The recruiting process seems outdated as it is long and tedious. Some malicious people are even taking profit from those frictions, and at Kanji, we realized that this week.

The candidate had an astonishing resume, an incredible Linkedin, and was a brilliant speaker. He could even speak deeply and fluently about very technical fields. Everything was so perfect that he could have slipped through the net if we were not that meticulous about recruitment. After four interviews and advanced tests, we were finally sure that he was a fraud.

His specialty? Being hired by companies and getting paid until they understand he's not qualified for the job. In a nutshell, he's an actor that performs on the wrong stage. This ill-intentioned guy cost us the scarcest commodity of all.

TIME.

A full day of work - he was a sharp comedian, so it took a bit of time to uncover him.

This little story perfectly highlights the extent to which it's hard to hire right now - and it seems contradictory at a time when reaching people has never been that easy. Indeed, isn't it paradoxical for Linkedin - the place where you create your professional online reputation - to be the most trusted place but not reliable at all? Isn't that crazy that anyone can claim on Linkedin that he worked for, let's say, Google for three years without any problem? There's no verification either from Linkedin or companies. Why not certify the accuracy of the certifications like Instagram does with their blue badge? I mean, it's our principal usage of the website. Actually, it would require a way to check every time people get a new job efficiently, and with today turnover it appears as a Sisyphean task.

But maybe NFTs and blockchain could help there, so let's think about it.

Imagine companies registering themselves on a smart contract.

They would delegate their Head of HR to register to the Proof of Humanity protocol to be Sybil-proof. Once they are verified, they get the right to list their employees on the decentralized application (dApps). Thus, Linkedin would just have to confirm that people working for X company on their website match the list of the dApps.

We could even imagine Linkedin being NFT-friendly, the smart contract delivering an NFT as a proof of employment, and people having to prove they own the NFT from their company directly on Linkedin. It would be even easier for Linkedin. There is no more need to scrap data on the Smart contract - and with the growing number of people using wallets daily, it could be worth considering in the near future.

Getting on-chain university degrees could also be a game-changer for companies.

A friend of mine recently received a mail from his HR service based in the north of the UK telling him that it was tough to reach his high school administration in a rural area of middle France to get proof of his high school diploma.

It would be so much easier to have a worldwide distributed ledger on which you can verify everyone's diploma.

It would even make developing country students' entry into the professional world smoother. Many people struggle to prove their education level because getting a physical certificate can be time-consuming in some countries where the administration works only thanks to backhander. Some friends had to pay their school or city administration generously to get the official paper, whereas they succeeded in the exams with flying colors.

Achieving to convince reluctant entities to publish degrees on a censorship-resistant but Sybil-proof dApp to make them freely accessible to the world would be an incredible breakthrough.

The concept degree-as-a-NFT could even give another dimension to your diploma.

Isn't it incredible that we finally spend years hardworking to obtain those holly certificates to hide them in gloomy closets? Yet, it's not unusual to see people displaying the school they went through even on their mainstream social media platform, highlighting an anchored desire to exhibit them.

With Instagram becoming blockchain-friendly soon, wouldn't it be fantastic for schools to mint their diploma as some beautiful and well-designed NFTs to allow their students to exhibit them with style on their favorite social media profiles? We're sure that it would turn the spotlight on the first school to do it and boost its attractiveness to youngsters: they would see the diploma as collectibles.

Do not forget that the proper of the human being is to collect.

In our industry, developers are a delicacy.

Ask any of them to see their Linkedin inbox, and you'll be shocked by the number of job offers they got.

Ask them how often they answer; you'll be startled to know it is close to never.

Discussion between employers and developers is broken, primarily because of the lack of efficiency of the hiring process: too many messages exchanged, too many intermediaries creating friction, too much time and energy deployed by companies, etc.

There's too much friction to achieve something that sounds cool at first sight: creating a sensational and shining team.

What matters to spot the perfect dev are contributions, not necessarily university degrees. Yet, Linkedin doesn't correctly showcase this.

Imagine a dApp that resumes on-chain activities thanks to badge NFTs representing your Github commits, programming reputation through contracts deployed - even on testnets.

In the blink of an eye, you would be able to understand how experienced the dev is.

Mazury Labs is currently working a decentralized and censorship resistant dApp allowing people to verify their online reputation.

Check their work out; it rocks.

Recruitment has become more fluid thanks to WEB2, but our tools today are still not sharp enough to cover every job adequately - as we saw with the focus on developers.

Blockchain has been called for long a solution for a nonexistent problem, but we are now profoundly convinced that recruitment is a thorny issue that WEB3 will solve.

It can even be a more accurate issue than you think: with Linkedin banning people who are using NFTs as profile pictures - apes particularly - we need to create a censorship and efficient platform to protect our rights.

The recruiting process seems outdated as it is long and tedious. Some malicious people are even taking profit from those frictions, and at Kanji, we realized that this week.

The candidate had an astonishing resume, an incredible Linkedin, and was a brilliant speaker. He could even speak deeply and fluently about very technical fields. Everything was so perfect that he could have slipped through the net if we were not that meticulous about recruitment. After four interviews and advanced tests, we were finally sure that he was a fraud.

His specialty? Being hired by companies and getting paid until they understand he's not qualified for the job. In a nutshell, he's an actor that performs on the wrong stage. This ill-intentioned guy cost us the scarcest commodity of all.

TIME.

A full day of work - he was a sharp comedian, so it took a bit of time to uncover him.

This little story perfectly highlights the extent to which it's hard to hire right now - and it seems contradictory at a time when reaching people has never been that easy. Indeed, isn't it paradoxical for Linkedin - the place where you create your professional online reputation - to be the most trusted place but not reliable at all? Isn't that crazy that anyone can claim on Linkedin that he worked for, let's say, Google for three years without any problem? There's no verification either from Linkedin or companies. Why not certify the accuracy of the certifications like Instagram does with their blue badge? I mean, it's our principal usage of the website. Actually, it would require a way to check every time people get a new job efficiently, and with today turnover it appears as a Sisyphean task.

But maybe NFTs and blockchain could help there, so let's think about it.

Imagine companies registering themselves on a smart contract.

They would delegate their Head of HR to register to the Proof of Humanity protocol to be Sybil-proof. Once they are verified, they get the right to list their employees on the decentralized application (dApps). Thus, Linkedin would just have to confirm that people working for X company on their website match the list of the dApps.

We could even imagine Linkedin being NFT-friendly, the smart contract delivering an NFT as a proof of employment, and people having to prove they own the NFT from their company directly on Linkedin. It would be even easier for Linkedin. There is no more need to scrap data on the Smart contract - and with the growing number of people using wallets daily, it could be worth considering in the near future.

Getting on-chain university degrees could also be a game-changer for companies.

A friend of mine recently received a mail from his HR service based in the north of the UK telling him that it was tough to reach his high school administration in a rural area of middle France to get proof of his high school diploma.

It would be so much easier to have a worldwide distributed ledger on which you can verify everyone's diploma.

It would even make developing country students' entry into the professional world smoother. Many people struggle to prove their education level because getting a physical certificate can be time-consuming in some countries where the administration works only thanks to backhander. Some friends had to pay their school or city administration generously to get the official paper, whereas they succeeded in the exams with flying colors.

Achieving to convince reluctant entities to publish degrees on a censorship-resistant but Sybil-proof dApp to make them freely accessible to the world would be an incredible breakthrough.

The concept degree-as-a-NFT could even give another dimension to your diploma.

Isn't it incredible that we finally spend years hardworking to obtain those holly certificates to hide them in gloomy closets? Yet, it's not unusual to see people displaying the school they went through even on their mainstream social media platform, highlighting an anchored desire to exhibit them.

With Instagram becoming blockchain-friendly soon, wouldn't it be fantastic for schools to mint their diploma as some beautiful and well-designed NFTs to allow their students to exhibit them with style on their favorite social media profiles? We're sure that it would turn the spotlight on the first school to do it and boost its attractiveness to youngsters: they would see the diploma as collectibles.

Do not forget that the proper of the human being is to collect.

In our industry, developers are a delicacy.

Ask any of them to see their Linkedin inbox, and you'll be shocked by the number of job offers they got.

Ask them how often they answer; you'll be startled to know it is close to never.

Discussion between employers and developers is broken, primarily because of the lack of efficiency of the hiring process: too many messages exchanged, too many intermediaries creating friction, too much time and energy deployed by companies, etc.

There's too much friction to achieve something that sounds cool at first sight: creating a sensational and shining team.

What matters to spot the perfect dev are contributions, not necessarily university degrees. Yet, Linkedin doesn't correctly showcase this.

Imagine a dApp that resumes on-chain activities thanks to badge NFTs representing your Github commits, programming reputation through contracts deployed - even on testnets.

In the blink of an eye, you would be able to understand how experienced the dev is.

Mazury Labs is currently working a decentralized and censorship resistant dApp allowing people to verify their online reputation.

Check their work out; it rocks.

Recruitment has become more fluid thanks to WEB2, but our tools today are still not sharp enough to cover every job adequately - as we saw with the focus on developers.

Blockchain has been called for long a solution for a nonexistent problem, but we are now profoundly convinced that recruitment is a thorny issue that WEB3 will solve.

It can even be a more accurate issue than you think: with Linkedin banning people who are using NFTs as profile pictures - apes particularly - we need to create a censorship and efficient platform to protect our rights.