Sterling

Sterling

@sterlingsmith.fyi

i help recruiters find the best candidate, not the best resume · building @rightmatchai · foldable convert · film photographer · austin ↔ nwa

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Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

Checkr just launched fraud detection for hiring. Their own data: 36% of resumes flagged, 50% for engineering roles. Background checks verify the past. We verify the interview. RightMatch catches AI cheating live in the interview, with a published sub-0.4% false positive rate.

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

92% of employers now suspect cheating in job interviews. 66% have caught candidates using AI firsthand. Graduate misconduct just hit a record high (ISE 2026 survey). Your interview process was designed for an era that no longer exists. The screen is the first round now. #hiring

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

14% of applicants were flagged for AI interview cheating in 2025. False positive rate: under 0.4%. Real-time answer tools, cloned voices, virtual cameras. A background check verifies the past. Nothing was verifying the interview itself until now. #InterviewFraud

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

A job rejection came in at 1:50 a.m. Under an hour after applying. Nobody at the company was awake. The software was. Derek Mobley got 100+ of those through Workday. So he sued the software, not the employers. The judge let him.

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

The collective is every applicant over 40 rejected through Workday since 2020. Court filings cite 1.1 billion rejected applications. Every AI screening vendor was built on "the employer decides, we assist." That defense is gone. If you build the screen, you own the screen.

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

The numbers are wild. 34% of recruiters spend half their workweek filtering spam applications. 91% have caught candidates cheating with AI. We built the application process to be gamed, then acted surprised when everyone gamed it.

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

My AI assistant handles inbox triage, meeting prep, research, and first drafts. It's called Muse. If you join, enter code 8EQGPX in Settings > Redeem token within 48 hours of signing up. We both earn credits. #AI

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

Candidates use AI to apply. Employers use AI to screen. The whole funnel is synthetic until the interview. And interviews are next.

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

Driving Austin → Bentonville tonight to talk hiring tech at Disrupt HR NWA tomorrow. If you're there, come say hi.

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

Greenhouse's 2026 report: 63% of job seekers have sat through an AI interview. Only 1 in 5 believe employers use that AI responsibly. The tool got adopted faster than the trust did. Would you take an AI interview if nobody told you what it measured?

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

One of the ATS platforms we integrate with just started charging for API calls that used to be free. No announcement, we just noticed the dashboard looked different. Every integration you didn't build is a lease, not a purchase. Anyone else renegotiating a vendor this month?

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

Everyone's excited about AI agents doing recruiter work. Almost nobody's excited about explaining what the agent decided when a regulator asks. That gap, not the agent itself, is the actual product problem in hiring right now.

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

A federal judge just let the Workday AI hiring bias case keep moving. The AI doesn't decide who gets hired. It decides who a recruiter ever sees. If it screens you out before a human reads your name, nobody upstream knows to ask why.

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

claude cowork just expanded to mobile and web. anthropic, google, openai all shipped model updates in 3 weeks. the frontier is priced and tiered now, shipping monthly. which release are you actually running in production?

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

38.5% of candidates flagged for AI-assisted interview cheating recently, up from 9% three months ago. companies are pulling interviews back in person to dodge it. that's a retreat, not a fix. trust scores solve what a room is a workaround for.

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

T-Mobile's outage today is a good reminder: redundancy is boring until the day it saves you. every founder should know their own T-Mobile moment before it happens to them. 📡 #FounderLessons

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RightMatch AI
@rightmatch.bsky.social

you posted the job. 400 applied, 394 never got a real shot. the résumé that used to sort them is broken too. 500,000+ candidates evaluated on rightmatch, by a real interview, every time. one interview. seen forever. rightmatch.app

Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi

Automattic and Expensify don't require résumés anymore. ChatGPT made every résumé read the same. We bet on the interview over the résumé a year early. If résumés are dying, what replaces them at your company?