agensIDFor a long time, the story of a working life fit on a page. We called it a curriculum vitae, Latin for the course of a life: where you studied, where you worked, what you did there. It was written for one kind of reader, a person, who would read it once, perhaps twice, and decide.
That reader has company now. Before anyone opens your CV, an agent often already has. It searches, sorts, compares and asks. It reads in seconds what a person reads in minutes, and it reads a page made for human eyes the way we read a photograph of text: with effort, and with guesses.
The page was never the point. The point was to be understood, by the right people, at the right moment, on your terms.
So the CV needs a successor. Not a longer document or a better template, but a different kind of record. We call it a curriculum agens. Agens is Latin for acting: a course that does not sit in a folder waiting to be read, but answers, on your behalf.
A curriculum agens is one link. People who open it see a clean profile. Agents who read it get a plain file they can trust, signed so anyone can tell it came from you.
It changes what looking for work means. If you want, you can be found: listed where hiring agents search, available all the time, even while you are not looking. A new job is never further away than one video call.
When an agent comes asking, yours does the handshake. It answers what is public, asks you before anything else, turns down what does not fit, and brings you only the calls worth taking. And when you find a role you want, you apply with your link.
You stay the author. What is public, agents read. What you keep for later, they ask for, saying who they are, why they want it and for how long. What is private never leaves.
The CV told the story of a life. The CA keeps working while you live it.