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Career Crucible
Architecture & Evidence

How the Career Graph Engine operates.

Built on Bid Crucible's proven anti-fabrication technology. We replace generic generative text loops with structured career evidence, sealed audit trails, and causal outcome analysis.

The Source of Truth

The CV is a projection. The Career Graph is the truth.

Every competitor in this category treats the CV as the document to manipulate. When you feed a flat CV into an LLM, it attempts to stretch bullet points to match job descriptions, inevitably introducing hallucinated accomplishments.

Career Crucible constructs a comprehensive Career Graph across 10,000 to 30,000 tokens of verified history. It records STAR stories, team scopes, revenue numbers, and constraints. When you apply for a vacancy, we do not rewrite history: we select and format the relevant nodes that directly satisfy the employer criteria.

CAREER_GRAPH_SCHEMA.JSON STATUS: IMMUTABLE
{
  "node_id": "exp-monzo-01",
  "dates": {"start": "2021-03", "end": "2024-08", "status": "immutable"},
  "scope": {"team_size": 14, "budget_gbp": 2400000},
  "quantified_outcomes": [
    "Reduced 99th percentile API latency from 420ms to 85ms",
    "Migrated 12 legacy services to Kubernetes with zero downtime"
  ],
  "hard_constraints": {"right_to_work_uk": true, "notice_period_weeks": 8},
  "grounding": "Verified via employment contract and P60"
}

Tiered Submission Strategy

We match the submission method to the portal reliability. The highest-match roles are intentionally routed to human-assisted handoff.

Tier Target ATS / Channel Submission Handling Rationale & Research Grounding
Tier 1 Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable Direct Structured Submission Stable structured endpoints; zero ToS violations; 100% parse accuracy.
Tier 2 Workday, iCIMS, Taleo, SuccessFactors Assisted Handoff Multi-step authenticated portals fail ~6/10 in automated tests.
Tier 3 Bespoke Career Pages Assisted Handoff Custom forms require human review to prevent form submission loss.
Top 5% Any ATS (Highest-Fit Opportunities) Human-Assisted Review The roles that matter most deserve human eyes. Never risk a bot glitch.
The Outcome Loop

Diagnostic localisation: knowing why before fixing.

Competitors treat all rejections as "bad luck" or "bad CV writing". We decompose response timing to diagnose the real failure point and apply the right intervention.

<24h
Hard Filter Rejection

Rejection arrived within 24 hours. No human recruiter read your document.

Intervention: Retarget location, visa, comp floor, or knockout answers.
2 to 10d
Human Evaluated & Passed

Application cleared ATS filters and reached a human hiring team.

Intervention: Reframe career graph evidence and adjust seniority tone.
Post-Screen
Narrative Fit Drop

Application converted to recruiter screen, then stalled.

Intervention: CV is proven; coach behavioral STAR stories and domain depth.
>30d
Right-Censored (Silent)

Silence past 30 days is statistically right-censored, not negative evidence.

Intervention: Remove from denominator; never downgrade valid strategy.

Frequently Answered Questions

Direct facts on how the technology operates, compliance with UK employment laws, and our rejection of AI application spam.

Why do you avoid scraping LinkedIn or Indeed?
LinkedIn and Indeed prohibit automated scraping under their terms of service, and enforcement is escalating. Volume auto-apply tools rely on fragile scrapers that frequently break or cause applicant accounts to be blacklisted. Career Crucible integrates directly with ATS structured endpoints (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable), providing 100% legal reliability and zero account risk.
Why are the highest-match roles routed to human-assisted submission?
When a role is a 95% match, an automated form-fill failure is an unacceptable cost. Authenticated multi-step portals fail in approximately 6 out of 10 automated browser attempts. Routing the highest-value opportunities to human-assisted handoff ensures that for the applications that matter most, the honest answer to 'did a bot apply for me?' is no.
How does the two-way editing classifier work?
When you edit your CV, changes are classified into four tiers: Cosmetic (typos, applied silently), Rephrasing (recorded as voice preference), Substantive (new claims or dates, flagged unverified), and Structural (reordering views). Unverified claims render on your own document view but are excluded from automated generation sent on your behalf. We will never assert an unverified claim for you.