Recruiting is broken—and it’s our fault

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Sebastian Hjärne
Feb 17, 2025
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Recruiting was always meant to be about people, about potential. About figuring out who would thrive in your team—not just who ticked boxes on paper.

Somewhere along the way, we lost that.

We started treating hiring like a numbers game. More applicants, more filters, more tools to screen faster. The goal became to get through the pile, not to get to know the person.

Now we're buried in résumés. We’re scanning for keywords. We're relying on platforms that sort candidates by who knows how to write a better CV—not who’s actually right for the role.

And in all this noise, the very thing that makes someone a great hire—their personality, their ambition, their way of thinking—gets completely overlooked.

We buried people under process

The best hires aren't always the ones who look perfect on paper. They’re the ones who show up with curiosity, who learn fast, who care. But those things don’t show up in a filterable field.

You can’t quantify "would be a great culture fit" or "figures things out quickly" in an ATS. Yet those are the traits that move teams forward.

We made recruiting robotic

Somewhere along the way, the human side of hiring got replaced by checklists and scorecards.
It became about volume, not connection. Speed, not fit.

What’s missing is intuition. Context. Real understanding.

It’s time to go where you belong

Everyone deserves to do meaningful work in a place that sees their potential.
To feel like they belong—not because they gamed the hiring process, but because someone took the time to truly understand what they bring.

That’s the core belief behind Talentium.

We’re here to make hiring human again.
To help candidates and companies find each other not through buzzwords, but through real fit.
Through growth signals, not gimmicks.
Through substance, not noise.

Talentium is here to fix what’s broken

We built Talentium to cut through the chaos and help you focus on what matters.
It doesn’t just pull in résumés. It reads between the lines. It spots the person behind the profile. It highlights the kind of potential that actually makes a difference inside a team.

Because when people are matched to the right roles—when they go where they belong—everything works better.

The team gets stronger. The work gets better.

That should be the norm, not the exception.

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