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It’s Time to Throw Out the Resume
Application volume is rising, hiring cycles are growing longer, and employers still struggle to see real capability. This article explains why the resume has become obsolete—and how Universal Talent Passports can replace noise and proxies with portable, verifiable talent data.
Becoming the Source of Truth
As AI makes polished resumes, pitches, and online identities abundant, traditional signals of trust are losing meaning. This article explores how people can become the source of truth about their own experience—and how self-understanding and evidence can restore agency and opportunity.
We’re Scaling Artificial Intelligence Faster Than We’re Scaling Human Agency. That’s the Risk.
AI capabilities and the energy systems supporting them are scaling at unprecedented speed, while people remain represented by static resumes, job titles, and outdated credentials. This article explains why human agency must become scalable infrastructure—and why leaders must invest in people and AI with equal seriousness.
PDF Resumes Are Collapsing the Job Market in the Age of AI—Help Create What’s Next
AI has made polished resumes abundant while verification remains manual, weakening trust across the job market. This article explores how Learning and Employment Records and person-owned talent passports can replace static claims with portable evidence—and restore agency to individuals.
When Learning Becomes Visible, the Value School Must Deliver Becomes Clear
As learning becomes portable and learner-owned, schools must provide more than access to information. This article explores how LERs and Universal Talent Passports can transform prior learning, advising, curriculum, and credentialing—and clarify the value educational institutions must deliver.
Time Gives Skills Shape—and Makes Them Visible
As the year comes to a close, many of us look forward to who we want to become…
Making Human Talent Visible
Beyond the Résumé: Making Human Talent Visible in the Age of Digital Credentials 1. Introduction — The Visibility…
Beyond Skills: What Is Talent?
Skills describe what someone can do—but not why, where, or how they will apply them. This article introduces Gobekli’s Talent Tree: a living, multidimensional map of human talent encompassing agency, motivation, identity, experience, wisdom, creativity, intelligence, and potential.
The Resume Is the Broken Keystone in the Last Analog Supply Chain
A few days ago I posted a short line on LinkedIn: “Our economy of talent is built on…
Skills-Based Hiring Is Still Broken. Here’s Why.
Everyone is talking about skills-based hiring. Governments are removing degree requirements. Employers are investing in assessments….