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Skill intelligence for evidence-based decisions
Field notes on designing fair, predictive assessments and turning candidate evidence into decisions you can defend.
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Item quality signals: the questions quietly weakening your assessment
Difficulty and discrimination, read from real candidate responses, reveal the questions that add no signal or fail to tell strong candidates from weak — and how the 'Needs attention' flag surfaces them with the reason attached.
Assessment quality · Jul 30, 2026 · 7 min read
Integrity, layer by layer: how SkillCort protects what a score means
Browser lockdown, 18 AI observations across webcam, screen and audio, answer forensics, and collusion analytics — every layer ending at a human verdict, never an automated one.
Assessment integrity · Jul 26, 2026 · 9 min read
Blueprint, competency, skill: three words that aren't the same thing
A skill, a competency, and a role blueprint sit at three different scales — and keeping them distinct is what turns an assessment into a hiring decision you can defend.
Decision evidence · Jul 23, 2026 · 7 min read
How AI interviews work — and how to keep them fair
Structured questions, adaptive follow-ups, and a transcript a human scores against a rubric — what a defensible AI interview looks like, and the anti-patterns to avoid.
Evaluation · Jul 14, 2026 · 8 min read
Skills-based hiring: the complete guide
What skills-based hiring is, why decades of selection research back it, and a repeatable method to run it — from role blueprint to a defensible decision.
Skill-based hiring · Jul 9, 2026 · 14 min read
Evidence over assumption: building hiring decisions you can defend
Why a decision file — work-sample outputs, rubric scores, and an audit trail — beats a single number, and how to assemble one your whole panel trusts.
Decision evidence · Jun 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Designing work-sample tasks that predict on-the-job performance
A repeatable method for turning a role's real work into a fair, scorable task — without rebuilding it for every req.
Work-sample design · Jun 12, 2026 · 7 min read
Calibrating evaluators: how to make rubric scores agree
Practical calibration rituals that shrink scorer drift and make multi-evaluator scoring consistent and explainable.
Evaluator calibration · May 30, 2026 · 6 min read
Proportional integrity: security that respects candidates
Tab-switch and copy/paste signals belong on a risk timeline a human reviews — not in an automatic reject. Here is the balance.
Integrity · May 21, 2026 · 5 min read
Real skill over claimed skill: rethinking the resume screen
What changes when the first signal in your funnel is a work sample instead of a self-reported skills list.
Skill-based hiring · May 9, 2026 · 6 min read
From score to story: reading a candidate evidence wallet
A walkthrough of the evidence behind a score — task outputs, rubric notes, and integrity signals — so panels decide together.
Decision evidence · Apr 28, 2026 · 7 min read
AI as decision support, not decision maker
How SkillCort uses AI to summarize and surface evidence with model/version logging — while every decision stays with a person.
Evaluation · Apr 15, 2026 · 5 min read
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