Modern hiring is a mutual trust collapse dressed up as efficiency.

From the employer side: You can't trust that candidates are real anymore. Resumes are LLM-generated. Interview answers are coached or scripted. Experience is inflated. References are friends. You're spending hours screening people who might not even be able to do the job, so you add more filters — assessments, multi-round interviews, panel reviews — which makes the process slower and more expensive, and you still hire wrong half the time.

From the candidate side: You apply to hundreds of jobs and hear nothing because ATS systems filter you out for arbitrary reasons. You tailor your resume with keywords like you're gaming SEO. You perform in interviews instead of being honest because honesty gets you rejected. And if you do get hired, there's no loyalty — you're headcount, and you'll be cut the moment the spreadsheet says so.

The deeper problem: We've stopped treating employment like a human relationship and started treating it like a transaction. Employers want "culture fit" but offer no culture. They want "passion" but pay for compliance. They want loyalty but practice at-will employment.

Candidates optimize for getting hired, not for doing the job well, because the system rewards performance in the hiring process, not performance in the role.

And nobody's solving for actual match — does this person want to do this work, and will this place let them do it well? We've just built more elaborate filters for the same bad guesses.