Pipeline flooded with volume and spam? We restore capacity. Real candidates getting lost in the noise? We restore signal. Cheating and fraud slipping through? We restore trust.

We train recruiting teams to fix their noisy, AI-saturated pipelines so real talent can shine through. Our Candidate Curation program upskills recruiters in attraction, assessment, and authentication in the age of AI. Each recruiter walks away with a playbook of practical tips, tricks, and processes that produce immediate results.

34%
of recruiters spend half their week filtering spam and junk. Before the real work starts.
45%
more LinkedIn applications in one year. AI tools are driving the deluge.
1 in 4
candidate profiles worldwide will be fake by 2028.

Your tech recruiter opened their laptop this morning to 1500 new applications. For one req. That opened yesterday.

The black box problem

Your AI filtering tool flagged 70% of them as suspicious. But nobody really knows how it made that call, whether it's right, or whether using it just created a compliance problem nobody's ready to deal with.

The signal problem

The resumes that made it through? They all look identical. AI-polished, keyword-stuffed, indistinguishable from each other. Your primary signal for candidate quality just stopped working.

The improvisation problem

Your recruiters are handling fraud signals in real time, on recorded calls, with no training, no process, and no backup. Everyone's making it up as they go. What could go wrong?

The fraud problem

Nearly every Fortune 500 has unknowingly hired a North Korean IT worker posing as a US employee. Does your team have the skills to keep your company from being next on the list?

Nobody handed you a playbook for this. We'll help you build one.

There's a better way

What is Candidate Curation?

A museum curator doesn't just collect. They carefully select, qualify, and authenticate each piece in the collection. They know the difference between the real thing and a convincing imitation.

Recruiting must do the same. In the age of AI noise, risk, and fraud, we should be curating. Each step of the way.

Candidate Curation is continuous attraction, assessment, and authentication throughout the funnel.

Our Offering

Candidate Curation by Tenfold

Training.

Hands-on workshops that empower recruiters to build the awareness, skills, and muscle memory to recognize real signal. We also teach recruiters to reduce risk, incorporate AI strategically, and make defensible decisions.

Playbook.

We'll help you turn those new skills and tactics into an end-to-end playbook that brings it all together. Processes, strategies, templates, and policies all in one place so training actually sticks. A living, breathing tool that you can keep and update over time.

Learning Library.

Real-time access to the latest training modules, docs, templates, tactics, news, and much more. Exclusive members-only content with on-demand sessions. Stay connected and part of our community so you are always one step ahead.

Let's Talk
About

Let's do this.

Long before noisy funnels and overwhelming volume became widespread, we were working together to find creative solutions for both. Now we're teaming up again, with Stacy bringing the recruiter and consultant lens, and Mike joining Tenfold as the TA leader and practitioner perspective.

Stacy Zapar
Stacy Zapar
Founder and Partner

Career recruiter, TA consultant, and top-rated keynote speaker. Featured in Inc., Fortune, and Forbes. Named Trendsetter of the Year for TA by SHRM's HR Magazine. She has trained thousands of recruiters worldwide and has never stopped recruiting.

Mike Bailen
Mike Bailen
Partner

Talent acquisition leader with 15+ years building and scaling high-growth teams at Zappos, Eventbrite, Lever, and Handshake. A systems thinker who makes hiring work better without losing the human element.

Employers we've supported over the years
LinkedIn
Netflix
Amazon
Walmart
GM
Zappos
Eventbrite
RH
TripAdvisor
Handshake
Wayfair
FedEx
Booking.com
ADP
UCLA
Allstate
Virgin
Best Buy
LinkedIn
Netflix
Amazon
Walmart
GM
Zappos
Eventbrite
RH
TripAdvisor
Handshake
Wayfair
FedEx
Booking.com
ADP
UCLA
Allstate
Virgin
Best Buy
The Landscape

Only 54% of candidates say they trust organizations to be honest with them during the hiring process.

"There are hundreds of Fortune 500 organizations that have hired North Korean IT workers... at least one, if not a dozen or a few dozen."

"If you're not seeing it, it's because you're not detecting it, not because it's not happening to you."

Organizations with awareness training saw 52% smaller median losses and detected fraud more than 2.5x faster.

Ready to restore capacity, signal, and trust in your recruiting process?

We're here to walk you through it.

Let's Talk