Thor Hesselberg: The Trust Layer Hiring Has Never Had

AI didn't just change how we find jobs — it changed who we say we are. CVs are being generated, optimized, and fabricated at scale, and employers are making six-figure hiring decisions on documents they can no longer trust.

In this episode:

• Why Thor believes every hiring decision is actually an access control decision — and why legacy recruitment processes weren't built for that reality

• How WorkID.ai assigns a candidate trust score modeled on credit ratings, and what it actually verifies versus what it deliberately leaves unsolved

• The power shift at the heart of WorkID's thesis: your work history belongs to you, not your employer, and it should travel with you across borders and platforms

• Robin's personal admission after 30 years in the industry — and why Thor's platform is the thing senior professionals have always needed but never had language for

Thor Hesselberg is the Founder and CEO of WorkID.ai, a verified professional identity platform built to restore trust in global hiring. He is also the founder of Deca People, a boutique recruitment and transformation advisory firm operating at the intersection of senior tech talent and large-scale organizational change. With thirty years spanning entrepreneurship, oil and gas, and cross-border recruitment, Thor brings rare practitioner credibility to a problem most platforms are still ignoring.

Connect with Thor Hesselberg:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorhesselberg

Website: https://workid.ai

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