For years, the fastest way to lift your pay seemed simple: switch jobs and collect a BIG bump. That playbook is far less reliable today.

The future of hiring isn’t ‘AI alone’ or ‘humans alone’. It’s the right blend that surfaces real capability and authentic fit – and resumes are all noise.

A new year needs a more effective way of hiring, but how does hiring without using a resume as the single source of truth work IRL? To date, the choices for hiring SMEs have been woeful – job posts on one hand, recruiters on the other. Both heavily rely on someone's resume.

This still floors me. If you’ve ever hired (or been hired), you’ve seen it: 5+ years required. 10+ years preferred. It’s written like a proxy for certainty - like time served automatically equals capability.