Warm Body, Figma Skills, Good Luck. That’s Hiring Now.

Why do recruiters only need two minutes to decide if you're worth a call?I talked to Josh Silverman, founder of PeopleWork Partners, who has as spent 30 years connecting designers with opportunities, and recently placing candidates at companies like Target, Netflix, and OpenAI, and he told me the whole hiring system runs on guesswork dressed up as process.Here's what we go over:Why most recruiters spend one to two minutes on a portfolio before sorting a candidate into a yes or no pileHow the entire burden of proving a good hire falls on the candidate, while nobody ever checks if the company or manager was actually the right fitWhy your best work gets stuck in Jira tickets and Slack threads that disappear the moment you leave a job About Josh SilvermanJosh Silverman is the founder and CEO of PeopleWork Partners (peoplework.partners). He spent a decade chairing the Master of Interaction Design program at California College of the Arts before the school's closure, and he now places designers and product people in roles at companies including Target, Cisco, Netflix, and OpenAI. He thinks the resume is a dead format and that soft skills, not technical ones, are actually the harder skills to master.About Great Mondays Radio→ Think you'd be a great guest on the show? Apply here.→ I've spent two decades helping leaders fix their culture. Learn how I can support your work Great Mondays.→ Want sharp takes on AI and the future of work? Read The Job Sh*t Show on Substack.→ Watch Great Mondays Radio episodes on YouTube.