Uncovering What's Wrong with the U.S. Job Market
We're investigating potential systemic barriers that may be preventing qualified professionals from reentering the workforce.
Are You Experiencing These U.S. Job Market Barriers?
Extended Unemployment Despite Strong Qualifications?
Are you a senior professional who can't get interviews despite decades of experience?
Resume Being Filtered Out Before Human Review?
Do you feel like your application is being rejected by algorithms before anyone sees it?
Quietly Excluded from Opportunities?
Have you been "flagged" and systematically excluded without explanation?
Tech Industry Programmer Out of Work?
Have you been unemployed for an abnormally long time in the tech sector?
Pharma Professional Struggling to Get Interviews?
Are you a senior pharma professional who can't get interviews despite your experience?
Being "Cancelled" in the U.S. Job Market?
Are you effectively barred from reentering the workforce regardless of merit?
Our Investigation
We are investigating growing concerns about hiring practices in critical U.S. industries, particularly technology and pharmaceuticals, since the onset of COVID-19. There is evidence suggesting that Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) may be doing more than simple resume sorting.
These systems could potentially be enabling profiling, data matching, and information sharing that gives undue influence to a small number of decision-makers over workforce access. This is supported by the remarkable uniformity of political and ideological identity found among employees at leading firms.
Our mission is simple: to shine a light on hiring practices that may be undermining opportunity, suppressing diversity of perspective, and concentrating power over the future of the U.S. workforce in the hands of a few.
If true, these practices represent not only a profound breach of fairness and transparency but also a direct threat to the diversity of thought and innovation on which the American economy depends.
Help Us Uncover the Truth
We're collecting stories from senior-level professionals—particularly those with strong qualifications who have been out of work for an unusually long period of time relative to their experience.
Share your story and help us uncover what is wrong with the U.S. job market.
Your information will be treated with the highest level of confidentiality and used solely for the purpose of this investigation.