Technical Recruiter

About the projectWe are looking for a current or recently active in-house recruiter or talent sourcer to participate in a short-term product research project. We are researching how recruiters evaluate resumes, cover letters, and application answers, particularly as AI-assisted applications become more common. Your feedback will help us design tools that produce more useful, accurate, and recruiter-friendly candidate materials. What you’ll help us understand• What makes a recruiter advance, deprioritize, or reject an application• Which resume changes improve relevance and which appear excessive or unnatural• How recruiters evaluate cover letters and written application answers• Which application questions commonly cause candidates to be rejected• How candidate materials are parsed and presented inside major ATS platforms• How recruiters use filtering, knockout questions, application-review criteria, candidate ranking, fraud signals, and AI-assisted screening• What recruiters consider acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI in an application What you’ll do• Participate in two or three remote research sessions• Review and compare sample resumes, cover letters, and application answers• Explain how you review and prioritize inbound applicants• Describe your application-review workflow inside the ATS platforms you have used• Provide direct, practical feedback on product concepts and improvements Ideal experience• Currently working, or recently worked, as an in-house recruiter, talent sourcer, or talent acquisition professional• At least two years of recruiting or sourcing experience• Regularly reviewed inbound job applications• Hands-on recruiter-side experience with Greenhouse, Workday, Ashby, or Lever• Familiarity with resume parsing, knockout questions, auto-rejection rules, candidate scoring, AI-assisted review, or fraud signals is helpful Agency recruiters may be considered, but recent in-house recruiting experience is strongly preferred. Project details• Approximately 5–10 hours initially• $40 per hour• Flexible remote schedule• Potential for additional research or advisory projects