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Resume ScreeningMay 14, 20252 min read

The Candidate You Need Is Already in Your Inbox. You're Just Not Allowed to See Them

The Candidate You Need Is Already in Your Inbox. You're Just Not Allowed to See Them

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📩 You've Probably Already Rejected Your Best Hire

They applied.
They were qualified.
They had done the work before.

But they didn't use the right buzzwords.
Or their title was off by one word.
Or your AI filter couldn't parse their resume layout.

So… they got ghosted by your system.
Not because they weren't good.
Because they weren't formatted for the machine.

This is what "data-driven hiring" looks like—when your data is garbage.

⚠️ Keyword Filters Don't Hire People. They Eliminate Them.

Let's call it what it is: most hiring tech wasn't built to surface great talent.
It was built to filter out as many people as possible, as fast as possible.

It's a system optimized for:

  • Speed over substance
  • Brand over context
  • Buzzwords over outcomes
  • Volume over value

And it's quietly torching your talent funnel.


🧠 The Algorithm Was Trained on the Past. But You're Hiring for the Future.

AI isn't biased by design.
But when it's trained on years of biased hiring patterns, resume heuristics, and proxy signals, it learns to reinforce the very inequities and inefficiencies we're supposed to be fixing.

If you've ever asked:

"Why is hiring still so hard, even with AI?"

That's your answer.


✅ What Happens When You Flip the Funnel

Vetta does one thing differently:

Instead of asking:

"Does this candidate match the job description?"

We ask:

"Has this person solved this kind of problem before?"

Then we show you:

  • Blinded profiles
  • STAR-format outcomes
  • Clear reasons why they match

You get fewer candidates. But better ones.
And none of them are buried under formatting or filtered out for missing synonyms.


🔄 Unshitify Your Stack

You don't need more resumes.
You don't need another inbox full of applications.
You don't need an AI that gives you 500 more "maybes."

You need to unshitify your hiring process.

That starts by matching people to problems—not job titles.

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