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Why the $750B Hiring Industry is Failing Top Talent
The global hiring industry is a $750 billion behemoth that, by almost every modern metric, is fundamentally broken. Despite the influx of digital job boards and “Quick Apply” buttons, the reality for today’s tech professional is grim: candidates are currently three times less likely to get hired than they were just three years ago. According to Sebastian Scott, CEO of the San Francisco-based startup Clera, the problem isn’t a lack of talent or a lack of roles; it’s an outdated infrastructure that forces the candidate to do all the heavy lifting. Job boards have become overcrowded, recruiting pipelines are slower than ever, and ideal candidates are getting lost in the…