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Resume polish is not a skill. Cold-applying is not a strategy. Two and a half focused hours — a graded assessment, a real lab, a live session with a senior in your field — earns one credential that travels with every employer on Shortlist.
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Most platforms that touch hiring optimize for volume. More applicants per role. More roles per recruiter. More signals scraped from more places. Volume is easy to measure and easy to charge for. The thing it doesn't fix is whether anyone in the pipeline can actually do the job.
We're not in the volume business. The Verified path is intentionally slow on the front end so it can be fast everywhere it matters — at the match, at the interview, at the decision. Two and a half hours of real work for a credential that travels with you, in exchange for a job search that doesn't reset every time you switch companies. That's the trade we believe in.
We didn't start with a hiring product and add verification. We started by asking what would make a senior engineer trust a stranger's resume. The answer was always the same: another senior engineer signed off on it, on the record, having seen the work. Everything else on this page is downstream of that one decision.
The average engineer sends 80–200 cold applications per job search. ~5% lead to a callback. 80% of the filtering at the top is on resume polish, not on whether you can actually do the work. There is a better way to spend two hours.
No bots. No proxy interviewers. No recruiter spam. The person verified is the person matched.
Every candidate in the verified pool has earned a Shortlist check — real assessments, real labs, a real interview with our SME team. The vetting is done before you ever open the profile. No resume theatre. No proxy interviews. No bots.
Take your time. Build a profile that actually represents your work. Take the assessments, work through labs, sit with a domain SME. When you're ready, you earn a check — and that check travels with you across every opportunity on Shortlist.
The check is earned through a transparent sequence — and you control the pace. The Verified path is free for candidates. Nothing about your profile goes live without your consent. At the end, you earn a certified resume built from your verified scores.
Structured candidate form. Our AI helps you articulate your experience, skills, and what you're looking for — you edit every word before it saves.
Each section of your profile earns a completeness check as you build it. You always see what's still missing and what strong looks like.
Targeted assessments matched to your domain and level. Repeatable, and designed to show you where your strengths actually sit.
Hands-on work, not multiple choice. Real scenarios in your field so your portfolio reflects what you can do, not what you can write about.
A domain expert sits with you for a live technical session — system design, code review, architecture discussion, whatever fits your field.
Final conversation with our team. You review the SME's written endorsement. Only when you approve does the Verified check appear on your profile.
AI generates a verified resume from your assessment scores, lab results, and SME endorsement. Shareable via link, downloadable as PDF. No fluff — just proof.
The Verified Path is the candidate-facing surface. Underneath, three workflows run in parallel — candidate, SME, employer — and converge at the match. Every role has a human accountable on each side. Nothing happens in a tab nobody is watching.
Shortlist runs two parallel pipelines. The Verified pool is the main product — a reusable, cross-employer profile you build over time. Standard applications remain open for candidates who want to apply to specific roles directly. Both pipelines are free for candidates.
You walk the Verified Path, earn your check, and enter a pool of proven candidates. When a role opens that fits, you're already cleared — no starting over, no repeating yourself.
You can also apply to individual open roles without walking the full verified path. AI ranks your profile against the role; an SME from our team reviews before you're presented.
Both pipelines are free for candidates. Verified gives you more — a reusable profile, an endorsement, and a priority seat on every short list.
Shortlist is built for the domains where resume-only matching breaks down hardest — engineering work where the title says less than the artifact. Here's the surface area today. We won't expand into a domain before we have an SME who can stand behind the verification.
Junior and entry-level pipelines are not yet supported — the verified path is built around evidence at scale, and that requires real work history to assess against. Adjacent domains (product, design) are on the roadmap when the SME bench supports them. We'd rather not run a domain than run it badly.
Live roles from verified employers. Verified candidates are prioritized. Standard applications welcome.
Don't see a match? Submit your profile → We'll reach out when the right role opens.
Modern hiring is full of noise — automation pretending to be people, people pretending to be other people, and resumes measuring nothing. The Verified Path is built to make each of these impossible.
Scripts don't pass assessments. Scrapers don't finish exercises. Bots don't sit through an SME interview. The path was designed to require a real person, end to end.
Our SME knows your face, your voice, and how you reason about your field. Whoever sits in the interview is who gets the check — and who gets placed.
The Orion Shortlist Resume is generated from verified assessment scores, lab results, and SME endorsements. Not self-reported seniority. Not keyword density. Every line is backed by data.
AI shows its ranking logic. SMEs write their endorsement. Employers and candidates see the same notes. No mystery score, no silent rejection.
Every candidate who enters the Verified Path talks to a human. No form letters, no silence. If the path isn't right for you, we tell you why.
Your check travels with you across every employer on Shortlist. Your work doesn't reset when you switch companies or pause your search.
Some choices are made once and held. These are the operating principles that keep Shortlist Shortlist — and the reason we won't drift toward what every other hiring platform eventually becomes.
An employer can't buy a higher rank, a featured slot, or priority on a candidate's short list. Match order reflects fit, not check size.
Your profile is not a product we ship to third-party recruiters or data brokers. The only people who see a verified profile are employers you've matched with — and you control what they see.
The check is free. It always will be. Charging for the credential would make it a credential about money. We won't.
Every candidate who enters the path talks to a human. If you're not the right fit for a role, you'll know — in writing, with the reason.
Models help rank and surface. A human always endorses, interviews, and signs off before a check is issued. Nothing goes out the door under an automated rubber stamp.
If you applied and we passed, you get the reason. If the SME couldn't endorse the work, you see what would close the gap. Nothing happens off-record.
Hiring tech keeps optimizing for the wrong thing. Faster filters. Cheaper signals. More applicants per role. Here is what we do instead, on every row that matters.
Most resumes are self-reported claims. The Orion Shortlist Resume is different — every line is backed by assessment scores, lab results, and SME endorsements. AI synthesizes your verified data into a professional resume that carries Orion Shortlist's certification stamp.
Claude AI synthesizes your profile, assessment scores, domain breakdowns, lab results, and SME endorsements into a professional resume. No self-reported claims.
Assessment scores with per-domain breakdown. Lab results with the actual deliverable attached. SME endorsement in writing. Employers see what you can do, not what you wrote about it.
Unique shareable URL, downloadable PDF, Orion Shortlist verification stamp. Use it outside the platform too — the credential's the same wherever it lands.
Cloud / infra, backend, ML, DevOps, data, security, frontend — the domains where resume-only matching breaks down hardest. The platform is built around what employers in these stacks actually need to verify.
Declare your app, deploy to AWS, sail migrate to a managed K8s runtime when ready. Same handler code. Apache 2.0.
sail migrate — infra, secrets, dataPush source code, get a routed and TLS-secured app. Buildpacks under the hood. Built on Korifi (CNCF), operated by Orion.
cf push + org/space RBACA real talent platform takes three sides showing up — candidates willing to prove their work, employers willing to trust the process, and a Shortlist team that keeps the standard high.
Take your time. Build something real. We'll help you break through — not because we rushed a match, but because the work is yours and it shows.
Start my profile →Stop wading through noise. Post your role and meet candidates who already carry a Verified check — real assessments, real labs, a real interview on the record.
Hire verified talent →We're building a team of domain experts who audit matches, run assessments, and interview candidates. If you want to raise the floor on how hiring is done — work with us.
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