Every reference, verified at the source.

Students record where they worked, volunteered or shadowed. The supervisor confirms it in under a minute, from their work email. Employers see exactly who confirmed what, and when.

Free for students. No account needed for the person giving the reference.

Priya Raman
Volunteer Coordinator · North Texas Food Bank
Attested
DatesJun 2025 – Aug 2025
Hours120
Confirmed byDana Whitfield
How it was confirmedWork address
Confirmed from a work address at North Texas Food BankDana confirmed through a link sent to an ntfb.org address, a domain AttestIn verified for this organization.

A reference is only worth the checking behind it.

Right now that checking is a person with a phone and a spreadsheet. One state internship programme receives a thousand applications a year, each carrying three names and three email addresses that somebody has to chase. Most never get called. The ones that do get called prove only that someone picked up.

3,000

Reference checks one programme has to work through in a single hiring cycle.

0

Ways to tell a real supervisor from a friend with a personal email address.

18 months

Typical gap between doing the work and being asked for the reference. By then the manager has moved on.

One record. Two very different problems solved.

Students need their unpaid, informal and volunteer work to count for something. Employers need to know which claims they can rely on. The same verified record answers both.

For students

Capture it while your supervisor still remembers you.

  • Volunteer and shadowing hours finally countThe work that never had an HR department behind it becomes evidence you can hand over.
  • Ask once, use it everywhereBuild the record as you go. Every application after that draws on references you already have.
  • A minute of your supervisor's timeNo account, no password, no form to print. They click a link and confirm the record, or decline it.
  • You decide who sees itNothing is public. You grant access to a specific employer, and you can take it back.
  • Stop chasing people over emailReminders are automatic. You can see who has replied without asking again.

For employers

Skip the calls. Read the evidence.

  • References arrive before you doCandidates apply with confirmations already collected, so the slowest step in hiring is finished before you open the file.
  • See who confirmed it, not just that it was confirmedName, job title, how their address matched the organization, and the date. You can judge the source yourself.
  • Weaker sources are labelled, not hiddenEvery confirmation says how it was given: a work address, an alternate domain or a personal address. A weaker source never passes as a stronger one.
  • Compare candidates on factsHours, dates and duties that someone with their name on it stood behind, rather than adjectives.
  • A record you can point to laterEvery confirmation is timestamped and unchangeable, so a decision made today can still be explained next year.

Four steps, and only one of them is yours.

The student does the work of recording. The supervisor does a minute of confirming. Everything after that is just reading.

  1. Record the experience

    The student picks their organization from a list we verify ourselves, then adds role, dates, hours and what they did.

  2. Ask a supervisor

    They name the person who can confirm it. That person gets one link. No account to create.

  3. It gets checked

    We compare the supervisor's address with the organization's verified domains, and the confirmation is stored so it can never be edited.

  4. Share it

    The student grants an employer access to the experiences they choose, for as long as they choose.

What makes a confirmation worth trusting.

Anyone can collect praise. These three rules are the difference between a reference and a testimonial.

Checked at the source

The domain has to match

Organizations are added and verified by us, not by students, along with every email domain their staff actually use. A confirmation from outside that list is labelled as such.

Stated plainly

A weaker source is labelled, not hidden

When a supervisor confirms from a personal address, the record says so in plain words, wherever it is shown. It never quietly reads as a work-address confirmation.

Fixed once given

Nothing changes after the fact

The experience is locked while a request is open and once it is confirmed. The supervisor confirms exactly what they were shown, and a confirmation can never be edited.

Built for the work that paperwork forgets.

Anywhere someone has to prove they did something, and the proof lives in one busy person's memory.

Government and state internship programmesA thousand applicants, three references each, one coordinator
Pre-health studentsClinical shadowing and volunteer hours that already have to be documented
Scholarship and fellowship committeesClaims that need checking before a decision, not after
Court-ordered community serviceHours a judge or probation officer has to be able to rely on
University career servicesStudents whose best experience was never a payroll entry
Licensing boardsSupervised hours for counselling, social work and nursing

Start collecting references that hold up.

Free for students. Organizations are verified by us before anything counts. Takes about two minutes to record your first experience.