When Everything Can Be Generated, Evidence Becomes the Scarce Asset
AI is making professional claims cheaper to produce and harder to trust. The next hiring architecture will need evidence beneath the representation.
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Research on how professional markets understand people.
Evidence, practitioner observation and Sandery interpretation on professional information, human capability, work and talent markets.
The Job Description Is Not the Job
AI is becoming extraordinarily good at matching two polished abstractions. Better hiring begins by understanding the work beneath the vacancy.
Read the research note →The Most Consequential Person in Hiring May Be the Least Qualified to Assess the Work
Recruiters decide who experts get to assess. The first gate can determine the quality of every decision that follows.
Read the research note →The CV Is Becoming Obsolete
AI is making the CV better as marketing and worse as information. The document may survive, but it should no longer be where professional intelligence lives.
Read the research note →Garbage In, Generated Out
AI can transform a CV, tailor an application and optimise a match. It cannot recover career evidence that was never captured.
Read the research note →AI Can Write the Perfect Cold Message. That Is Why It Is Becoming Worthless.
As personalised communication becomes easier to manufacture at scale, it becomes weaker evidence of genuine interest. The scarce asset is shifting from access to credibility.
Read the research note →Process Inflation and the Diffusion of Accountability
Hiring has become more sophisticated procedurally without necessarily becoming more sophisticated epistemically.
Read the research note →The Market Has More Information About People Than Ever. It Understands Them Less.
AI is raising the floor of professional performance while weakening many of the signals historically used to distinguish exceptional people.
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