Sep 25, 2026 · 59 min · 17 segments
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yeah i love it ma'am i love it so so so again shout out to you sent me a lot of notes here do you have any burning one you want to start off on because i can go ahead and pick and go down a rabbit hole but i'm curious on where you want to start
well i think if we think about sort of the application process a little bit.
let's do it.
now, man.
We're gonna, you know, touch a tiny part of that.
But I know that and this comes from not just me as a talent professional, but me as a job seeker as well.
It's a really hard place to be when you're looking for work.
And the worst thing that can happen is that you you have this black hole that everybody experiences.
And not many companies have kind of got this right yet and what it comes across as to a job seeker is it's like you know what the hell's going on no one cares no one's reading anything you know i could do this job but you know no one's looking at my details and the reality is very different but there is just such a terrible communication channel there between applicant and, you know, and talent team, whether that's in-house or external, that, you know, you've got no other way of describing it.
Yeah.
Okay.
So they're not communicating with me.
I'm not going to get that job.
That company's not that great.
That's kind of how it works out.
And that is the reality.
But from the other side of things, Usually, 99% of applications are rejected because of the fit with the person or the CV.
It's the CV predominantly, right?
still, even today, September 2026, it's gone AI crazy, right? The world's gone AI crazy.
In-house talent teams and most agencies are still reviewing CVs manually, right? And I know that's not a popular opinion because a lot of people will say, no, they're not.
They are.
yeah i love it ma'am i love it so so so again shout out to you sent me a lot of notes here do you have any burning one you want to start off on because i can go ahead and pick and go down a rabbit hole but i'm curious on where you want to start
well i think if we think about sort of the application process a little bit.
let's do it.
now, man.
We're gonna, you know, touch a tiny part of that.
But I know that and this comes from not just me as a talent professional, but me as a job seeker as well.
It's a really hard place to be when you're looking for work.
And the worst thing that can happen is that you you have this black hole that everybody experiences.
And not many companies have kind of got this right yet and what it comes across as to a job seeker is it's like you know what the hell's going on no one cares no one's reading anything you know i could do this job but you know no one's looking at my details and the reality is very different but there is just such a terrible communication channel there between applicant and, you know, and talent team, whether that's in-house or external, that, you know, you've got no other way of describing it.
Yeah.
Okay.
So they're not communicating with me.
I'm not going to get that job.
That company's not that great.
That's kind of how it works out.
And that is the reality.
But from the other side of things, Usually, 99% of applications are rejected because of the fit with the person or the CV.
It's the CV predominantly, right?
still, even today, September 2026, it's gone AI crazy, right? The world's gone AI crazy.
In-house talent teams and most agencies are still reviewing CVs manually, right? And I know that's not a popular opinion because a lot of people will say, no, they're not.
They are.
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