Introducing Candidate Curation,
the antidote to vibe recruiting
Noisy, AI-saturated funnels are flooded with volume, bots, and fraud. Risk is real, and qualified candidates get buried.
Our program helps teams build custom workflows that restore human signal without relying on gut instinct or black box automation.
What is Candidate Curation?
Candidate Curation is the new way to recruit in the AI era: continuous attraction, assessment, and authentication throughout the funnel.
Done right, it replaces risky vibe recruiting and black box automation with signal-driven decisions and human accountability at every step.
How Our Program Works
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Map your current funnel, including pain points, bottlenecks, risk areas, and decision gates
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Design your Candidate Curation playbook with processes, org design, deterrents, interview standards, signal stacking, escalation paths, standardized documentation, and consistency guardrails
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Train your team through weekly hands-on sessions to install Candidate Curation
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Reinforce adoption with our embedded platform, custom deliverables, and guided practice
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Support your team post-engagement with continued platform access, on-demand learning modules and regular all-hands workshops to stay current as the space evolves
In response to the growing prevalence of candidate fraud, our program is modeled on risk management best practices from ISO 31000 and ACFE, translated for recruiting.
What You Get
Custom Playbook
A tailored workflow with deterrents, triggers, escalation paths and tailored deliverables.
Hands-on Training
Live sessions with roleplay and practice so the new process becomes second nature.
Learning Platform
Our signal intelligence platform that supports intakes, interviews, and escalation, in real time.
Ongoing Support
All-hands workshops and platform access so teams stay current as the space evolves.
Signal Intelligence Platform
The real-time recruiting companion behind our program. Our embedded platform helps teams install Candidate Curation, run it day to day, and build the materials that make it stick.
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Learn it: On-demand training, quizzes, and guided walkthroughs that build fluency over time
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Run it: Deterrents, tripwires, signals, suggested follow-ups, and escalation plans that support consistent, defensible decisions
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Build it: Intakes, interview questions, job postings, interview feedback and outreach that bake Candidate Curation into everyday workflows
It connects the dots and keeps teams consistent. No black box. No scoring, ranking, enriching, aggregating or dispositioning. The recruiter always decides.
STACY ZAPAR
founder and partner
Stacy is a recruiter, sourcer and TA strategist who has spent her career consulting and training thousands of recruiters worldwide. She's a top-rated keynote speaker known for her "Secret Sauce" series, has been featured in Inc., Fortune, and Forbes, and was named "Trendsetter of the Year for TA" by HR Magazine.
MIKE BAILEN
partner
Mike is a talent acquisition leader with nearly two decades of experience building and scaling recruiting teams at high-growth companies like Zappos, Eventbrite, and Handshake. A systems thinker, he's known for designing practical innovations that make hiring work better without losing the human element.
Some of the great client partners we've supported over the years
Gartner predicts that by 2028, one in four candidate profiles worldwide will be fake.
“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."
The number of applications submitted on LinkedIn has surged more than 45% in the past year, and AI tools are contributing to the deluge.
“If you’re not seeing [North Koreans getting hired at your company], it’s because you’re not detecting it, not because it’s not happening to you."
34% of recruiters say they spend up to half of their week filtering spam and junk.
Only 54% of candidates say they trust organizations to be honest with them during the hiring process.
Organizations with awareness training for employees saw 52% smaller median losses and detected fraud more than 2.5 times faster than those without.
Ready to reboot your recruiting playbook for the AI era?
Schedule a call to see what Candidate Curation looks like for your team. We're excited to work with you.