What happens when you remove CVs from the hiring process? In our season 2 supercut, our leaders debate bias, volume, video, AI, and what truly helps candidates stand out.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why CVs feel both essential and outdated for modern hiring teams
• How video, portfolios, and short‑form content change candidate evaluation
• Where AI‑guided screening is improving fairness and scalability
• What candidates really worry about when asked for extra materials (like Looms)
• The growing expectation that employers must modernize, too—not just candidates

🎬 Our Season 2 Supercut

This episode brings together a range of hiring leaders—from high‑volume talent teams reviewing 35,000+ monthly applications to people‑first organizations like Clio, Float, Remote and PurposeMed—each sharing real‑world experience on what breaks and what improves when you move beyond the traditional CV. Their perspectives highlight the evolving landscape of candidate experience, modern screening tools, and the push for more equitable, human‑centred hiring practices.

🎧 About the Show

Looks Good on Paper is a Willo-powered podcast where talent leaders and founders share real hiring insights to help teams build fairer, more thoughtful hiring processes.

👉 https://www.willo.video/

📺 Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/-pQoGAfacxI

💬 Follow us on LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/willovideo/

⏱ Episode Chapters

00:02 — What if CVs disappeared tomorrow?

00:26 — Vanilla resumes & missed opportunities

00:43 — Bias, LinkedIn profiles & recruiter friction

01:08 — The cover‑letter love/hate divide

01:18 — CVs as structure vs. limitation

01:38 — What makes a candidate stand out today

01:55 — Beyond experience: solving ambiguity + panel comfort

02:30 — Candidate choice & PurposeMed’s AI‑guided screening

02:53 — Using AI to improve equity and conversation quality

03:14 — Looms, burden, and candidate trust

03:40 — A world without CVs: video as the new first impression

04:14 — Employers must evolve if candidates are expected to

04:34 — What CVs miss & layering deeper context

05:00 — Closing thoughts: modern hiring, modern tools

📌 We’ve got plenty more hot takes, so if you enjoyed this episode, follow/subscribe and leave a quick rating or review. Are you a talent leader and want to be on the show? Let us know!

Show Resources

• Willo: willo.video - The most cost-effective way to screen candidates at scale. Interview candidates anywhere & at any time
• CV Free Toolkit: cvfree.me/join - Break up with the CV and get everything you need to modernize your hiring approach with skills-based assessments
• Anita Chauhan: linkedin.com/in/anitachauhan - Connect with the host

Hiring rarely fails because teams don't care-it fails because decisions get rushed. In this episode, Tia Fomenoff (VP of People at PurposeMed) breaks down why reactive hiring, charisma bias, and burnout quietly undermine great teams-and how people leaders can plan ahead instead.

In this episode we’ll talk about

• Why waiting too long to hire turns roles into "emergencies"
• How reactive hiring leads to burnout and poor decision-making
• The hidden bias toward charismatic candidates-and how it shows up in interviews
• Why introverted candidates often outperform louder ones
• How PurposeMed is thinking about AI, automation, and human-first hiring for 2026

👤 Guest Bio

Tia Fomenoff is the VP of People at PurposeMed, where she's helping build an accessible, compassionate healthcare system for underserved communities through brands like Freddy, Freida, and Fourier. With a non-traditional path spanning nonprofit work, digital marketing, and scaling teams at Unbounce, Buffer, and Thinkific each from 20 employees over 500, Tia brings a people-first, practical approach to hiring, culture, and growth.

👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiafomenoff/

🎧 About the Show

Looks Good on Paper is a Willo-powered podcast where talent leaders and founders share real hiring insights to help teams build fairer, more thoughtful hiring processes.

👉 https://www.willo.video/

📺 Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/-pQoGAfacxI

💬 Follow us on LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/willovideo/

⏱ Episode Chapters

00:00 - Welcome & intro to Tia Fomenoff

00:47 - From nonprofit work to tech & people leadership

02:48 - Why Tia joined PurposeMed

03:41 - The biggest hiring mistake: waiting too long

05:25 - Reactive hiring, burnout, and exhausted leaders

06:09 - Planning proactively with hiring managers

07:47 - Hidden bias: charisma vs substance

09:56 - How introverted candidates get overlooked

10:50 - Can you remove CVs from hiring?

11:25 - Application questions, cover letters, and effort

13:10 - Offering candidates choice in interviews

14:45 - Hiring trends for 2026: AI with intention

16:40 - Long-term sourcing and building pipelines early

17:10 - Wrap-up and what's next

📌 We’ve got plenty more hot takes, so if you enjoyed this episode, follow/subscribe and leave a quick rating or review. Are you a talent leader and want to be on the show? Let us know!

Show Resources

• Willo: willo.video - The most cost-effective way to screen candidates at scale. Interview candidates anywhere & at any time
• CV Free Toolkit: cvfree.me/join - Break up with the CV and get everything you need to modernize your hiring approach with skills-based assessments
• Anita Chauhan: linkedin.com/in/anitachauhan - Connect with the host

Global hiring is changing faster than most teams can keep up. In this episode, Remote's Senior Director of Onboarding & Business Operations, Noelle Pittock, shares how her team screens 35,000+ applicants a month all while staying human.

On this week’s episode, you'll learn

• Why hiring only within commuting distance quietly kills your talent strategy
• How to turn company values into real behaviors in a fully remote workforce
• What "CV bias" looks like-and how Remote is designing around it
• How agentic and generative AI can open up equity in early-stage screening
• The top skills and trends Remote is watching for HR leaders heading into 2026

👓 About the guest

Noelle Pittock is the Senior Director of Onboarding and Business Operations at Remote, where she leads a global team of 100+ specialists across EMEA and APAC. With a background in B2B and content marketing, she brings a uniquely creative lens to operations, overseeing Remote's employer of record division and helping companies onboard and pay global talent quickly, compliantly, and with a standout service experience.

📌 About Remote

Remote is a global HR company that helps businesses hire, manage, and pay talent anywhere in the world-compliantly and seamlessly. From employer-of-record services to global payroll and benefits, Remote gives teams the infrastructure to scale across borders with confidence.

📄 About Looks Good on Paper / Willo

Looks Good on Paper is your weekly source for hot takes from modern talent leaders, recruiters, and powered by Willo, the async video platform helping teams hire faster-and more thoughtfully - at scale.

⏱ Chapters

00:16 - Welcome to Looks Good on Paper & intro to Noelle

00:25 - What Remote does & Noelle's role leading 100+ global specialists

01:49 - The biggest hiring mistake: only hiring within office radius

02:40 - Flexibility, talent shortages & why local hiring is failing (Remote data)

04:16 - Turning values into real behaviors on global remote teams

05:32 - Remote's public handbook & cultural infrastructure

06:38 - Values that evolve as your company grows

07:19 - Hidden leadership bias: cloning your top performer's CV

08:39 - Why CVs don't predict success & how Remote hires differently

09:43 - "We're already kind of CV-free": 35,000 applications a month

10:39 - Using agentic & generative AI to open up equity in screening

11:43 - Ditching "3-5 years experience" in job descriptions

12:48 - Making hiring criteria more progressive and candidate-friendly

13:30 - Are we missing great people with AI filters?

14:42 - Hiring trends for 2026: generalists, global flexibility & automation

15:52 - Cultural competency as a hiring superpower

16:24 - Final thoughts & closing on the future of work

⭐ Enjoyed this conversation with Noelle Pittock? Follow or subscribe and leave a quick rating or review to help more talent leaders discover the show.

🙋🏽‍♂️ Building global teams or rethinking hiring? We’d love to hear from you — reach out if you want to be on the podcast.

Show Resources

• Willo: willo.video - The most cost-effective way to screen candidates at scale. Interview candidates anywhere & at any time
• CV Free Toolkit: cvfree.me/join - Break up with the CV and get everything you need to modernize your hiring approach with skills-based assessments
• Anita Chauhan: linkedin.com/in/anitachauhan - Connect with the host