CanvasedIn Blog

Hiring on evidence, not claims

Step-by-step guides to getting things done on CanvasedIn, and articles on how professionals show their real work and how companies earn their attention.

How-to guides

Step-by-step help for using CanvasedIn.

Recruiters · 8 min read

How to Hire on CanvasedIn: Step-by-Step Guide for Recruiters

From creating your company account to making your first hire: getting verified, defining a role, searching, sending interest requests and running the Eval Room.

Articles

Recommended reading, on the way. Each will appear here as it's published.

Everyone · 6 min read

Why companies should apply to you, not the other way round

Job boards make the best people chase postings. CanvasedIn turns that around: you publish proof of your work, and companies make the case for why you should talk to them.

Everyone · 7 min read

AI writes it. AI reads it. Nobody's actually looking.

When candidates generate resumes with AI and employers screen them with AI, the document stops meaning anything. What evidence of real work looks like instead.

Professionals · 8 min read

Evidence, not claims: writing a work item that proves something

What made it hard, what you did, what changed. How to turn a line on a resume into a piece of work a hiring manager can actually judge.

Professionals · 5 min read

Going Closed without losing your career asset

You just accepted an offer. Why the right move is to go Closed rather than delete your account, and what stays exactly as you left it.

Recruiters · 6 min read

Twenty requests a month: the case for fewer, better approaches

Why every recruiter seat gets 20 interest requests a month, why declines don't refund, and why a limit makes each request worth opening.

Everyone · 7 min read

What a company trust score measures, and what it deliberately doesn't

Briefs sent, feedback given, evaluations that reach a decision. Why the score tracks behaviour toward professionals and never how much a company spends.

Recruiters · 5 min read

Feedback is part of the deal: the five-day rule

A professional who did the work is owed an answer. How the five-day feedback window works, and why writing it well takes less time than avoiding it.

Professionals · 6 min read

Set your evaluation terms before anyone asks

Time limits, formats, unpaid work samples and response windows. Deciding them while calm, instead of in the moment an offer feels flattering.

Recruiters · 6 min read

Hiring across industries: why function matters more than sector

A VP of Sales moving from fintech to biotech is a normal hire. Why CanvasedIn searches by what people do first, and where they did it second.

Everyone · 5 min read

Frontline roles: when the credential is the qualification

For nurses, ground crew and warehouse teams, a licence says more than a story. How frontline profiles work, and how companies find them.