How it works

A new way to connect
companies and professionals

POP checks identity, organises experience and has it confirmed by the people who worked with each professional. With that information, a person decides.

  • Verified identity
  • Confirmed experience
  • Human decision

Two paths, one ecosystem

What each side does

The professional

  1. 1

    Your experience

    Their jobs, with company, dates and role.

  2. 2

    Your job test (optional)

    If their role has a test, they take it whenever they like.

  3. 3

    One confirmation

    Someone they worked with confirms their experience. Without at least one, they aren’t visible.

  4. 4

    Your identity

    ID document and liveness check.

  5. 5

    Your preferences

    Where they live and when they can start.

  6. 6

    Make yourself visible

    They switch it on whenever they like and show up in companies’ searches.

The company

  1. 1

    Defines its search

    Role, location, working hours, shift and salary.

  2. 2

    Reviews verified profiles

    Experience, references, test and preferences.

  3. 3

    Decides

    Interview, offer, hired or turned down.

  4. 4

    Gets in touch

    When it picks someone, it sees their full name and contact details.

  5. 5

    Hires

    Those who aren’t a fit today stay in the ecosystem for next time.

How trust is earned

Rules that enforce themselves

Identity

  • National ID, passport or residence permit, with a liveness check.
  • Explicit consent is asked for before verifying.
  • Without a verified identity, nobody is visible to employers.

Experience

  • Every job with its company and role.
  • Dates that make sense: the end can’t be before the start.
  • Confirmed experience can no longer be deleted, nor can its role, company or dates be changed.

References

  • A manager’s reference counts more than a colleague’s, and a company email more than a personal one.
  • Nobody can confirm themselves, and the same email can’t confirm the same experience twice.
  • If something doesn’t add up (the same phone as the candidate, an answer in under 2 minutes, a throwaway email), a person reviews it before it counts.

Job test

  • 15 questions per role; each attempt draws 8 at random, with shuffled answers.
  • It’s marked on our server and passed with 6 out of 8, at basic, good or expert level.
  • Employers only see passed tests.

Trust score

  • It adds up identity, experience, references and, if the role has one, the test.
  • References count the most.
  • It updates itself with every change and is fully recalculated every night.

Who is visible

  • With a verified identity and at least one confirmed job.
  • With their city and availability filled in.
  • And only once they’ve switched on “Make yourself visible”.

Why it works

Technology organises and verifies. People decide.

Interviewing, choosing and hiring are always decided by a person at the company.

  • Fewer CVs
  • Fewer emails
  • Fewer spreadsheets
  • More structured information
  • More organisation