If you ever put a job ad on LinkedIn or a similar platform, you’ve probably been inundated with applications, this is certainly what happened to us recently.

One thing that struck me was the forgotten middle:

  1. I looked at a few of the first CVs that arrived.

  2. I then devised a system to sort through the literally hundreds of CVs and using that system I did a sift of CVs.

  3. Most CVs after the sift were looked at because they trickled in rather than flooded in.

So my takeway here is:

The early bird gets the worm, the latecomer gets the glance — the middle just feeds the algorithm.

tongue off cheek now please.