Post by Milan Polák

New venture alert: Meet DecodeMerit. After running a successful pilot since last year, I’m officially going all-in on this mission to change the way we approach hiring. 🚀 Having conducted 200+ interviews in 2025 as a Hiring Manager and Country Lead, I realized a massive, systemic failure in the job market: Candidates don’t know how to apply, and companies don’t know how to hire based on actual merit. Instead of true meritocracy, we get generic AI-generated applications on one side, and biased "gut feelings" on the other. So, I ran a pilot project to see if we could "hack" the hiring process. The result? My initial clients dominated the hiring process and progressed straight toward their dream jobs. Now, I am scaling this into an applied research venture. I’m not an HR person. I am starting cross-functional applied research to decode the merit for instance by: - Approaching systems like a Hacker - Crafting applications assets like a Designer - Running campaigns like a Marketer - And way more... I explain the full journey, the exact problem, how my method solves it, and what this applied research looks like, in the video below. Watch the video, hit follow, and get ready. Because what I am dropping next... well, you won't want to miss it. 👇 This is DecodeMerit. #Meritocracy #Hiring #CareerAdvice #Recruitment #JobSearch #CareerHacking

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