I'm building a way for people to apply for tech jobs by showcasing their experience, and skills backed up with evidence (www.accredible.com - just posted a Show HN after seeing this thread. Edit: reached the front page!). It sounds like your hiring thought process matches this philosophy!

This is truly excellent - nice work Degreed!

I'm part of the latest cohort (co-founder, www.accredible.com) and I have found the programme to be enormously valuable. If you're starting an edtech company it's definitely worth going for. Really excited about the new format for the next cohort; some awesome changes. Happy to talk at length about my experiences if people request it. Also happy to chat with anyone interested in applying!

Hey, co-founder here. Well put! That's pretty much our vision here; we want people to be able to self-certify their knowledge/learning/expertise by uploading proof of learning onto the certificate itself for all to see - the learning itself is what we should judge learners on, not a grade. This way all learning can be credible on your CV, not just that which was done within a school/institution. Check out http://www.accredible.com/3 for an example of a Cert I made for a Coursera course I did!

Glad you like it!

I think for me the sense of wonder comes from the fact that from very simple rules, complex behaviour can emerge.

Chapter 11, section 9 (on universality) is probably why! www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/section-11.9

This reminds me a lot of Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. A great read!

www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html