Why hiring broke. What proof fixes.
Three pieces on why the résumé stopped working, and what verified proof of your skills does instead — whether you're just starting out, ten years in, or doing the hiring.
Why hiring broke — and what proof fixes.
Hiring broke because AI made the résumé free to fake — so it stopped telling anyone apart. The fix isn't a better résumé. It's verified proof of what you can actually do.
Read the pieceHow to get a tech job with no experience in 2026 — get seen on your work, not your GPA
The short version: make your work legible — one clean repo, one real case study, a link a stranger can open in two minutes — and apply to ten roles you actually match, not two hundred you can't.
Read the pieceFound on proof, not the pile: how senior engineers get hired in 2026
Senior engineers rarely lose on skill — they lose in the pile. How experienced engineers actually get hired in 2026, and what to do instead of spraying applications.
Read the pieceProof > noise, weekly.
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Start with the board.
The proof layer in these pieces is coming in Phase 1. Real entry-level and senior roles are live now, free to search.