Noisy funnels. Overwhelming volume. Fraudsters and fakes.

Your old playbook
never saw
this coming.

In the age of AI, bots, and candidate fraud, your recruiting team needs 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?

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.

It's time for recruiting to model curation.

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

What We Do

Candidate Curation by Tenfold

An eight-week program that builds the playbook, skills and fluency your team needs to help real talent stand out in noisy funnels.

Phase 1

Onboard

We map your funnel, diagnose where noise is getting in, and help you build your new playbook.

Phase 2

Learn

Three weekly training sessions full of practical tactics to combat volume, bots, spam and fraud.

Phase 3

Install

Your new playbook is rolled out and recruiters have a month of weekly hands-on workshops to build confidence and fluency.

Phase 4

Sustain

Optional ongoing membership and community to maintain skills and stay current as the landscape keeps evolving.

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

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.