Hiring Has Become an Algorithmic Ritual

Posted on Sunday, 31 May 2026
Illustration of a dummy CV resume displayed as a generic or placeholder document, representing a sample job application with standard sections such as experience, skills, and education.

Hiring has become a strange little ritual.

A human writes a resume.
A machine polishes it.
Another machine interrogates it.
A third machine rejects it for not sounding human enough.

We are now deep into the era where personality is treated like a formatting error.

The result is a recruitment process that rewards whatever survives the algorithm, not necessarily whatever is actually useful. Which is a bold strategy, given the occasional lack of usefulness in the wild.

At some point, we stopped looking for people and started optimising for keywords, polish, and obedience. Brilliant. Efficient. Slightly unhinged.

If your hiring funnel needs a decoder ring and a séance, the problem may not be the candidates.

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