Industry Trends
Analysis of current trends and changes in the recruiting and hiring landscape
The Candidate You Need Is Already in Your Inbox. You're Just Not Allowed to See Them
They applied. They were qualified. They had done the work before. But they didn't use the right buzzwords. Or their title was off by one word. Or your AI filter couldn't parse their resume layout. So… they got ghosted by your system. Not because they weren't good. Because they weren't formatted for the machine.
Read ArticleUnshitifying Hiring, Part 6: Why Job Boards Are Built for Noise, Not Results
You post a job. You get 300 applications. You think: 'Wow, what a great response!' But then reality hits: Only 10% meet the basic qualifications. Only 3% make it to an interview. And maybe, maybe 1 is a good fit. If this sounds familiar, it's because job boards are optimized for volume—not accuracy.
Read Article⏳ The Hidden Costs of Slow Hiring (And How AI Speeds It Up)
You might think slow hiring means careful hiring. More steps = better choices, right? Not exactly. In reality, slow hiring costs you your best candidates, your team's morale, your business goals, and eventually, your brand reputation.
Read Article💥 Unshitifying Hiring, Part 5: We Don't Need More Data. We Need Better Decisions.
If you've been involved in hiring recently, you know this feeling: You're staring at a spreadsheet full of resumes, with LinkedIn open in one tab, an ATS in another, and a never-ending Slack thread. There's no shortage of data—there's a shortage of clarity.
Read Article📉 The Resume Problem Nobody Wants to Admit
You're hiring for a critical role. You open your ATS. You filter for keywords. You eliminate 90% of applicants in under 10 seconds. Efficient, right? Except the person who actually solved your exact problem last year? They used different terminology. And your system filtered them out.
Read Article🎯 The Job Hunt Is Broken—And Even LinkedIn Knows It
4 months. That's the new average time it takes to land a job, according to LinkedIn's own data. Not four weeks. Not a few conversations. Four. Months. That's not a market problem. That's a system failure.
Read ArticleUnshitifying Hiring, Part 4: Ghosting, Gatekeeping & the Grind
Let's call it what it is—modern hiring is a trust crisis. Candidates ghost companies. Companies ghost candidates. Everyone's burned out. Everyone's lying just a little. And the whole process feels like a never-ending performance review you didn't sign up for.
Read ArticleUnshitifying Hiring, Part 3: The Candidate Experience Is Broken (And Everyone Knows It)
We've normalized garbage. As job seekers, we now expect to send out 100+ resumes and hear back from 2, to get ghosted after interviews, to talk to 4 people before we learn what the job actually pays, and to be judged by keyword-matching bots instead of actual work. It's not just inefficient—it's demoralizing.
Read ArticleUnshitifying Hiring, Part 2: Burn the Funnel, Build the Flywheel
The hiring "funnel" we've been force-fed by job boards and bloated ATS platforms isn't a pipeline to great people—it's a business model built on friction. The more you struggle to hire, the more they win. That's why we're unshitifying hiring—not just by removing friction, but by replacing the whole system with something better.
Read ArticleUnshitifying Hiring: Why It's Time to Focus on Outcomes, Not Clicks
Let's face it—hiring is broken. Somewhere along the way, platforms stopped helping you find great talent… and started monetizing your pain. You pay to post a job. You pay to promote that job. You scroll through hundreds of resumes that don't fit. Then you pay again—to message someone who may or may not even respond.
Read ArticleAI Recruiting vs Traditional Hiring: What's Faster & Cheaper?
Let's face it—hiring is broken. Somewhere along the way, platforms stopped helping you find great talent… and started monetizing your pain. You pay to post a job. You pay to promote that job. You scroll through hundreds of resumes that don't fit. Then you pay again—to message someone who may or may not even respond.
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