CareerForge

What’s built, what’s next, and what we won’t build.

CareerForge is in closed beta. This is the whole picture: the finished parts, the unfinished ones, and the things we have decided against on purpose.

Closed beta: you need an invite code to make an account. Join the waitlist to get one.

11 Built

Working now, for testers with an invite code.

1 Being built

Underway right now.

6 Planned

Decided on, designed, and waiting their turn.

Built

Built, and running in the beta

Built means it works today, for testers who have a code. It does not mean you can sign up yet: the waitlist is how you will hear when that changes.

In progress

Being built right now

What we are in the middle of.

Next

Next up

What has to be true before CareerForge can open to everybody rather than to a list.

Later

After that

Decided on and designed, waiting their turn. We intend to build every one of them, and a position on this list is only about when.

Not on the roadmap, on purpose

A roadmap that lists only what a company plans to build is half a roadmap. This is the other half: what we have been asked for, or expect to be asked for, and have turned down. They are commitments too, and we would rather you held us to them.

Building your CV on our servers

We could not do this if we wanted to. A server cannot lay out a document it cannot read, and it cannot read yours. Every page is drawn on your own device. That is why the rest of this page can describe how the product is built, and not just what our policy happens to say today.

Sign in with Google or LinkedIn

Your password is what the key to your vault is made from, so there is nowhere for a sign-in button to fit: it would put another company between you and your own files. It would also put a company you may be applying away from in the middle of your job hunt.

Encryption as an option

This has been proposed, and it will be proposed again, because turning it off would make several hard things easy. A switch that turns the encryption off is a switch that is off for somebody, and once that is true the promise on our front page has quietly become a default instead.

Adverts, trackers and analytics

None on this page, none in the app. People pay us once, and that is the only arrangement we know of that never develops an appetite for the thing we have gone to all this trouble not to be able to read.