Not a reference. A record. Stamped by the work.
Your DeskTick profile is built from what actually happened — hours tracked, commits, pull requests, engagements completed — and every line says who vouches for it. A company reads a record, not a pitch.
- 1,284 h tracked, in sessions✓ Recorded by DeskTick
- 695 commits · 42 pull requests merged✓ Attested by GitHub
- 2 yrs 3 mo on one engagement✓ Recorded by DeskTick
- 3 engagements completed✓ Recorded by DeskTick
Anyone can type a profile.
A CV is a list of things somebody says about themselves. A reference is a list of people who will agree. Neither can be checked. This can.
Six short steps. Most of it fills itself.
Each step saves as you go, and each one charges as you complete it. Stop at any point and pick it up later — the profile keeps what it has.
What you do, your skills, where you are. Upload a CV and most of it fills itself.
Where you have worked. Your years of experience are counted from it, not typed.
Studies, certifications, and an identity document if a company asks.
Your handle, whether you can be found, and what you are open to.
GitHub, LinkedIn, LeetCode — proved by signing in, not pasted as a link.
Where you get paid. Private, and only needed once you are hired.
Who says so? Every line answers.
A DeskTick profile does not ask to be believed. Each figure on it carries its source, and nothing on it is granted by hand — not by you, and not by us.
What the timer saw
Hours, sessions, engagements and tenure are measured by DeskTick while the work happens — one timer at a time, so the same hour cannot be counted twice.
What your account shows
Commits, pull requests and languages are read from the account you connect by signing in to it. Nobody can paste somebody else's.
What you tell us
Your headline, bio, skills and education are yours to write. They are shown — and labelled as yours, so a reader can weigh them for what they are.
Medals you cannot buy.
Twenty-one of them, and every one is computed from the record: hours, commits, reviews, tenure, engagements. Each family tells a story as it goes — the tree grows, the sun comes up, the rocket leaves.
And your profile wears them.
The frame round your photo and the gauge beside your name level up as the medals add up — five levels, from the one everybody starts with to platinum. Anybody who opens your profile sees the level you have reached.
Then companies come to you.
Once the profile is complete it can be listed. From there to a signed offer happens in one place, and you are told what is happening at every step.
- 1Found
A complete profile is listed in the directory. Companies search it by skill, availability and record.
- 2Invited
They invite you. You see who it is and what for before you answer.
- 3Interviewed
Rounds are scheduled and kept in one place, with nothing to chase.
- 4Offered
The offer letter arrives in DeskTick, where you can read it properly.
- 5Signed
You sign it here. The engagement starts, and it starts being recorded.
Private until you say otherwise.
A record is only worth having if it is yours to show. Nothing here is public by default, and the things a company needs to hire you are not the things a stranger gets to read.
Before you start.
Yes. The profile, the record and the CLI are free to the person doing the work, and they stay free. Companies pay, per seat, for their workspace.
Yes. A code host is only asked for if your specialization writes code, and Bitbucket counts as well as GitHub. Hours, tenure and engagements are recorded by DeskTick and need neither.
Yes. Every engagement is yours to set: public, anonymous — the dates and hours without the company name — or hidden. Your totals are counted only from what you publish. Medals are different: every one you have unlocked shows, so a medal such as “Three engagements” can tell a reader there is work you have not listed — though never which, where or how much.
No. Connecting an account proves it is yours and counts your activity — private repositories included, as a number. We never read a repository, an organisation or an employer.
Yes. Each step saves as you go, and “Finish later” sits under every one of them.
Ask, and after a 60-day window — in which signing in calls it off — your account is erased: profile, documents, bank details, connections and your email address. What stays is the record a company holds of the hours you worked with them, with your name taken off it.
Free. Start your record.
It takes about ten minutes to set up, and it gets better every day you work.