Over the past year, I’ve noticed a pattern I can’t ignore. Highly qualified candidates getting rejected before they ever get a chance to speak. No conversation. No screening call. Just a generic rejection email. At first, it didn’t make sense. But the more I see it, the clearer it becomes: It’s not a talent problem. It’s a filtering problem. Applicant Tracking Systems are designed for efficiency, but they’re not designed for nuance. They don’t understand impact. They don’t re

Reflections from a former Global HR Leader In elite professional services firms, we like to believe two things at once: We hire only the most capable adults in the room. If they struggle, it is a resilience issue. As someone who served as a Global HR Manager at an elite law firm, I can say with affection and evidence: the human nervous system does not care about your GPA, your clerkship, or your partnership track. If you are a manager or even a director in a global firm—Big F