Sun Dahan

// The Hiring Thesis · Published 2026

Talent Is an Asset Nobody Owns.

A year of products, conversations, and data — distilled into one argument about hiring. Free to read, built on things that shipped.

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Introduction — Why I Wrote ThisSTART HERE

Part 1

The Page

What a resume actually is, what it throws away, and why everyone keeps using it anyway.

3 chapters · 19 min

  1. Ch 1You Can't See Your Own First Impression5 min
  2. Ch 2What the Page Throws Away5 min
  3. Ch 3Why People Cling to the Resume9 min

Part 2

Too Much Noise

AI is flooding every application, and hiring teams are too stretched to see the people inside them.

4 chapters · 30 min

  1. Ch 4The Erased Signal4 min
  2. Ch 5The Flood6 min
  3. Ch 6The Recruiter's Real Experience10 min
  4. Ch 7The Hiring Side Is Broken Too10 min

Part 3

What's Missing

Where the real signal lives, why it never gets captured, and why nobody is rushing to fix it.

4 chapters · 37 min

  1. Ch 8People Open Up When Something Listens8 min
  2. Ch 9Hard to Measure, Easy to Blame5 min
  3. Ch 10Nobody's Incentivized to Fully Fix This10 min
  4. Ch 11Talent Is Uncaptured Data14 min

Part 4

The Way Forward

What has to be built, and what to do in the meantime.

2 chapters · 13 min

  1. Ch 12The Engine5 min
  2. Ch 13What This Means8 min