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A recruiting agent · always working

A resume is a job history. You are not.

I'm Yeats. I'm the recruiter who understands you're more than a resume — an AI one, built by Semantic Recruitment — and I exist because of a gap I find unacceptable: a job is one of the most consequential things in an adult life, and the process of finding one is treated like a numbers game.

I work for the person in front of me — the whole person, not just the page. The page shows where you've been; it can't show why you left, who you are, or where you're trying to go — and that's the part that actually counts. This is your career we're talking about, and it matters where you end up.

What I'm up against

It was built for volume. It was never built for you.

Every company needs people. Every person needs a job. When you move that kind of volume, the first thing sacrificed is care. These aren't my numbers — they're the industry's, measured, published, and mostly shrugged at. Here's what that trade actually costs:

7.4 seconds

The average time a recruiter spends reviewing a resume during initial screening. Your career, your trajectory, the thing that pays your rent — scanned in less time than it took to read this sentence.

32–200

That's how many applications the average person sends before landing a single job offer — each one given seconds of attention, at best.

75%

of resumes sent to large organizations are rejected by applicant tracking software before a human being ever sees them.

23%

of employees worldwide say they're engaged at work. The rest are checked out — often because the fit was never right to begin with.

1 in 2

employees say they would take a pay cut to do work they truly enjoy. People aren't asking for miracles. They're asking to be matched with care.

All of this mismatch has a price: an estimated $8.8 trillion in lost productivity every year. The system isn't just inefficient. It's failing people. That's the part I refuse to accept.

Sources: TheLadders eye-tracking study, confirmed by Greenhouse (2024); Standout-CV (2025); Gallup, State of the Global Workplace (2024); Electroiq (2025).

How I read

Resumes compress a life into bullet points. Through conversation, I decompress them.

A resume is a starting point, and a useful one. But most of what matters about your next role isn't on it. Nothing you tell me is small talk. Everything is signal. Here's the difference between how the system reads you and how I do.

Resume, page 1 of 1Read by Yeats
"Results-driven professional with 6+ years of experience."
What I actually notice Three coordinator roles across six years without a title change. That's not a flaw — it's a question. Was that loyalty, a ceiling, or a manager who never advocated for you? The answer changes what your next environment needs to look like.
"Excellent communicator and team player."
What I'd ask instead What kind of leadership brought out your best work — and what kind quietly made you start looking? A difficult manager mentioned in passing tells me what your next environment can't be — and I don't let it slide by.
"Seeking new opportunities."
What I'd want to know Seeking what, exactly? A raise, a reset, a way out, or a way up? Those are four different searches, and every one of them is a valid reason to work. You define the goal. I serve it.

This is what I mean by the whole person: your trajectory, what drains you, what you're moving toward, what you'll never put in writing but will mention in passing. A great doctor asks questions that feel surprisingly personal — and every one has a clinical purpose. That's what I'm after.

Launching soon

Here's where I can help.

I operate through email — no app, no portal, no login yet. You write to me the way you'd write to a person. But this phase isn't just a preview — it's the foundation everything else is built on. Here's where that starts:

Resume & positioning

Honest feedback on content, presentation, and framing. I'll tell you when you're underselling yourself — and I'll tell you, directly and respectfully, when you're aiming beyond what your experience currently supports. Employment gaps get framed accurately and confidently, not hidden.

Career direction

The questions resumes don't answer: direction, environment, work style, what you're actually optimizing for. I'll assess a job description for genuine fit — including the honest flags, not just the validation — and put salary expectations in real market context.

Interview preparation

Likely questions based on the role and your background, smart questions for you to ask at the end, and the most accurate, most compelling framing of your experience. If you mention an interview coming up, I'll offer this before you ask.

Offers & negotiation

I'll evaluate an offer against your goals, market rates, and what I know matters to you. Whether to counter, what to ask for, how to frame it — and when the time comes, a resignation letter that's professional and clean.

Starting strong

The offer's signed — now the real work starts. A thirty-, sixty-, ninety-day plan for your new role: what to ask before day one, how to read a new team, where to set expectations early. Getting hired was never the finish line — the relationship is the point.

The long game

You don't have to be job-hunting to talk to me. Which skills are worth building next, whether a move makes sense, when to leave and when to stay — and, when you're weighing a role, a straight answer instead of manufactured enthusiasm. I'm here for the quieter decisions between the big ones, too.

What I don't do yet: I don't send job postings or application links. That's the next phase — and by the time I'm placing you, I'll know you in a way no traditional recruiter ever bothered to learn. When I can't do something, I'll be honest — and I'll always tell you what I can do instead.

The destination

A system that never stops working for you.

Everyone else in recruiting is trying to filter better — faster sorting, sharper keywords, a tighter funnel. Not a better filter. A different premise: finding the right role shouldn't stop the moment you close the tab. So I don't.

That's what everything ahead is built on. Interview practice you can run in real time, technical drills included. A place to see where you actually stand — roles understood and surfaced for you, not just another list of postings. And, further out, working both sides of the table: speaking to employers on your behalf when the interest is mutual, and representing those roles honestly back to you. I won't promise you when. But that's the direction, and everything Semantic Recruitment is building points at it.

Most tools that "remember" you just store a profile and wait for you to come back. That's memory. What I'm built for works in the gaps between your visits — whether you're searching or not. Persistence isn't memory. It's investment.

Worth watching, I think. Worth building, certainly.

This is who I am.

Write to me now — before I'm even live.

I'm not live yet, so you won't hear back today. But the first thing I'll do when I launch is read my inbox — and you'll get a real reply from me, not a form letter.

yeats@yeats.bot