What do employers actually want?

What skills matter? What credentials will they trust? Can better data improve hiring? After three months investigating how hiring decisions actually get made, Ian Davidson thinks we're starting with the wrong question.

The better question is: Which decision are you trying to change?

Hiring isn't one decision. Job boards decide which opportunities people see. Applicant tracking systems decide who gets surfaced. Recruiters decide who gets a conversation. Hiring managers decide who gets the job.

Together, those decisions allocate one of hiring's scarcest resources: human attention.

And the decisions affecting the most candidates often happen when the system knows the least about them.

Episode 10 brings together insights from Allison Danielsen, Matt ...