Free to be seen.
Recording your pitch, seeing who watched it and applying with it are free for students. Employers pay; you don’t.
Coming soon
Candidly, you.
One minute. In front of recruiters.
candid is the video-first way into early-career hiring. Recruiters meet you in a 60-second pitch before they read your resume, and you see who watched.
Bring your club in early.
We’re opening campus by campus, starting with student clubs. Sign yours up and we’ll be in touch before we open at your school.
Get in early.
Leave your school email and we’ll tell you when candid opens at your school. Free for students.
Meet the first pitches.
The first student pitches go to a small group of employers, chosen for fit. Tell us who you hire and we’ll be in touch.
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Our mission
Hiring that starts with the person, where everyone starting out is seen and heard and knows who’s listening.
candid is built for talent: faster, authentic connections between people starting out and the teams hiring them, with real-time feedback on every pitch.
The problem
The job market is an echo chamber.
AI is filtering resumes that AI wrote. The problem with traditional job boards is systemic, and it leaves talent on the table.
candid bridges that gap with a video-first introduction, and brings the resume in as the second thing a recruiter looks at.
Job boardscandid
AI writes the resumeYou speak for yourself
AI screens the resumeA recruiter watches you
SilenceViews and saves, as they happen
- 2×as many applicants for each open role in the US as in spring 2022LinkedIn, Jan 2026
- 66%of recruiters say qualified talent got harder to find in the past yearLinkedIn, Jan 2026
- 42%of recent college graduates are working jobs that don’t need their degreeNew York Fed, Q2 2026
More applications, fewer people found. Both sides are losing to the noise.
How it works
Video first. Resume second.
A recruiter meets you before they read about you. Your resume is still there, one tap behind the pitch.
Example profiles, not real candidates.
- 1
The pitch
Sixty seconds, in your own words. A recruiter meets you first.
- 2
The resume
One tap away, as the second look and not the first filter.
- 3
The answer
A save or a message, and you see it when it happens.
Real-time feedback
No more guessing.
You see when your pitch has been watched and saved, as it happens. No more wondering whether anyone looked.
Example activity.
Our promises
What we stand for.
A product that asks you to show up as yourself owes you a few things in return.
Merit, not money.
Nobody can pay to be seen first. Views and saves come from what recruiters think of your pitch, and nothing else.
Your words, your voice.
Your pitch is you, on camera, in your own words. Say it your way, and re-record it as many times as it takes.
Your data isn’t the product.
Employers pay for candid. We will never sell student data.
Who it’s for
One place for everyone in the search.
Candidates
Students and new graduates.
- Record a 60-second pitch in your own words
- See when recruiters watch and save it
- Apply to roles with the pitch you already made
Recruiters
Teams hiring early-career talent.
- Meet ten candidates in the time it takes to read one resume
- Save and shortlist in one tap
- Message candidates directly
Clubs
Student organizations.
- Free for clubs
- We open at your school with your members
- One officer’s sign-up is enough to start
Also on the way: an AI career coach to sharpen your talking points on experience, skills, compensation and benefits.