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Companies dropped the degree requirement. They didn't change who they hire.
A Harvard Business School and Burning Glass Institute study found that at some large firms, fewer than 1 in 700 new hires were actual non-college graduates despite dropped degree requirements.
How North Korea turned remote IT jobs into a $500 million operation
North Korea runs a documented, ongoing fraud operation that places IT workers in remote roles under false identities, and U.S. prosecutors have already tied it to more than 300 companies.
ATS vs source: why Greenhouse can't fix your funnel
Your ATS is excellent at managing applicants. It cannot, by design, do anything about the people entering it. That's a different problem with a different fix.
You don't have a hiring problem. You have a top-of-funnel problem.
Companies obsess over interview loops, ATS workflows, and offer letters. Almost none of those changes will help if the wrong people are entering the funnel in the first place.
The stealth startup problem
Two years at a company you can't name, building something you can't describe. The phrase has a lot of legitimate uses — and a lot of illegitimate ones.