Academic credentials are an established means for employers to evaluate
the capability of a candidate’s prospective job performance. However, the
accuracy and credibility of these credentials are increasingly becoming
questionable. In the current digital landscape, websites such as LinkedIn,
widely used to publicize one’s credentials, does not perform any background
checks on user profiles, and is fraught with individuals either embellishing
their qualifications, stretching the truth or lying outright1
. The same could
be said of Career Builder, Glass Door or Monster. Given the nature and
physical form of academic credentials, they are always vulnerable to forgery,
and the intensity of incidents related to facts distortion and fraud in
credentials are numerous. A recent survey of around 5000 resumes
conducted by the Risk Advisory Group concluded that 80% of CV’s contained
some form of discrepancies, with 57% of these discrepancies being
academic background related and 12% of CV’s containing outright falsified
TrustED is the first-of-its-kind academic credential verification service, that brings honesty, legitimacy, and convenience to the education and human resources industry. TrustED leverages cutting edge blockchain technology to mitigate many of the problems faced in the process of academic credential verification and storage.