Notes on evidence-based hiring.

India's AI talent shortage runs near two openings per qualified person. That inverts screening arithmetic — and most screens are still built to filter.

EU AI Act recruitment rules: high-risk obligations moved to December 2027, but Article 50 and the emotion-recognition ban already apply.

The technical interview evaluation criteria worth scoring: eight dimensions, the two you cannot ask for, and why an average is the wrong last step.

How to conduct a technical interview by experience level: what shifts between a 2-year and a 9-year candidate, what to stop asking, and why.

90% of developers use AI at work. The question isn't whether to allow it in the interview but how to assess AI coding skills once you do. Five things to score.

38% of candidates have abandoned a hiring process over an AI interview. Almost none of them object to the AI. What AI interview disclosure should actually say.

A candidate can pass a clean background check and still have oversold everything they did on the job. Verification confirms the job was real, not that the work was.

A résumé claim isn't a lie or the truth — it's untested. Six probe chains that go one layer deeper than most candidates prepared for.

Your first round pass rate went up. Your onsite reject rate went up with it. The screen did not get better at finding people. It just got easier to prepare for.

You are screening a platform engineer and you are not one. You do not need to judge the technical content, only whether the memory is first hand. That is a different skill, and it is learnable.