[Vince Ferrer]

How blockchain will integrate with applicant tracking systems remains to be seen, but it could well be the next phase of ATS evolution.

So, the author doesn't even know how to answer their own question. This whole article is a waste.

[tbw2]

The only way Blockchain solves this issue is if every school adopts what a few are doing and applying Blockchain asset/record tracking to awarded credentials.
Now your degree is public record and verifiable through an ultra-secure search.
The ability to make this standard requires all new degrees awarded through such a system AND integrating it into older credentialing programs.
All while hoping diploma mills don’t join into it and knowing that you’ll get people from a now closed college or slow adopter flagged as lying.