Know Who You're Hiring Before the First Interview
CVs tell you where someone worked. Our verification shows you what they can do, how they prefer to work, and whether their credentials check out.
Why This Matters
A CV looks promising, you spend an hour interviewing, and within ten minutes you know it's not a fit. Or worse, you hire someone whose skills don't match their resume.
Our verification gives you checked information before you invest time in interviews: tested skill levels, a work-style profile, a career video and credentials reviewed by our team.
What Every Candidate Goes Through
Each person completes the same 5 steps, combining AI-assisted tests with human review.
Technical Skills Test
A test tailored to each skill the candidate wants to verify: multiple-choice, free-text and, for technical skills, coding questions. Questions are generated and evaluated with AI.
Work-Style Questionnaire
A standardized personality and work-style questionnaire based on the IPIP item pool. Candidates rate statements; results are scored by fixed rules, not by AI.
Credential Check
Degrees, certificates and references the candidate uploads are checked by our team before they are marked as verified.
Video Introduction
Candidates record a short video about their career. Our team reviews it.
Final Interview
A video call with our team covering the candidate's results, motivation and approach to problems.
Verification Report
Everything comes together in one report: verified skill levels, work-style profile, verified credentials and notes from our team's review.
How We Measure Work Style
Technical skills tell you if someone can do the job. Work style tells you how they like to do it.
The Assessment Format
Candidates complete a standardized questionnaire built from the IPIP item pool, a public, research-based collection of personality items. They rate how well each statement describes them.
There are no right or wrong answers. The responses show a candidate's natural work style and tendencies, not a pass or fail.
Dimensions We Look At
Clear Roles: Fixed Scoring, No AI
The questionnaire is scored by fixed, transparent rules. No AI interprets the answers.
Work-style results complement verified skills; they don't replace them. Our team reviews the full profile in the final interview before a candidate is verified.
What You Get
For every verified candidate, you see a structured profile built from checked data, not claims.
The SkillStamp Report Includes
Hard Skills Section
- The verified level of each skill
- Four levels: Foundation, Practitioner, Advanced and Expert
- Strengths and gaps from the test results
- Results across multiple-choice, free-text and coding questions
Work-Style Profile
- Scores on each work-style dimension
- Tendencies in working with others
- How they handle pressure and change
- Standardized, comparable results
Video & Interview
- Career video
- Languages and levels from the profile
- Motivation and career goals
- Notes from our team's final interview
Verified Credentials
- Degrees and certificates checked by our team
- Professional certificates the candidate uploaded
- Education background
- International qualifications presented consistently
Profiles use clear levels and explanations. You can compare candidates side by side because everyone goes through the same steps.
How the Report Is Structured
Easy-to-Read Ratings
Each verified skill has one of four levels: Foundation, Practitioner, Advanced or Expert. Work-style results are shown per dimension.
No Jargon
The layout is professional and user-friendly. Both HR specialists and hiring managers can quickly scan and understand a candidate's profile without confusion.
Standardized Format
Every candidate's profile follows the same structure, which makes candidates easy to compare.
Growth Areas Included
Profiles can include areas where the candidate could grow. Useful if you're planning onboarding or want to discuss development paths.
Credential Verification: Trust Built on Truth
Degrees and certificates are checked by our team. You see verified badges, not just claims.
Human Review
Candidates upload their documents, and a member of our team reviews each one for authenticity and relevance to the candidate's profile.
Anything unclear is followed up in the final interview. Documents are only marked verified once our team has approved them.
What We Verify
- University degrees and diplomas
- Professional certificates
- Trade qualifications
- Academic transcripts
- Letters of reference (when included)
International Qualifications
Many candidates earned their qualifications abroad. Our team reviews these documents and presents them consistently in the candidate's profile. This is not an official recognition (Anerkennung) procedure.
That way, a degree earned abroad is easier to understand and compare, which helps you consider talent from anywhere.
Why this matters for you: You spend less time wondering whether a qualification is real and more time on whether the candidate is the right fit.
What the Video Introduction Reveals
A short video shows things a CV can't. Here's what our team looks at when reviewing it.
Clarity & Fluency
How clearly they speak, their pace, use of filler words, and ability to express ideas without rambling.
Language Proficiency
How comfortably they communicate in the language they chose for the video.
Confidence & Tone
Voice quality, steadiness, and whether they project confidence without coming across as arrogant.
Professional Presence
How they come across on camera: engaged, natural and professional.
Structure & Coherence
How well they organize their thoughts. Do they have a clear intro, main points, and conclusion?
Enthusiasm & Engagement
Genuine interest and energy. Does their passion for the field come through in how they speak?
Reviewed by Our Team
Every video is watched and reviewed by a member of our team. There is no automated analysis of speech, faces or body language.
Why AI + Human Works Better
Pure AI misses context. Pure human assessment is slow and inconsistent. We combine both for results you can trust.
What AI Brings
- Consistent scoring of technical tests
- No names, photos or backgrounds in skill scoring
- Ranking and explaining matches for your jobs
- Fast evaluation of skill tests
What Humans Add
- Review of documents and career videos
- A final interview before verification
- Review of every AI shortlist before you see it
- Final approval of each verification
What This Means For You
Less Time Screening
Review reports instead of guessing from CVs. Focus your interview time on candidates who actually fit.
Verified Information
Fewer surprises about degrees or exaggerated skills. Credentials are checked by our team and skills are tested.
Better Matches
See work-style results and an explanation for each match before meeting someone.
Fair Comparisons
Everyone is assessed against the same standards. Compare candidates objectively, not based on who writes the best CV.
What We Ask in the Live Interview
Our team uses a structured set of questions, so every candidate is assessed on the same topics.
"Tell me about a challenge you faced and how you handled it"
Growth mindset, problem-solving, resilience
"What motivates you in your career?"
Genuine motivation, career clarity, enthusiasm
"What kind of work environment do you thrive in?"
Work style, teamwork, self-knowledge
"What would your first 30 days look like if hired?"
Initiative, planning, job readiness
Structured Assessment
To keep the interview as consistent as possible, our team looks at the same things for every candidate: concrete examples, clarity and motivation.
Strong answer
Specific examples, clear articulation, personal responsibility shown
Adequate answer
Acceptable response but vague or lacking depth
Weak answer
Shallow answers, blaming others, or no clear reflection
A structured interview means every candidate is assessed on the same scale, which keeps the process transparent and fair.
Ethics, Privacy & Data Protection
We take data protection and ethical evaluation seriously. This is how we handle candidate information:
Human-in-the-Loop
People review every verification step that needs judgment, and every AI shortlist before it reaches an employer. AI assists; people make the final decisions.
No Automatic Rejection
Candidates are never rejected by AI alone. Our team reviews results before any verification decision.
Data Protection
Candidate data, including videos, questionnaire answers and documents, is processed under the GDPR and hosted on AWS in Frankfurt. Details are in our privacy policy.
Every candidate's portfolio is public, while their contact details stay private: you reach candidates through SkillStamp messages. We believe transparency builds trust, for both you and the people you're hiring.
Stop Guessing. Start Knowing.
Every matched candidate has completed all 5 verification steps. You get the full picture before your first conversation.