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The proof economy · India · 2026

Boycott the résumé.
Ship the proof.

You sent 187 résumés. You got 3 replies. 244,851 tech jobs gone in 2025. ATS bots reject 75% of CVs before a human reads them.

The résumé is over. You build. AI grades. Recruiters search by score. That's the new game.

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The numbers nobody tells you

You aren't failing. The market is.

Real numbers from Layoffs.fyi, NASSCOM, Naukri Insights & RBI labour reports — 2025.

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Tech jobs cut globally in 2025
Source — Layoffs.fyi
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Drop in fresher hiring (FY22 → FY25)
Source — NASSCOM
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Time a recruiter spends on your résumé
Source — TheLadders study
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Résumés rejected by ATS bots before a human sees them
Source — Jobscan 2025
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Why "just apply more" stopped working

The advice your seniors gave you was right — for 2018. It's 2026. The rules changed and nobody told you.

Old playbook
Polish your résumé.
ATS scans 1,200 résumés in 3 seconds. Yours is one of 1,200. The recruiter never sees it.
Old playbook
Get more certifications.
Coursera certificates are on every résumé. They prove you watched a video — not that you can build.
Old playbook
Apply to 100 jobs a day.
Spray-and-pray gets you ghosted. Companies hire signals, not volume.
Old playbook
Your college brand will save you.
It might get a callback in 2018. In 2026, hiring managers ask: 'Show me what you've built.'
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Companies stopped buying
résumés. They started buying proof.

A GitHub link with 5 working AI projects beats any 2-page CV. An AI-verified score beats any college name. A public portfolio beats any reference.

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  • Recruiters search by score + skills, not college tier
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A short note from the founder

I'm Kundan Khatri. I've watched friends with 9.5 CGPAs send 200+ applications and get 3 interviews. I've watched seniors at TCS get a calendar invite at 11am that ended their career by 12.

The problem isn't that they aren't good. The problem is the résumé — a piece of paper that gets pattern-matched by a bot — was never the right way to prove what someone can actually do.

ZT is the platform I wished existed when I started. You build real things. The AI grades you on what you shipped, not on what you say. Recruiters see your actual code, not a 2-page lie.

If it doesn't work for you — DM me on LinkedIn and tell me why. I read every message. — Kundan

Founder on LinkedIn hello@zerotheory.live

You've got two doors.

Door 1: Keep tweaking the résumé. Keep applying. Keep refreshing your inbox.
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