LearnBench for Business

How do you know a candidate did the work?

Every number in your portal is something a candidate demonstrated, not something they wrote about themselves. This page explains what those numbers mean, why they’re hard to fake, and where their limits are.

What “verified” means

A resume is a claim. A verified profile is a record: the candidate worked through the skills your role actually needs and demonstrated each one by answering graded, exam-style questions at the depth the role demands. That happens in real sessions spread over days and weeks, not in a single form. Nothing on a profile is self-reported — a skill counts as demonstrated only when graded answers earn it.

Why it resists gaming

  • Progress has to hold up over time. Material a candidate learned early comes back later in the goal, and those later answers count. Understanding that was crammed or borrowed fades visibly; real understanding holds.
  • Time is measured, not claimed. Hands-on learning time is estimated from focused, active use of the product. Hours genuinely invested in your role is the one signal auto-apply cannot counterfeit.
  • Trajectories, not snapshots. You see week-over-week score movement across the whole engagement. A profile built in one sitting looks like a profile built in one sitting.
  • Breadth across the whole role. Candidates are measured against a passing bar in every area of the role, not one strong topic. Outsourcing a session or two doesn’t move an entire role’s worth of areas.

No single signal is unbeatable. Together they make steady, honest work over weeks the cheapest path to a strong profile — which is exactly the point.

What “prior knowledge” means

Strong candidates shouldn’t grind through basics they already have, so everyone starts with an initial assessment and skips what they already know. Skipped material appears on the profile as prior knowledge: a count of what was waived, never a score. It is never blended into demonstrated mastery, and answers from the initial assessment never move any number you see. What a candidate skipped and what they proved stay legibly separate.

Consent and privacy

No candidate is visible by default. You see a named candidate’s progress only after they explicitly opted in to sharing it with your company for that specific role — an unchecked box they chose to tick. What they share is aggregate: scores against your role’s bars, overall progress, week-over-week movement, and estimated active learning time on that role. You never see their individual answers, never see the initial assessment, and never see anything outside that role. Separately, candidates can opt into discovery: companies hiring for similar skills see an anonymized summary of their progress — no name, no contact details — and who they are is revealed only if they accept that company’s contact request. Candidates can stop sharing, or leave discovery, at any time from their settings.

What this is — and isn’t

This is not a proctored exam. We don’t watch candidates through a webcam and we don’t verify identity — and we don’t claim to. What we offer is signal that is expensive to fake and cheap to read: weeks of graded, measured work against your role. Use it to decide who’s worth a conversation and what to probe when you talk — then run your own interview loop. A verified profile tells you what work was done and how it went; your interviews tell you who you’re hiring.

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