How 'Trace Hiring' Can Reclaim Human Authenticity in the Age of AI

AI has flooded hiring with low-effort applications, leaving recruiters drowning in resumes that no longer prove real intent or ability. My new piece for the World Economic Forum introduces 'trace hiring', a stigmergy-inspired framework that replaces credentials and polished applications with authentic traces of how candidates think, adapt and collaborate under real conditions, moving from a video response to a real problem, to a live group exercise, to a closing self-reflection that is hard to fake.

Read the full piece on why the resume is failing and what should replace it:

How 'Trace Hiring' Can Reclaim Human Authenticity in the Age of AI — World Economic Forum

By Marvin Starominski-Uehara, World Economic Forum, August 13, 2026

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