Hiring
6 posts on hiring.
What your job ad looks like next to everyone else's
In the markets where most of our postings sit, stating a salary puts your advert in a minority of roughly one in a hundred. That is either a risk or the cheapest differentiation available, depending on what you are trying to do.
25 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
How to screen when every resume reads perfectly
The problem is not that applications got worse. It is that they all got equally good, which is the same thing as them carrying no information.
25 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
How employers verify skills: a practical guide for recruiters who are tired of taking people's word for it
You are already verifying skills. You are doing it in the interview, slowly, one candidate at a time. Here is how to do it before the interview, for everyone at once.
8 Sept 2026 · 7 min read
Fake job postings: how to tell a real listing from a useless one before you apply
A large share of the postings you scroll past were never going to hire anyone. Here is how to spend your applications on the ones that will.
8 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
Skill verification for jobs: what it is, how it differs from a certificate, and why employers now ask for it
A certificate says you attended. A verification says you could do it, on a day you did not choose, on questions you had never seen. Employers have learned the difference.
8 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
Proof of work in hiring: what it proves, and what it doesn't
A portfolio proves the work exists. It does not prove you did it. That gap is where proof-of-work hiring quietly breaks.
29 Aug 2026 · 10 min read