Hiring is broken. It's just broken into many pieces, especially as you get to larger organizations. The first disconnect occurs when management wants somethin

Hiring is broken. It's just broken into many pieces, especially as you get to larger organizations. The first disconnect occurs when management wants something, but HR loses it in translation, and that job description is classified and immutable for the next decade. So it gets posted, and everyone complains that the "right candidates" aren't applying. Well, that's because we can't actually write job descriptions to tell candidates what we're actually trying to do. If by some miracle I get to post a job the way I want to describe it, I have the option of receiving every resume that comes in or letting HR screen, whereby they interpret what I want and probably trash a lot of quality candidates. Because they were doing Java instead of Python or didn't include SQL or something like that. So I tend to do my own screening, looking for evidence of critical thinking, curiosity and potential, which takes some time. Maybe I found my candidate and I've hired them. I mentioned I'm big on potential, critical thinking and curiosity. I think I'm a pretty good manager and people developer, and I'd even like to think that those who have passed through my team have learned a lot. Naturally I don't have the sort of pay scale or rapid advancement culture to work with, so I eventually lose them to someone who does. (As an aside, I used to work with a great HR recruiter, who could really deliver the right candidates - naturally she went somewhere else to get paid more!) And then we start over. So I like the idea of startups like Triplebyte and such, who I can maybe trust to think like me and get me a few candidates for a last round interview and a hire. Naturally, my large, old school company will have none of that :) From the candidate perspective, these same issues manifest differently, but share the same root causes. I can see why startups who understand the process on the inside are starting to try and monetize their knowledge of the game. Personally, I'm a pretty big fan of Jobscan - it's a really helpful tool to help you adjust the language in your resume to match the keywords from the job posting, which is useful in getting your resume into the hands of an actual human to read. From there, you may still run into the above issues, but the first hurdle has been cleared.