Your last five resumes were written by AI

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Four in ten candidates now use AI to write their resume, their cover letter, and their answers to your screening questions.

That's from a Gartner survey of more than 3,000 job candidates. 

The problem is that when every applicant writes like your strongest applicant, the resume stops telling you anything.

Everybody's paperwork is excellent now. 

Gartner projects that by 2028, one in four candidate profiles will be fake, meaning real identity misrepresentation, not embellishment. 

Their 2025 survey already found 6% admitting someone else had sat an interview for them.

The instinct is to screen harder. More rounds, longer take-homes. That doesn't work, because the same tool that wrote the resume writes the take-home. You just end up selecting for whoever prompts better.

If the document can't be trusted, don't start with documents. 

We go and find people who weren't applying. 

Operators with real results, plenty of them out of companies like Amazon and Deloitte, most currently employed and not sending anything to anybody.

Then we verify what's left. 

Identity, skills, qualifications and work history, run by partners on the ground in every region we source from. If someone hands us a certificate, we confirm it's genuine and not a PDF pulled off the internet. 

Headhunting is harder than posting a job. It's also the only way to end up with someone who can actually execute.

Before you commit to anyone, we'll set up a skills test on your actual work. Live or recorded, your brief, your tools, your standards.

That's the part AI can't manufacture. A resume can be generated in seconds. Someone walking you through the decisions they made, and why, cannot.

They do say it. 

So ask what the word means. 

Which checks, who runs them in-country, and what happens to a candidate who fails one.

Anyone can read a resume. Verification costs money and it kills candidates you already like, which is exactly why most firms skip it and call the interview "vetting."

Every person we place comes with a 120-day replacement guarantee. Wrong fit, underperformance, circumstances change on either side: we replace them at no cost, and the 120 days resets.

But the guarantee is a safety net, not the strategy. The goal was never to replace your hire. It's to get it right the first time.

If you can't say how your last shortlist was verified, fix that before the next one. Reply to this email or book a call below, and I'll walk you through exactly what we check.

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To your growth,
The Go Carpathian Team