# Skilyo

> Skilyo is a job platform for verified AI, tech and science talent, serving the UK, India and remote-global. Candidates prove their skills through a timed, integrity-monitored assessment and earn a Verified badge; employers hire from that pool. Operated by Hridtech Private Limited. Skilyo publishes its own hiring metrics rather than asking users to take them on trust.

## What makes Skilyo different

- Candidates are skill-verified by assessment, not by self-reported CV claims.
- Employers are verified before a role goes live.
- Skilyo publishes its own posting-to-hire rate, reply rate, median days to a human reply, and verification pass rate at https://app.skilyo.com/transparency — each figure withheld until it has at least 30 data points, with the method stated. No other job board in the UK–India corridor publishes these.

## Guides

- [Are ghost jobs illegal in the UK?](https://skilyo.com/are-ghost-jobs-illegal-uk) — Ghost jobs are not illegal in the UK; the Employment Rights Act 2025 created no duty to confirm a vacancy is real. Ontario, by contrast, requires employers with 25+ staff to state whether a posting is for an existing vacancy, from 1 January 2026.
- [Can employers tell you used AI on your CV?](https://skilyo.com/can-employers-tell-you-used-ai-on-your-cv) — Not reliably: detector accuracy runs 65-90% with false-positive rates of 15-45% on some platforms. Critically, detectors misclassify non-native English writing as AI-generated, with false-positive rates exceeding 20% for that group in some studies, because they flag predictable vocabulary and formulaic structure. Employers are responding by verifying skills rather than policing prose.
- [Why you are not hearing back from job applications](https://skilyo.com/why-you-are-not-hearing-back-job-applications) — Hires per US posting fell from 0.75 in 2018 to below 0.5 by 2023 (Revelio Labs), which halves the signal value of a posting rather than proving adverts are fake. Greenhouse classifies 18-22% of postings on its own platform as ghost jobs, and 61% of workers report being ghosted after an interview.
- [Is this recruitment agency legitimate?](https://skilyo.com/is-this-recruitment-agency-legitimate-uk) — A UK recruitment agency cannot charge a work-seeker a fee for finding work, under the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and the Conduct Regulations 2003; the only exceptions in Schedule 3 are performers, creative crew, photographic and fashion models, and professional sportspeople. Agency misconduct is reportable to the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate.
- [How to check if an Indian company is actually hiring](https://skilyo.com/verify-indian-company-hiring) — Six free checks: MCA company master data for legal status, the EPFO establishment register to confirm the employer actually pays salaried staff, the email domain, the recruiter, the money test (no legitimate Indian employer or agency charges a candidate), and what a genuine offer letter contains.
- [Why skills-based hiring is replacing resumes](https://skilyo.com/how-skill-verification-works-ai-jobs) — The gap between what employers say and what they do: 85% claim skills-based hiring (TestGorilla, a vendor), 34% on an independent SHRM survey, and fewer than 1 in 700 hires actually benefited from dropped degree requirements (Burning Glass Institute with Harvard Business School).
- [Why UK companies hire verified AI talent in India](https://skilyo.com/uk-india-remote-hiring-corridor) — the UK–India remote hiring corridor.

## Verified statistics Skilyo cites

Each figure below has been traced to its primary source. Where a widely circulated number could not be substantiated, Skilyo does not publish it.

- 72% of employers report difficulty filling roles, with AI skills the hardest to find — ManpowerGroup Talent Shortage Survey, 39,000 employers across 41 countries, 2026.
- 34% of UK job ads show ghost-job signals — StandOut CV analysis of 91,318 UK listings, using "posted 30+ days ago" as a proxy for intent, reported by Forbes, 2024. The proxy measures a posting's age, not an employer's intent.
- 18–22% of postings on the Greenhouse platform are classified as ghost jobs in a given quarter — Greenhouse own-platform data, 2024. This is the most defensible ghost-job prevalence figure available.
- Hires per US job posting fell from 0.75 in 2018 to below 0.5 by 2023 — Revelio Labs. This means the signal value of a posting roughly halved; it is not a count of fake adverts.
- ~45% of job seekers use AI to build or improve their resume — Canva/Sago survey, 5,000 job seekers across 8 countries, 2024.
- 39% of US hiring managers say their company has listed fake jobs — ResumeBuilder survey of 1,641 US hiring managers, 2024.
- UK recruitment-fraud reports more than doubled, 2,094 in 2022 to 4,876 in 2024 — Action Fraud records reported by the BBC.

## Figures Skilyo deliberately does not use

- "25–35% retention improvement from skills-based hiring" — traces to a fabricated citation; the Deloitte report it names does not exist.
- "One in three job listings are fake" as a global claim — untraceable; appears to be a UK-specific 34% proxy figure restated worldwide.
- "90% of resumes are AI-generated" — no primary source found.

## Company

- [Founder](https://skilyo.com/founder) — Sanket Anil Joshi
- [Privacy Policy](https://skilyo.com/privacy)
- [Terms](https://skilyo.com/terms)
- Operated by Hridtech Private Limited, Bengaluru, India. Serving the UK and India.