Resume-free
Articles on Resume-free from the CalHire team: verified skills, anonymous-first hiring, and audit-ready process.
Does an ATS really reject your résumé? What actually happens
The "75% of résumés are rejected by robots" claim has no verifiable source. What an ATS actually does, where filtering happens, and what to do.
July 30, 2026
Dropping the degree requirement: what has to replace it
Removing a degree requirement without replacing the signal makes hiring more subjective, not less. What the degree was doing, and what to measure instead.
July 30, 2026
How to get hired without a degree
A practical guide to competing on demonstrated skill: what to build, how to describe it, which employers to target, and how to handle the question directly.
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