Something has felt very wrong to me for a while now.
Candidates get screened by AI, ranked, filtered, rejected by automated systems. Sometimes even judged on “integrity” or “reliability” by tools during an interview.
Meanwhile, what’s on our side?
We’re just supposed to accept the silence? Apply, wait, get ignored, move on quietly? No record, no visibility, no way to tell whether what happened to you was rare or completely normal.
That’s insane.
I started tracking my applications for the last few months and this is what I got:
And then I finally understood something:
Because once you see it laid out like that, when you see it everywhere on the net, it stops feeling like a personal failure and starts looking like what it actually is: a system that has normalized treating candidates like they don’t matter.
Too many people act like this is just how job searching works now. Too many candidates are expected to swallow it in silence. Too many companies get to hide behind broken processes, ATS black holes, and “we’ll be in touch.”
Too much is too much.
I’m done acting like this is normal. I’m done refreshing my emails at midnight hoping they’ll actually respond.