Everyone looks good on paper
Everyone looks good on paper. They take your job description, take their resume, ask ChatGPT to make it better. And what you're looking at on paper is never really the reality. So you have to spend more time reviewing and speaking to more people before you decide who's actually good, because at the end of the day, on paper, that information is not the most accurate.
So you're like, look, I don't want to have to review so many resumes, so let me just ask around and let somebody recommend somebody to me, and then I can have those conversations. That's one hack that most people have had with this. But we all know how your network also introduces bias. Sometimes it's limited as well. And sometimes you're looking for something that you've just not built or had the network for.
Said out loud on a call, 14 October 2026. Trimmed for filler; not rewritten.