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 really happens, and what to do about it.
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, where it fails, and how to run it well.
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