Noisy funnels. Overwhelming volume. Fraudsters and fakes.

Your old playbook
never saw
this coming.

In the age of AI, bots, and candidate fraud, recruiting teams need more than new tools. They first need new processes and skills. We'll help you build them.

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34%

Of recruiters spend half their week filtering spam and junk. Before the real work starts.

Greenhouse 2026 AI in Hiring Report

45%

More LinkedIn applications in one year. AI tools are driving the deluge.

New York Times

1 in 4

Candidate profiles worldwide will be fake by 2028.

Gartner

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?

This is what recruiting looks like today. Nobody handed you a playbook for this. We'll help you build one.

There's a better way

Candidate Curation.

Candidate Curation is continuous Attraction, Assessment, and Authentication throughout the funnel.

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

It's time for recruiting to model curation.

Instead of attracting talent at the top of the funnel, assessing in the middle, and authenticating at the bottom, we must now do all three at each touchpoint. Otherwise, volume floods the pipeline. Signal collapses. Fraud walks through the door because nobody was really looking.

What We Do

The Curation Method

Your team is underwater. And somewhere in the middle of it, you're supposed to stop and fix the process.

We know. That's exactly why we built this.

Install

Diagnose. Learn. Build. Roll out.

We map your current process, build your Candidate Curation playbook, train your team and roll it out together. 4 weekly sessions.

Support

Adopt. Build fluency. Strengthen skills.

This is where the playbook becomes second nature: weekly live sessions, on-demand training, and system access. 4 weeks.

Community

Stay current. Keep skills sharp.

The landscape keeps shifting. The Community keeps you ahead of it: roundtables, continued learning, and ongoing system access. Ongoing membership.

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The Install includes

Module 01: Attraction

Tackling volume and bots to restore human signal

1500 applications overnight. 40% of your team's week gone before the real work starts. We'll help you shape who enters your funnel before the flood hits — and keep bad actors from getting a foot in the door.

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Module 02: Assessment

Sharper interviewing for AI pipelines

AI changed what good assessment looks like. Stop trying to catch people using it. Design interviews where AI use is expected and tells you exactly what you need to know. Then document decisions that hold up under scrutiny.

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Module 03: Authentication

Deterring and surfacing candidate fraud

Deepfakes. Proxy candidates. Organized fraud rings. It's in your funnel right now whether you're seeing it or not. We'll help your team deter, surface, and document.

Book this module →

Each module is also available as a standalone session. Whatever you invest applies as a credit toward the full program.

The Platform

Meet Slate.

Slate is Tenfold's workflow intelligence system and every recruiter's new best friend.

No black box. No scoring, ranking, or dispositioning. A clean slate after every call. And the recruiter always decides.

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Interview companion

Real-time question prompts, resume flags, and bias guardrails during every interview.

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Process builder

Intakes, workflows, job postings, and outreach templates baked with Candidate Curation.

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On-demand training

New team members get up to speed fast. Experienced recruiters stay current.

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Intelligence feed

Twice-weekly curated articles so your team always knows what's happening in the ever evolving landscape of noise, bots and fraud.

Included throughout your engagement and for one month after. Ongoing access available through the Community.

About

Let's do this.

Long before noisy funnels and overwhelming volume became everyone's problem, we were already working together to build solutions for both. Now we're teaming up again. Stacy brings the recruiter and consultant lens, while Mike brings the TA leader and practitioner perspective. We've got you covered.

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 spent her career training recruiters worldwide and has never stopped recruiting herself.

Mike Bailen

Partner

Talent acquisition leader with nearly two decades of experience building and scaling recruiting teams at high-growth companies including Zappos, Eventbrite, and Handshake. A systems thinker known for designing practical innovations that make hiring work better without losing the human element.