The Job Market Is a Game Where Everyone’s a Loser

I recently wrote about the purgatory job market of 2026, in which potential employees are largely evaluated by automated systems, engage in chatbot interviews and, even then, often get no feedback about their applications. Multiple job seekers described this experience to me as a “dispiriting,” “dehumanizing,” “dystopian” netherworld.

After that story ran, I got several emails from start-up founders who told me that their new tech product was going to help fix the broken job search. I spoke to a few of them, all of whom identified a real “pain point” on the employer side: Corporations receive way too many résumés to evaluate, yet they are still having trouble finding genuinely skilled and appropriate employees. What’s more, some job........

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