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Your passport: the identity check, adding and verifying your history, who can read it, and your subscription.
Getting started
- What a certo passport isOne page with the facts about your career that someone actually checked, and who checked each one.
- Creating your account and signing inYour account is your e-mail address. You sign in with a code we e-mail you, or with an account you connected. There is no password.
- Your first steps, in fiveThe Overview walks you through five steps, from the identity check to sharing your page. What each step asks, and when it counts as done.
Your identity
Your records
- Your personal detailsYour name and headline, a short summary, where you live, your languages and skills, where you may work, your nationality and your gender: what each is, and who sees it.
- Your contact detailsThe e-mail addresses, numbers and links a company gets once you approve it, how certo checks each one is yours, and why none of it is ever public.
- Adding your work, education and certificationsEvery job, course and certificate is its own line, in your own words, marked Claimed until somebody who was there confirms it.
- Your rolesA role groups your jobs into one line of work, named from Europe's list of occupations. What a reader sees, and how certo's AI interview verifies it.
- The last five years and career breaksEmployers look at the last five years first. How certo counts them, what a gap is, and how a career break fills time without anyone being asked.
- Import your CV or your LinkedIn profileGuideTurn a CV or a LinkedIn export into records in a few minutes.
Verification
- Asking someone to confirm a recordcerto writes to the organisation you name and asks it to confirm your job, course or certification. Who to ask, why the address matters, and what happens next.
- What each answer meansConfirmed, confirmed in part, declined, no matching record, not the right person, or no reply. What you see, and what an employer you approve sees.
- A company that no longer existsNobody left at the company to ask? Ask someone who was there, or send certo your documents. What Supported by evidence means, and who sees what you send.
Sharing and access
- Who can see your passport, and sharing itPrivate, unlisted or public; what a stranger sees and what stays sealed; and how to share your page as a post or a short video.
- When an employer asks to read your passportApprove, approve only some parts, or decline. What an approved employer sees, the Requests checklist, withdrawing access, and the log of every look.
Subscription and billing
- Your passport yearWhat the yearly subscription includes, how it renews and how to cancel it, what happens when it ends, and your 14-day right of withdrawal.
- Passports paid for by someone elseAn employer, a university or your own company can pay for your passport. What each covers, who can read it, and what happens when the year ends.