Anonymous-first
Articles on Anonymous-first from the CalHire team: verified skills, anonymous-first hiring, and audit-ready process.
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
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
Introducing CalHire: hiring decided by proven skills, not résumés
Why we replaced the résumé with a verified skills profile, and how anonymous-first, never-ghosted hiring works for candidates and employers alike.
June 16, 2026