SpringRole: Fighting Lies in Resumes

Imagine you are a big employer hiring a job-seeker on the spot just because you are impressed with a provided resume stating that the applicant “is of Oxford University, having a solid experience as a chief programmer in Microsoft with hard-to-find soft & hard skills”. With great pleasure, you employ him hoping that such a worker will drive your company to success.
Over time, you realize that this employee is good-for-nothing and does damn all, while his wrong decisions yield your business severe losses. Utterly disappointed, you fire him out and vow not to trust attractive resumes again.
Now imagine that there are no falsified resumes anymore, and every word in a person’s profile is checked and verified by dedicated attestors to ensure everything claimed is true. This is what SpringRole is all about.

What is SpringRole?

It is essentially a decentralized, blockchain-enabled platform for professional-profile verification and attestation. SpringRole is a digital solution, verifying resumes and recommendations on the blockchain. With such a sophisticated protocol, providing incorrect/false information and fake credentials in a candidate’s CV will become simply impossible.
Before SpringRole appeared, companies had to perform all reference checks and attestations on their own, losing time and efforts, while involving a lot of middlemen. Such a verification process got way more difficult when there was a necessity of some translation or getting in touch with foreign entities (for example, in a case when an interviewee claims to graduate Cambridge University and applies for a job in an Australian-based company. The company then needs to contact the University to find out whether the applicant has ever been enrolled).
SpringRole will allow people to have attested professional profiles and create trusted, verified resumes to share and use. A candidate’s professional profile will consist of educational qualifications, employment history, and skill set. Declared skills will be verified in a crowdsourcing manner, while educational qualifications and previous job experience – via organizational attestations.

Who will Perform Attestations?

Obviously, the veracity of resume claims will be validated by attestors registered with the platform. They will be:

Individuals like professors, teachers, workers, etc who can endorse candidates for having this or that skill or participating in some project.
Companies can verify a user’s credentials by confirming that he/she really worked for them.
Universities can also attest professional profiles of SpringRole users by acknowledging that they obtained relevant degrees.
Course Providers can also attest the platform members by proving that an applicant has completed some courses.
Examination Providers can test a candidate and then report on the outcomes to the platform.

Once verified, resumes will be recorded on the SpringRole blockchain to ensure their security and authenticity. Given the principle of how the Blockchain works (information, stored in blocks, cannot be deleted or changed), the question is: what should a person do with his/her resume trapped in the blockchain when he/she develops new skills, gets a new education or has a new work experience? How will these changes appear in the distributed ledger?
The matter is that the platform will have the functionality of current professional networking websites such as updating the information. An additional entry can be made as an amendment that will properly reflect the current status of a resume, including fixing any past errors that might have been committed to the blockchain by the company a candidate worked for.
You can try SpringRole right now because they released a beta version of their platform! Are you ready to get rid of all false statements in your CV? Go on then!

SpringRole token and ICO Details

Their public presale is going on and will last up to 15th June. A minimum contribution is 10 ETH, a maximum is 500 ETH. Participation gives you a 40% bonus. The token price is 0.00002 ETH. The total token volume is 10,000,000,000 where for sale available only 2,550,000,000 tokens. The public sale periods are 1st July – 31st July, a minimum contribution, as well as other details, are to be announced. It is only known that some countries are restricted from participating in their ICO (Belarus, Central African Republic, China, Cuba – the list is pretty long).
The fuel of the platform is the SPRING token, an ERC-20 –friendly utility token. The token will be used to compensate SpringRole users for different activities including:

Bringing new users (both individual and institutional) to the platform;
Completing a profile and undergoing attestations in the network;
Endorsing and attesting the skills of candidates.
Companies will also need to pay SPRING tokens to have access to an extensive database of verified, falsity-free resumes.

Bottom line

A brainchild of Kartik Mandaville, SpringRole is basically a blockchain-powered platform to test and verify user’s professional profiles. Thoroughly checking every claim of a resume, SpringRole will ultimately promote effective employee-job seeker relationships and deliver the former from any stress associated with dealing a bad worker. As for a candidate… Well, there will be no room for telling lies in a resume! Do you like the idea? It depends on your professional status though. If you are an employer, you cannot help loving the idea. But if you are off-the-job …