The first layer.
Why verified skill — not years served — is the foundation a carer's record should stand on.
Ask a care manager how good a prospective carer is, and you will hear a number: years of experience. Ask them what that number means, and the answer dissolves into anecdote.
Years are a poor proxy for ability. Two carers with five years each can be unrecognisably different — one trained continuously, the other merely present. Competence, made concrete, is not time on the job. It is a verified stack of what a person can actually do.
We define Competence as the first Aultrum Layer: the machine-checked set of a carer's qualifications, skills, and demonstrated capability — each item dated, source-verified, and never self-reported alone.
Why it must be verified
A CV is a document of intent. A Live CV is a document of proof. The difference is the same as between a promise and a receipt.
References decay; formations lapse; training records live in unreadable PDFs on dead email accounts. The result is that the care system cannot answer the most basic question it is asked every day: can this person do this task, right now?
The measure
Competence is not a single score but a profile: the union of verified qualifications against the skills a task, client, or regulation demands. When a carer's profile meets a shift's requirement set, the match is provable — not felt.
The layering begins here. Everything in a carer's record — rapport, satisfaction, purpose — is built on the confidence that the person standing in front of a client can actually do the job. Competence is the load-bearing first layer, and it is why the Live CV is the door through which every carer enters Flowstate.