One file. Any employer.
Any country.
Standardizing how the world moves professional data.
Credentia One is an open document standard for job applications. Candidates generate a single portable file containing their complete professional record. Employers receive structured, verified data that their systems can read without parsing errors.
How it works
For Candidates (always free)
Fill
Complete the guided form with your professional history, skills, and compliance data.
Generate
Download your .credentia.json file. A cryptographic token is registered to certify your file.
Apply
Submit your Credentia file to any employer. One file, zero re-typing.
For Employers
Receive
Accept .credentia.json files from candidates. Structured data, zero parsing errors.
Verify
Use the Credentia One verification API to confirm file authenticity and integrity.
Process
Ingest verified data into your existing ATS, HRIS, or screening workflows.
The tailored cover letter often feels like writing a sonnet for a calculator.
In a world where the first gatekeeper is an ATS algorithm rather than a human, the romantic notion of hand-crafting each application falls apart. You are not writing for a person. You are filling fields for a database. Credentia One accepts that reality. You provide your complete professional record in a structured, machine-readable format. The employer's system pulls what it needs. The tailoring happens on their side, not yours.
The cost of broken transport
For candidates
The average job seeker submits 32 to 200 applications before receiving a single offer. Each takes 15 to 20 minutes of manual data entry. The same phone number, the same work history, the same compliance answers, typed into different portals built by competing software vendors with no interoperability. Only 2.4% of applications result in an interview. The median time from application to first offer is 68.5 days.
For employers
A typical job opening receives 242 applications. Resumes arrive as unstructured PDFs that the ATS has to parse. An analysis of 1,000 rejected resumes across Workday, Taleo, and Greenhouse found that 43% of rejections were caused by formatting errors, parsing failures, or filter misconfigurations, not qualification gaps. Harvard Business School's "Hidden Workers" study found that 88% of executives acknowledged their ATS was filtering out qualified candidates who did not exactly match the hiring criteria.
Sources: EDLIGO 2025, Harvard Business School and Accenture 2021, Novoresume 2026, ResuTrack 2026
Simple, transparent pricing
Candidates
Generate and download your Credentia One file at no cost. No account required. No data stored. Always free.
Employers
Register job postings and verify unlimited candidate files for 90 days per posting. No per-candidate fees. No platform subscriptions. Contact us for pilot pricing.
The Credentia One schema is open source under Apache 2.0. The candidate tool is free. Employers pay for verified job postings.
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