The hiring industry is broken and everyone is ignoring the real problem, Skill Verdict has a fix

The hiring industry is broken and here is why. The first side of this broken coin is the job seekers the market is flooded with “qualified” engineers: impressive CVs, polished LinkedIn profiles, sleek portfolios, endless flashy GitHub repos. Yet a lot of companies hiring run into the same reality: people who interview great but deliver below expectations, great talkers not so great doers. This is all because of so many interviews the candidates have done it they have more experience passing interviews for the job than doing the actual job. There is one uncomfortable truth: the core signals in hiring are self‑reported. A CV is what someone says about themselves. A portfolio is what they choose to show and how they choose to frame it. Even references are often hand‑picked advocates. In an era of coding AIs, this becomes an adversarial game: candidates are optimizing for getting through filters and interviews, “how can I optimize my CV better so it reaches a human to take a look at it ins