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You're not imagining it. Job applications grew 4× faster than openings in 2024. Recruiters now receive 250 applications per role and read fewer than 10. AI helped you write better cover letters — and helped everyone else write the same ones. The signal collapsed.
Source: Workday Global Workforce Report 2024 · CareerPlug Recruiting Metrics 2016–2024 · illustrative
4×
Job applications grew four times faster than openings in 2024. 173 million applications. 19 million roles.
2-3%
Applicant-to-interview rate in 2024. Down from 15% in 2016. Your odds got 5× worse.
250
The average number of applications a recruiter sees per role. They read fewer than 10. Yours is probably one of the unread 240.
You don't need to send more applications. You need a different artefact.
Hiring was already failing — interviews biased for confidence, tests measured the wrong things, applications rewarded brand names over real ability. AI didn't break the system. It just made the cracks impossible to ignore.
The current system biases for people who appear confident and articulate over people who are actually competent. The room rewards performance, not capability — and if you're not the loudest in the room, you lose.
LeetCode scores, case studies, online assessments — they predict how good you are at the test, not the job. They might correlate with general intelligence, but they say almost nothing about whether you can do the actual work.
If your CV doesn't have a McKinsey, JP Morgan, or Goldman logo, you're starting from zero. The system disadvantages capable students who lack those signals — and rewards students who have them, regardless of what they've actually done.
The best engineers build things. The best marketers run campaigns with metrics attached. The best salespeople have close rates. The work is the only signal that matters — and it's the one signal the resume doesn't carry.
On Prove Your Work, you don't submit a CV. You upload your work — code, campaigns, deals, designs, writing — with metrics attached. Startups browse what you've built, not where you went to school.
WHAT COUNTS AS PROOF
A preview of the kind of profiles you'd be alongside. Click any card to see their full work.
Engineering
Frontend engineer who ships.
Marketing
Growth marketer with metrics attached.
Operations
Ops generalist. Closed 3 LP commits.
Design
Product designer with shipped work.
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10 minutes. No resume. Links to your live work.
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Connect GitHub, Stripe, or Analytics. Verified work surfaces higher.
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They browse your work, filter by category, and message you directly. No applications, no cover letters.