You're Already Paying for Candidate Screening. Pay the Candidates Instead.
Recruiters, resume screens and assessment software sell hirers old signals. The case for moving the screening budget to candidates themselves, paying for their work and the reasoning behind it.
How Pudding works under the hood
What Pudding's live work demos run on (LiveKit and Gemini's realtime API), why we chose them, and how the product was actually built.
Types of Video Interviews: One-Way, Two-Way and AI Formats Compared
The four types of video interviews hirers use today, from one-way recorded pitches and AI-scored interviews to conversational AI and live calls, compared on direction, timing, retakes and whether anyone can ask a follow-up. With research on what each format costs.
Work Sample Automation: How to Request, Collect, and Pay for Candidate Work Samples
How hiring managers can get useful work samples from candidates: why they predict performance, which roles have them, how to request and collect them, and why paid work demos give better results.
Unpaid take-home assignments: are they exploitative? A fair look at both sides
Thousands of posts call unpaid take-homes exploitative. Some of that anger is earned and some is not. What the law actually says, where an assessment turns into free labor, and what a fair honorarium looks like.