If your Senior Platform Engineer role has been open for 4 months, it’s not a candidate shortage. It’s a category error. You're trying to process passive talent through an active applicant funnel. At @rec_berry we wrote about why cold InMails fail (7.5% reply rates), why job descriptions act as anti-signals, and how signal mapping actually works for senior engineering talent: 🔗 linkedin.com/pulse/passive-t… TL;DR: Map GitHub/OSSS signals → Build warm paths → Start with an exploratory chat, not an ATS test. Check out recberry.com if you want to build this infrastructure in-house.

Most ATS software isn't finding great talent—it's just shielding recruiters from reading 500 CVs. We wrote a deep dive with the team at @_vairee on why 4 rounds of interviews end in silence, and why changing "led" to "managed" on your CV feels like a full-time job. 📌 "The company that ghosted you did not decide you were not good enough. It decided it did not have to tell you." Read the article here: linkedin.com/pulse/ai-didnt-… We’re building vairee.ai/talent to replace the static CV black hole with actual context & transparency. We’re in MVP right now. Try it out, build a card, and drop me a DM with your feedback. Let’s fix this mess.

"I'm 12 years into my career. I don't keyword-stuff because I don't need to perform competence — I have a body of work." 👉 But every ATS treats you like a junior who doesn't know the magic words, or how to play the silly "job post -> CV -> ATS -> recruiter" game. Full disclosure: I work on vairee, so obvious bias. But we wrote an article about why the ATS penalises senior professionals (and career changers, and self-taught devs, and clear writers). "Legible to humans but illegible to machines" — that's exactly it. Worth reading if you've ever been rejected for a role you know you could do: lnkd.in/e-QurbWF #JobSearch #ATS ---

When a sourcing vendor says "700 million profiles," don't ask "how many." Ask "from where" and "how old." Most are scraped social data from 👉 2 years ago + third-party broker data + inferred attributes. That mix tells you everything about reliability. The profile you're looking at is partly real, partly a model.