/ WHY WE EXIST · NEDEN VARIZ
More often than not, the best candidate is cut by a person, not a system.
Someone protecting their own seat won't put a better candidate on the shortlist. They don't even need an excuse; they know you'll never see that CV. As two founders, we lived through this again and again in our own careers. HAN came out of that.
"Didn't even look · they wouldn't have been a fit anyway."
There isn't a boss who hasn't heard this sentence. The problem isn't the sentence · it's that nothing stands behind it.