Launching Sinceriti: A New Way to Signal Authenticity in Hiring + How Good Policy Gets Made (and Where It Fails)
Policy Post #212
Dear Reader,
This week,
This edition is a special one. We are introducing Sinceriti, a platform that helps bring authenticity into the hiring process by enabling applicants to signal real interest and commitment in a transparent way. Alongside that, we explore how pre-legislative processes shape law making, why some cities flood and others don’t, and how institutional stress affects justice outcomes.
Stay with us till the end for our updated mega-database of jobs and internships in the policy and development space.
As always, thank you for reading and championing better policy.
With that, we bring to you: Policy Post #212!
Policy Charcha 💬
The best of Podcasts, Videos, Essays, Fellowships and other Career resources from the world of Policy and Governance from the week gone by!
💡 Essay Highlight:
A Score-card for Pre-Legislative Process
Legislation is often judged by its outcomes, but its quality is determined much earlier. This essay examines the shortcomings in India’s pre-legislative process, including superficial consultations, limited transparency, and weak impact assessment. It offers a rare view into the machinery that shapes the laws we live under.
📲 Highlight of the Week
PPI at The Hindu Policy Summit
Pioneering Youth, Shaping Tomorrow
Yash Agarwal recently spoke at The Hindu Policy Summit, contributing perspectives on how young people can shape public discourse and expand citizen participation in governance. The conversation reinforced PPI’s belief that policy cannot be a closed space and that youth belong at the table.
📷 Video Highlight
Why Gurugram Floods and Noida Doesn’t
Every monsoon, Gurugram sinks into gridlock and waterlogging, while neighbouring Noida remains largely functional. This episode of The Climate Brief explains why city design choices made decades ago keep playing out each rainy season, and how planned drainage and urban green cover can dramatically alter climate resilience.
🔎 Databases and Guides:
Discover your ultimate career resource sheets for everything related to public policy! Our comprehensive mega-lists include 150+ hiring organisations, 200+ scholarships, and 150+ courses, podcasts and a lot more. Dive in and unlock your next big opportunity!
📚 Research Spotlight
India Justice Report 2025
The newest edition assesses the capacity and performance of India’s policing, judiciary, prisons and legal aid systems. It highlights the lived impact of institutional strain, from delays and overcrowding to questions of access, equity and dignity in the justice process. A crucial resource for anyone thinking about systemic reform.
🌟 Avenues for Upskilling
Public Policy Puzzle presents the Youth Impact Mentorship Series
An initiative designed to support early-stage policy professionals with reflective and experience-driven learning. The Youth Impact Mentorship Series connects participants with practitioners who are willing to discuss skills, decision-making and real trajectories in policy.
This week, the session features Yash, who will share his experience navigating India’s policy networks and building communities of learning and inquiry.
Standing Out In Your Job Application Process Through Sinceriti
You’ve probably heard that the job market is difficult right now. When anyone can claim to be passionate about a cause and craft the perfect cover letter and CV, genuine candidates like you find it increasingly difficult to stand out. The sheer noise in the application process, with hundreds of GenAI-assisted applications flooding recruiters’ inboxes for any role, has been changing the way hiring is happening. This is also overwhelming recruiters, making it difficult for them to make hiring decisions, amplifying the matching problem even further.
Hiring teams across the impact sector are struggling with this : everyone sounds perfect. With AI-sculpted cover letters flooding inboxes, it’s becoming harder to spot candidates who are sincerely committed, the ones who’ve actually engaged with an organisation’s work instead of copy-pasting enthusiasm.
Recruiters say the real challenge now isn’t quantity — it’s authenticity.
PPI is thrilled to bring Sinceriti to our community of changemakers. Built by senior leaders in the social impact sector (including a former Partner at Dalberg), Sinceriti steps in with a simple idea: give every applicant the same 100 “commitment points” across two categories each year to allocate to the causes and organisations they truly care about. These allocations are timestamped, tamper-proof, and can’t be edited retrospectively. It’s a simple way to signal authenticity in a world where polished claims are free and infinite.
It’s already being used by programs like the LedBy Accelerator and the Gandhi Fellowship to identify applicants whose interest goes beyond polished wording. For anyone job-hunting this season, Sinceriti is a free platform, and their team is available at contact@sinceriti.co.
Your Next Step
The platform is free for applicants. The Sinceriti team offers daily chats and personalized guidance as you build your commitment profile. Reach out at contact@sinceriti.co.
🌍Climate + Health Corner
In Partnership With Swasti, The Health Catalyst
Health Impacts of Air Pollution
A peer-reviewed study chronicling the real physiological consequences of air pollution exposure in India. Rather than emotional appeals or outrage, this piece presents evidence on respiratory outcomes, cardiovascular effects, and long-term health burden. A strong data-driven foundation for environmental policymaking.
Careers Corner 💼
A curated list of some of the best jobs and internship opportunities this week from the world of public policy, the development sector, impact consulting and communications at large.
📩 Best bit - if you know of a job/internship opening that’s not listed here, kindly just add that as a comment on the sheet: giving 20,000+ people immediate access to it!
You won’t believe it, but it’s cheaper than a cup of coffee to support our work ☕
We're a community-driven platform dedicated to delivering fresh policy insights, creating career opportunities, and helping thousands thrive in India's policy space. To keep all our work free and accessible, we need your support. A small contribution of just Rs. 80 can help sustain and grow our mission. Please consider buying us a coffee and powering our work. Thank you!
That’s all for this week 💛
Thanks for learning, thinking and building with us.
See you next week.
Team Public Policy India