11 articles by Mashal
Made to be found
Recruiters find candidates by searching for keywords, then scanning what returns. A LinkedIn profile written to be found beats one that is only polished.
Tailor your resume to every job? The math says yes
Tailored resumes lift response rates about 52 percent. The problem is the hour each one costs. The arithmetic, and how machine-scale tailoring fixes it.
Not for sale
Most job seekers assume their data goes only to employers. On eight of nine major platforms, it is also for sale. CoBlack was built to sell none of it.
The mask for the machine
When people believe AI is judging them, they hide their empathy and creativity to look more like a machine. CoBlack was built so no one has to.
Cheap talk
The cover letter asked job seekers to prove they cared. AI made that proof free to fake, and the ritual quietly died.
Trust ran out
Active job hunters fell from 42 percent to 35 percent in a year. People did not stop searching because they found work. They stopped trusting the search.
The harder side
CoBlack is free for job seekers. Not a free trial, not freemium. This is why we built it that way and what it means for how the platform works.
Finding the right job for you
Applying everywhere feels productive but leads nowhere. Finding the right job starts with knowing what you actually want and filtering everything else out.
No Filters
Hiring is full of filters that have little to do with whether you can do the work. CoBlack was built without them.
Know You First
Every other career platform starts with a resume and a keyword. CoBlack starts with you, and the resume is only the beginning.
Six pillars of being Human First
CoBlack's Human First philosophy in a nutshell. We are big on the problem and not so much on using buzzwords.