What people ask before they trust this
Seven of these get asked almost every time, so they are answered in one line each below and at greater length underneath. Where the honest answer is unflattering — a company that never replies, a reply that takes days — it says that instead of something better.
The productVerified employmentYour dataCost and the appWhen it goes wrong
The seven short answers
One line each. Follow any of them down for the longer version.
What is ClearHire?
Career tools, a resume builder, and employment history a named company can confirm.
What does “verified employment” actually prove?
That someone at your former employer confirmed the company, the job title and the dates from their own records. Nothing else.
What if a former employer never responds?
After 7 days the record is marked expired — unconfirmed, never declined — and you can send it again.
Who can see my profile?
Nobody, until you publish something. Four things can become public, and every one of them is reversible.
What is free, and what is paid?
Everything most people need is free, verified employment included. Pro raises volume limits and costs $90 a year.
How do I delete my account?
One page, immediately, without asking anyone. Two categories of record survive, and both are named.
Something is wrong. How do I report it?
The contact form, or an email. It reaches one person, who usually replies within a few days.
The product
What is ClearHire?
Three things: about 53 small career tools, a resume builder that exports real PDF and DOCX files, and employment history a named company can confirm.
The third one is the reason the other two are here rather than somewhere else. More about what it is and is not
What is it not?
Not a background-check service, not a reference, not a job board, and not an identity guarantee. We ask a company to confirm employment; we do not check criminal records, credit or right to work, and nobody is asked whether you were any good.
Do I need an account?
Not for most of it. Most tools work with no account at all — paste something in, read the answer, close the tab.
You need one to keep a resume, to claim employment for verification, or to track applications. Signing in is Google only.
Are the tools any good?
They are useful and they are estimates. A resume score, a salary figure or a quiz result comes from a heuristic; none of them predicts an outcome, and any that claimed to would be lying.
Where does it run?
The web, and an Android app. There is no iOS app and no browser extension, so nothing on this site refers to one. Everything except buying a plan works identically in both places.
Verified employment
The precise wording is terms clause 05. These are the same answers without the legal register.
What does a verified record actually prove?
That a named person at your former employer checked your claim against that company’s own employment records and confirmed three facts: the company, the job title, and the dates. Their name, their role and the date are part of the record.
It is a smaller claim than most verification badges make, and it is one we can stand behind. See a real record
What if a former employer never responds?
A company has 7 days. If nobody answers, the record is marked expired — unconfirmed, and never declined or false. Most requests that fail reach an inbox belonging to somebody who left.
Nothing is counted against you, nothing is shown to anyone, and a Send again button appears. Re-sending starts a fresh seven days, and every attempt stays on the record rather than pretending the first never happened.
What if they say no?
A declined record is private: you, the company, and us. It never appears on your public profile, is never shown to an employer, and is never counted against you anywhere in ClearHire.
Most declines are a disagreement about a date rather than a denial that you worked there. Payroll often holds a start date HR does not, so asking the company directly is usually faster than disputing it.
I disagree with what a company confirmed. What now?
Raise a dispute on the record and a person reads it, usually within five working days.
We will not change a company’s answer without asking them, and we will never remove their record of what they confirmed — a confirmation that could be withdrawn without trace would be worth nothing to anybody reading it.
Can a company change its answer after confirming?
It can dispute a record it countersigned, which flags the record and shows both positions. It cannot silently delete one. You are told when it happens, by email and in the app, with the reason they gave.
What if the company no longer exists?
Then the role stays unconfirmed, and that is a limit of the product rather than a problem with you. Companies dissolve and HR teams change; most people have several records that were never confirmed.
An unconfirmed role still sits on your profile and still goes on a resume. It simply has no countersignature next to it.
Will a verified record get me hired?
We have no idea, and any number we gave you would be invented. What it does is remove one question from a hiring conversation: whether the job on your resume happened.
Your data and your account
Who can see my profile?
Nothing about you is public by default. Four things can become public, each by an action you take and each reversible:
- a resume you give a public link — switching the link off makes it private again;
- a public profile, if you create one, showing only what you choose;
- countersigned employment records — only confirmed ones, never a pending, declined or expired one;
- forum posts, which are public when written, as forums are.
The same list, in the same words, is clause 03 of the privacy policy.
How do I delete my account?
From the deletion page, yourself, immediately. No support ticket, no waiting period and nobody to persuade.
Two categories survive, and both are deliberate: an identity-verification dispute and an abuse report. A dispute erasable by deleting the account that caused it would make deletion a tool for hiding fraud. Forum posts are anonymised rather than removed, so other people’s replies still make sense.
Why is Google the only way to sign in?
Because then there is no ClearHire password — none to choose, none to forget, and none for us to lose in a breach. We never see one.
The trade is real and worth stating: your ClearHire account is only as secure as your Google account, and if you cannot use a Google account you cannot sign in at all.
Do you use cookies?
No cookie is set for any preference. Ten appearance settings and the sign-in session are kept in the browser’s localStorage, under keys prefixed clearhire:.
Every key is listed, with what it holds and how to delete it yourself in about thirty seconds. Cookies and browser storage
Do you sell my data?
No. There are no advertising networks in this product and no data brokers. The only promotions you will see are for the same developer’s other apps.
Your data reaches other parties in exactly three ways: a company you ask to confirm a claim, an employer you apply to, and the service providers that run the product — all of them named, with their role.
Cost, plans and the app
What is free, and what is paid?
Free is not a trial and it does not expire. Verified employment — the thing this product exists for — is on Free and stays there.
Pro raises volume and convenience limits: how many resumes you keep, how many exports a month, how many claims can be in flight at once. It never buys credibility — a record countersigned on Free is identical to one countersigned on Pro. The full comparison
How much is Pro?
$90 a year, which works out at $7.50 a month — or $9 a month if you would rather pay monthly. The yearly price is 17% lower per month; both buy the same thing.
Verified employment is on Free and stays there, so Pro buys volume and convenience and never credibility. Free limits are deliberately generous while the product is being built.
Why can I not buy Pro in the Android app?
Google Play requires its own billing for in-app purchases of digital goods, and ClearHire takes payment elsewhere. The two cannot both be true on one screen, so the app shows your plan and gates features but never sells one — there is deliberately no purchase button in it, not even a disabled one.
Open ClearHire in a browser and go to Settings, then Plan and limits. It is the same account, and a plan bought there works in the app on the next sync.
What happens to my things if I stop paying?
Nothing is deleted. Anything above the Free limit becomes read-only — you can still open it and export it — and you can bring the count back under the limit whenever you like.
Countersigned records are never affected: they belong to your account permanently and are not gated by any plan.
When something goes wrong
Something is wrong. How do I report it?
The contact form, or email aoneahsan@gmail.com. Both reach the same inbox.
If it is a bug, what you did and what happened instead is worth more than anything else you could write.
How long until someone replies?
Usually a few days. Sometimes longer.
ClearHire is built and maintained by one person. There is no support team and no ticket number, and a person reads what you send. That is slower than a support desk and rather more useful.
A page here says something the app does not do.
Then one of the two is wrong, and we would like to know which. Every claim on this site is written to survive being checked, so a contradiction is a defect rather than marketing licence.
Send the page and the sentence. Report a correction
Not answered here
Three places, depending on what kind of answer you need. All three reach something real rather than a help-centre search box.
Ask a person
A contact form that reaches one inbox, plus the email address and phone number for reaching it directly.
Read the exact wording
Numbered clauses you can cite and link to, including what a record asserts and what is stored in your browser.
The longer explanations
Why an expired request is not a rejection, what a countersignature is worth, and what a resume is for once software has read it.
A question asked twice ends up on this page. If yours is not here, it is probably worth adding — say so when you write.