Investor Introduction
The missing identity layer for the skills-based economy.
CareerID gives individuals a portable, evidence-based career record — and gives employers the structured skills intelligence they need to hire, develop and report with confidence.
The Problem
Workforce data is broken — and the cost is rising.
- ·CVs don't show capability. They show where someone worked, not what they can do. Real skills stay hidden.
- ·Skills data is fragmented. Spread across HR systems, platforms and spreadsheets — unusable for workforce planning.
- ·Reporting is becoming mandatory. New regulation requires skills transparency. Organisations can't report what they can't see.
The Opportunity
A structural shift — with no clear infrastructure owner yet.
Global Market Context
$42B→$78B
HR Technology market
2025 → 2031 · Mordor Intelligence
$2.4B→$7.1B
Workforce Analytics market
2025 → 2034 · Fortune Business Insights
63%
of employers cite skills gaps as their biggest barrier to transformation
WEF Future of Jobs 202539%
of core job skills will change by 2030 — requiring real-time capability data
WEF Future of Jobs 2025Organisations are investing heavily in workforce intelligence. Skills identity is the missing piece. CareerID builds it.
What CareerID Delivers
One architecture layer. Four connected outcomes.
Workforce Reporting & Compliance
Audit-ready skills data as regulation tightens across financial services, public sector and large employers.
Skills Gap Intelligence
Real-time view of capability versus strategy — plan hiring, development and restructuring against actual data, not job titles.
Internal Mobility & Retention
Make skills visible across the organisation. Deploy and develop talent rather than lose it to external hiring cycles.
Fairer, Faster Hiring
Skills-based screening broadens the talent pool and surfaces capability that CVs miss — including career changers.
Infrastructure & Differentiation
Portable by design. Regulatory-ready from day one.
CareerID is not another HR tool. It's identity infrastructure — sitting alongside existing systems as the connective layer between individuals, employers and the broader labour market.
Individual ownership
Consent-controlled data model. Individuals own their record. Employers access by permission.
Standards-aligned
eIDAS 2.0, W3C Verifiable Credentials, ESCO — interoperable with public labour market infrastructure.
Integrates, not replaces
API-first — connects to existing ATS, HRIS and LMS platforms without disruption.
AI-assisted, not AI-decided
AI surfaces evidence and insight. Humans retain every decision. Ethical by architecture.
Founder
Stephanie Thompson is a workforce strategy and people transformation leader with over 20 years across financial services, executive search and organisational capability.
CareerID was built to address a structural problem she observed directly: organisations making critical workforce decisions on incomplete, fragmented skills data — and individuals unable to make their real capability visible.
Stephanie Thompson
Founder, CareerID