About the desk
The paperwork should be as solid as the work.
No Degree Required exists for a plain reason: a person can spend years getting good at something and still struggle to prove it, because the proof is scattered across registrars, sponsors, licensing boards and offices nobody has written to in years.
Hiring is shifting toward what a person can actually do. Employers who hire for skills rather than diplomas still need documents: a transcript, a completion certificate, an apprenticeship record, a license listing an employer or a board can check. The work happened. The training happened. What is missing is the paper that ties the two together.
That gap is where this desk lives. We request transcripts and completion records from colleges, trade schools and training providers, including institutions that have closed and handed their files to a successor or a state agency. We research occupational license and apprenticeship records so the file reflects the truth of what was trained, tested and finished.
The people who come to us are tradespeople, career changers, veterans, self-taught technicians, and employers who hire for skills rather than diplomas. Some need one transcript from a school that shut a decade ago. Some need a whole working history documented, line by line, with the supporting paper named for every entry.
The desk runs out of Loveland, Colorado. Education records work travels: registrars and state custodians answer written requests from anywhere, so the research runs nationwide. License work follows whichever state board publishes the listing, and we report what the index shows, as published.
We are a research desk, not a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice. What we do is slower and steadier than that: find the custodian, write the request that can actually be answered, track it, and deliver what comes back in one organized file — or explain, in writing, exactly what we checked when it does not.
Desk rules
Five rules we do not bend
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Every line has a source
If we report a record, we name the office that holds the original and the date it was filed or issued.
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Index level means index level
License and filing listings are reported as published. We do not interpret outcomes or guess at what an entry implies.
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Closed does not mean gone
When a school shuts, we trace the custodian until there is an answer: successor, state agency, accreditor or district office.
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No record is also an answer
When nothing exists, you get a written account of every office and index we checked, so the search does not have to be repeated.
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Plain language, always
The file is written for the person who lived the training, not for a records office. Short sentences, clear labels, no jargon.
Who answers the phone
Ryan Omnet runs the desk. When you call or write, you get Ryan — not a queue, not a script. Requests are scoped one at a time, and every file is checked against what was actually asked for before it is delivered.
[email protected] · +1 (646) 555-0173 · Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Mountain Time
Ask a questionBring us the hard case.
The school that closed, the program that was discontinued, the certificate nobody can find — that is the desk's whole reason for existing.