The CalHire Team
The team building resume-free, anonymous-first hiring — verified skills, blind evaluation, and documented process.
CalHire
Why this byline
- Writes from the product itself: every claim about how CalHire works is one the codebase enforces.
- Covers verified assessment design, anonymous evaluation and the staged identity reveal.
How to write a skills-based job description
Most job descriptions are a wish-list of proxies. How to write one around measurable skills, plus the wording that shrinks your applicant pool.
July 30, 2026
Structured interviews: the highest-return change most teams never make
Same questions, same order, same rubric, scored independently. Structured interviews are unglamorous, uncomfortable to adopt, and the best value in hiring.
July 30, 2026
Time-to-hire is a throughput metric. Quality-of-hire is the one that matters
Speed metrics are easy to collect and easy to game. How to measure whether your hiring decisions were any good, and which metrics to pair with which.
July 30, 2026
Why webcam proctoring is the wrong fix for assessment integrity
Webcam proctoring flags disabled candidates, people with darker skin and anyone without a private room. What it costs, and what to measure instead.
July 30, 2026
What skills-based hiring actually is (and what it is not)
Skills-based hiring decides on demonstrated ability, not proxies like degrees or job titles. What it means in practice and where it fails.
July 30, 2026
Introducing CalHire: hiring decided by proven skills, not résumés
Why we replaced the résumé with a verified skills profile, and how anonymous-first, never-ghosted hiring works for candidates and employers alike.
June 16, 2026
Why we deleted the résumé
The résumé rewards pedigree and is trivial to embellish. Here is the case for a verified, portable skills profile that proves what someone can actually do.
June 12, 2026