ClearHire: what it does, who it is for, and what it will not claim
A reference check asks how you did. ClearHire asks a narrower question: whether you held this title at this company between these dates. A named person there answers from the company’s records, and the answer is kept under their name, with the date. That is a countersignature. It sits beside the role on your profile and on any resume you publish, and it is the one line on the page that somebody other than you signed.
The rest of the product is what that line needs around it. A resume builder keeps one profile and cuts a resume per role, with PDF and DOCX out and a public link you can switch off again. Career tools, most of which need no account, cover the application, the interview and the number. Companies get the other side of the same record: post a role, search candidates, run the stages, answer a claim.
What a countersignature proves, and what it does not
Three facts, as the company has them: the job title, the company and the dates, confirmed by a named company account with a timestamp you can see. Either side can start it. You claim a role and the company gets 7 days; a company asks and you get 3. Silence expires the request instead of failing it, so a role with no countersignature is not false. It is unconfirmed, which is where every role starts.
It is not a background check. Nobody ran one. It is not an identity check and it is not an endorsement: the company confirmed that you worked there, not that you were good at it. A declined claim stays between you and the company and never appears on a public profile. The whole mechanism, both sides, is on employment verification; the step-by-step is request employment verification.
Who it is for
Job seekers build a profile once, cut resumes from it in the resume builder, search jobs, keep every application on a board with 12 stages, and use the career tools, from the ATS check to the salary calculator.
Companies keep a company profile, post roles, run applicants through the same 12 stages, search for people, answer claims about roles held with them, and exchange reviews tied to a countersigned record, so feedback comes from people who actually worked together.
Where it runs
On the web at clearhire.aoneahsan.com, and on Android. There is no iOS app, no browser extension (dropped in 2.0, see browser extensions) and no desktop app, because the web app already is one. Sign-in is Google only. There is no ClearHire password, so there is none to reset and none to lose. One account serves both, so a resume started on the web can be finished on the phone.
What it costs
Three plans: Free, Pro and Team. Every feature is in Free, employment verification included. Free is a plan, not a trial. It does not run out. A paid plan raises a ceiling, never credibility: a record countersigned on Free is identical to one countersigned on a paid plan. Every ceiling is a count. How many saved resumes, how many job alerts, that kind of limit. The current table is on the app’s pricing page. Anything paid is bought on the web; the Android app shows which plan you are on and never sells one.
Today the only promotions in the product are cards for the developer’s other apps. An organisation that wants to run its own copy of the platform can license it; every figure for that is on the app’s licensing page, and none of it touches the public app. If ClearHire is useful to you and you want to support it, there is a tip jar at aoneahsan.com/payment.
Where to go next
- New here: the quick start, then create your profile and build your first resume.
- The part nothing else here does: employment verification, and the app’s public explainer of how employment verification works.
- Hiring: ClearHire for companies.
- Data, deletion and what is kept: the privacy summary, data export and deletion and the FAQ.
Built and maintained by Ahsan Mahmood — LinkedIn · GitHub.