The Job Market Isn’t a Meritocracy. Maybe We Should Stop Pretending It Is.

What happens when someone questions a decision made by a senior leader? What happens when an employee identifies a harmful pattern, challenges a broken process, or points out that the culture people are experiencing does not match the culture being advertised?

There is a strange assumption built into hiring that we rarely stop to question...

Hiring is not a test of endurance. It’s a test of judgment. The moment exhaustion outweighs evidence, hiring stops being a strategy and becomes a liability. Ethical hiring cannot be sustained on exhaustion.