cut noise.
restore human signal.
What is Candidate Curation?
Recruiting used to be linear: attract at the top, assess in the middle, authenticate at the bottom.
In the age of AI, that model breaks. Noise and risk show up at every step, and great candidates get buried.
Candidate Curation is the shift to continuous attraction, assessment, and authentication throughout the funnel.
The outcome is clearer signal, better decisions, restored trust and a process that still feels human.
STACY ZAPAR
founder and partner
Stacy is a career recruiter, sourcer and top-rated keynote speaker who has spent the past 15 years partnering with hiring teams to upskill recruiters, offer strategic consulting, and provide hands-on recruiting support.
MIKE BAILEN
partner
Mike is a TA practitioner and former Head of Talent for Zappos, Eventbrite, Lever and Handshake who enjoys innovating, solving challenging problems with common sense solutions, and motivating recruiting teams.
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Gartner predicts that by 2028, one in four candidate profiles worldwide will be fake.
The number of applications submitted on LinkedIn has surged more than 45 percent in the past year. The platform is clocking an average of 11,000 applications per minute, and AI tools are contributing to the deluge.
One fraud ring resulted in North Korean IT workers obtaining jobs at 300+ U.S. companies, including Fortune 500 corporations.
87% of jobseekers say it’s important for employers to be transparent about their own AI use.
“I’ve talked to a lot of CISOs at Fortune 500 companies, and nearly every one that I’ve spoken to about the North Korean IT worker problem has admitted they’ve hired at least one North Korean, if not a dozen or a few dozen.”
34% of recruiters say they spend up to half their week filtering spam and junk.
Only 54% of candidates say they trust organizations to be honest with them during the hiring process."
The best way to protect against fraudulent activity is to be aware of the different types of fraud and to take steps to prevent it.