You are not a bad candidate. The tooling is.
Tier-3 employability is 43%. Tier-1 is 48%. A 5-point gap. The brand filter treats it like a 50-point gap. You didn't fail — the filter did.
Does any of this sound like your semester?
- Your college has 0.8 recruiters per 100 students. The top 5% get three offers. Everyone else gets zero.
- You got rejected at the ATS stage. 94% of resumes never reach a human. You couldn’t have been better — you couldn’t have been seen.
- Your parents asked which company. The answer is “none yet”. That conversation has happened 47 times since semester-end.
- Your friend from Tier-1 got 4 internship offers before he wrote a single line of code. You wrote 2,000 lines + 4 side projects. Zero offers.
- You studied Computer Science because “IT has jobs”. Then 30% of the IT services intake dropped in 18 months.
- You practised with ChatGPT. The interview said “no AI”. You weren’t sure if your brain worked without it any more.
- Your TPO forwards 400 resumes per drive. Six get called. The rest get ghosted — never “no”, never feedback, just silence.
- Composite 2026 student stat · Tier-1 vs Tier-3 employability — 48% vs 43% (NASSCOM/Mercer 2026). A 5-point gap, not a 50-point one.
- Composite 2026 student stat · 60–70% of Tier-2/3 offers are rejected at the family table — not at the employer’s.
- Composite 2026 student stat · 30% of large employers are dropping the degree filter for early-career hires (FY26–27 India).
If any of this is your semester — you're not a bad candidate. The tooling is. Keep reading.
It's not the candidates. It's the filter.
The brand filter is the fight you're losing. Verification is the fight you can actually win.
Brand-filter ranking — your three-letter college prefix decides.
Skill-verification ranking — your proven portfolio decides.
Three-letter college prefix decides who gets the call.
A 30-day proven portfolio decides who gets the call.
ATS keyword match — can you game the filter?
Rubric-scored real work — can you do the job?
ChatGPT-proof fear — are you “really” good or just AI-assisted?
Verification methodology + agreement-rate published, publicly auditable.
No placement-cell = no offers. Your campus tier decides your career.
Off-campus + direct-hire through verified skills. Your work decides.
What ProveIQ is NOT.
We are not a resume polishing service.
We are not an aptitude-test prep — we measure real work, not tests.
We are not paid — not today, not ever. Free forever (CO-038).
We are not anti-TPO — we make your TPO look strategic.
We are not an under-18 data-harvester — guardian consent is DPDP-native, mother-tongue, verifiable.
The filter is the fight you lose. Verification is the fight you win. And dignity is not asking permission — it's being asked.
You understand the problem. Now see the tools.
Unlimited mocks. Skill portfolio. Off-campus offers. Parent-Share. All free.