The Shift to Career Dating with Robert Foldes

Job boards promised speed. What they delivered was volume: resumes optimized for keyword bots on one side, and 5,000 applicants for a single role on the other. Filtering got faster. Matching didn't get better.In this episode of The Shift, we sit down with Robert Foldes, founder of CareerNav, a "career dating" platform built to match job seekers and organizations on more than keywords, to talk about what's actually broken in how we find work, and how we find people.We get into:Why keyword-matching optimizes for the wrong thing, for job seekers and employers alikeThe aha moment from Robert's own job search — and why he started treating it like datingCulture fit vs. "culture connectedness": the shift from hiring "more of the same" to hiring for shared valuesWhy small and mid-sized businesses lose the talent war to brand-name employers — even though they're the vast majority of the marketThe trouble with paying for referrals, and what breaks when the incentive replaces the trustWhy nothing replaces meeting the person — and how better data gets you there faster Because a resume can tell you what someone's done. It can't tell you who they are.Connect with Robert:LinkedInCareerNav