Candidate experience
Articles on Candidate experience 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 really happens, and what to do about it.
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
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
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
Time-to-hire is a throughput metric. Quality-of-hire is the one that matters
Speed metrics are easy to collect and easy to game. How to measure whether your hiring decisions were any good, and which metrics to pair with which.
July 30, 2026