Sometimes spelled skills verification. Distinct from a self-assessment or course-completion claim by the focus on reviewable evidence.
Skill verification is the process of confirming that a candidate has a claimed skill — typically by reviewing evidence of work that exercised the skill, ideally with a rubric assessment from someone qualified to apply it. The output is usually a verifiable credential or formal record that the verification took place.
The practical value of skill verification in hiring is that it changes the evidence base from candidate self-claim to third-party-validated artefact. Hiring teams in skills-based hiring contexts increasingly require skill verification because the resume-and-interview pattern produces a high false-positive rate at the entry level.
Every Ewance credential is a skill verification at the granularity of one challenge. The deliverable was reviewed by an industry reviewer or qualified assessor applying a rubric; the assessment is preserved in the credential; the credential is verifiable independently by anyone who clicks through. Skill verification is not a separate process the platform offers — it is what the platform does.
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