No CVs. No Cover Letters; a Hiring Experiment

Hector Hughes
2 min readSep 28, 2021

I’m biased. It took me a long time to figure that out.

It’s alarming now I see it.

Rife

I’ve spent most of my life thinking I was rational. A ludicrous idea, I know. It’s difficult for any of us to be truly rational. We each do our hopeless best at filtering the world around us. The only way that’s possible is through constantly making assumptions and simplifications. Mistakes are made.

I find it fascinating quite how much bias there is at companies. It’s rife. All the…

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Hector Hughes

Providing a digital detox in the countryside around London with Unplugged. I write a weekly email on the lessons learnt at: https://unplugging.substack.com/