The CV is the global currency for jobs. And it's fundamentally flawed.

There is almost no business process on earth that works the same way in every country. Payroll differs. Contracts differ. Even the working week differs. But post a job anywhere in the world, and the price of entry is identical: hand over a CV. In this episode, Willo co-founder and CEO Euan Cameron, in the guest chair for the first time in three seasons, makes the case that hiring's only truly global convention is also its most broken one. He tells the real founding story behind Willo: what it's like to be dyslexic in a hiring process built entirely around text, and the moment he realized millions of candidates were being filtered out by a format, not by their ability. From there, the conversation gets practical and pointed: the single biggest hiring mistake companies keep making, the bias that survives even inside proudly progressive teams, what six years of running a company that has never once asked for a CV actually looks like, and what changes first, and slowest, when an enterprise hiring team finally starts reading signal instead of paper.

What you'll learn: → The founding story: how being dyslexic in a text-based hiring world became the reason Willo exists → Why past experience is the weakest predictor hiring teams still treat as the strongest → The "safe bet" bias that quietly survives inside even the most progressive companies → What actually breaks, and what quietly just works, when you remove the CV from your process completely → How Willo Insights turns overwhelming candidate volume into evidence, so the right person never slips through for being quiet

GUEST
Euan Cameron, Co-founder & CEO, Willo
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/euanacameron

YOUR HOST
Anita Chauhan
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Looks Good on Paper is a hiring and careers podcast hosted by Anita Chauhan and powered by Willo. In this episode, Willo co-founder and CEO Euan Cameron explains why the CV functions as a flawed global currency for jobs, why relying on past experience is the biggest mistake in modern hiring, which hidden biases persist inside progressive companies, and how Willo Insights helps enterprise hiring teams evaluate every candidate at scale using evidence instead of resumes.

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