Ideas on fairer hiring
Product updates, perspective, and practical guides on verified, anonymous-first hiring.
Candidates are using AI in your assessments. Now what?
AI-text detectors are unreliable and disproportionately flag non-native speakers. What to do instead: assessment design, signals and human review.
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Seven areas we write about in depth — process design, fairness, regulation, assessment integrity, and guides for candidates.
Practical process design — job descriptions, structured interviews, assessment validity, feedback, and the metrics actually worth tracking.
- What skills-based hiring actually is (and what it is not)
- Does your assessment predict anything? Validity for non-specialists
- Why candidates get ghosted, and how to actually stop
What the evidence supports about bias in hiring, and the structural changes that measurably reduce it rather than merely signalling intent.
- Blind hiring: what the evidence supports, and what it does not
- The biases that actually change hiring outcomes
- Name-blind recruitment: the weakest form of blind hiring
The EU AI Act, NYC Local Law 144, GDPR and Emiratization, translated into what a hiring team has to actually do.
Browse ComplianceAI assistance, proxy interviews and identity fraud — how to detect what matters without surveilling candidates in their homes.
- Candidates are using AI in your assessments. Now what?
- Fake candidates: proxy interviews, stolen identities and deepfakes
- Why webcam proctoring is the wrong fix for assessment integrity
For candidates: how skills-first hiring works, what really happens to your résumé, and how to compete without a degree.
- How to get hired without a degree
- Does an ATS really reject your résumé? What actually happens
- How to prepare for an AI interview
Longer arguments about why hiring works the way it does, and why the résumé was the wrong artefact to build it on.
Browse PerspectiveWhat we are building on CalHire, and the reasoning behind the decisions.
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Does your assessment predict anything? Validity for non-specialists
An assessment that feels rigorous can predict nothing. What validity and reliability mean, how to check yours, and the four ways hiring tests quietly break.
July 30, 2026
Does an ATS really reject your résumé? What actually happens
The "75% of résumés are rejected by robots" claim has no verifiable source. What an ATS actually does, where filtering happens, and what to do.
July 30, 2026
Blind hiring: what the evidence supports, and what it does not
Blind hiring has one of the cleanest natural experiments in labour economics behind it, and real limits. What it fixes, and what it cannot.
July 30, 2026
Why candidates get ghosted, and how to actually stop
Ghosting is almost never malice. It is what happens when closing the loop is optional, unowned and manual. The four structural causes, and the fix for each.
July 30, 2026
Dropping the degree requirement: what has to replace it
Removing a degree requirement without replacing the signal makes hiring more subjective, not less. What the degree was doing, and what to measure instead.
July 30, 2026
Fake candidates: proxy interviews, stolen identities and deepfakes
Remote hiring created a real identity-fraud problem: proxy interviewers, borrowed identities and deepfaked video. How the fraud works and where to verify.
July 30, 2026
How to get hired without a degree
A practical guide to competing on demonstrated skill: what to build, how to describe it, which employers to target, and how to handle the question directly.
July 30, 2026
The biases that actually change hiring outcomes
Awareness training does not fix bias. A guide to the biases that measurably move hiring decisions, and the process change that neutralises each one.
July 30, 2026
Name-blind recruitment: the weakest form of blind hiring
Name-blind screening is the most adopted and least effective form of blind hiring. What a name signals, what survives redaction, and what to do instead.
July 30, 2026
How to prepare for an AI interview
AI interviews reward specificity, structure and reasoning you make visible. What they actually assess, how to prepare, and what your rights are.
July 30, 2026
How to write rejection feedback that is actually useful
Most rejection feedback is either a form letter or a risk. How to write something specific and safe, using the scores you already have.
July 30, 2026