[sinenomine]

Monetary policy, software tax, post-covid hiring glut, pervasive mental health issues in HR professionals. For older pros there is also age discrimination. There is also underestimated factor of hiring by committee which more and more commonly disguises ethnic nepotism in hiring decisions.

[Signatura]

I think that’s a fair list, and it highlights how much of the process sits outside the candidate’s control.

Macro forces, internal incentives, and human bias all stack on top of each other, and the candidate only sees the outcome, not the cause. What feels particularly hard is that all of these factors collapse into a single signal for the job seeker, a rejection with no explanation.

From your perspective, which of these has the biggest impact in practice, and which ones do you think are most invisible to candidates going through the process?