[Verse 1] Sarah's got the skills to code and lead the team Ten years building apps, she lives the coding dream But the ATS machine just scanned her resume No bachelor's degree, so it throws her away The system's looking for the perfect paper trail While real talent gets lost in the automated fail [Chorus] HR's hiring failure, screening out the best Seventy-five percent rejected, never pass the test Keywords over capability, boxes over brains The hiring paradigm is broken, talented people pay the pain Fiction in job descriptions, interviews that lie Culture fit means just like us, diversity denied [Verse 2] Job description says you need a PhD For a role that's really just basic HTML and CSS Written by HR who's never touched the code Approved by managers from a different episode Five to seven years required, bachelor's preferred But the actual daily work? That's never heard [Chorus] HR's hiring failure, screening out the best Seventy-five percent rejected, never pass the test Keywords over capability, boxes over brains The hiring paradigm is broken, talented people pay the pain Fiction in job descriptions, interviews that lie Culture fit means just like us, diversity denied [Bridge] Tell me about a time when you overcame But introverts can't play the interview game Hidden workers by the millions cast aside While mediocre resumes get to take the ride Harvard studied, documented what we know Quality candidates have nowhere to go [Verse 3] Structured questions test your storytelling skill Not whether you can code or lead with will Culture fit screening sounds so nice and clean But it's bias with a process in between The timeline takes so long the good ones leave While the desperate and available we receive [Chorus] HR's hiring failure, screening out the best Seventy-five percent rejected, never pass the test Keywords over capability, boxes over brains The hiring paradigm is broken, talented people pay the pain Fiction in job descriptions, interviews that lie Culture fit means just like us, diversity denied [Outro] Industrial scale rejection of the qualified Automated screening leaves the talent denied The system's optimizing for the wrong thing Real performance lost in the process ring
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