Meet the Robotic Unicorn Ghost of Modern IT Recruitment

Meet the Robotic Unicorn Ghost - the unofficial emblem of the modern IT recruitment industry 🦄 🤣 Do you like him?

Half unicorn.

Half robot.

Half ghost.

(All maths aside…that’s one hell of a hire.) I created this mythical creature to honour the kind of candidate employers still think is out there:

• 12 years’ experience in a tech that’s 5 years old

• Can lead teams, write code, charm stakeholders, design architecture, run Agile retros, and brew kombucha

• Will accept $20k below market rate and be “grateful” for the opportunity

And if you’re not a perfect match?

Your application? Filtered out. Ghosted.

Your LinkedIn message? Ghosted.

Your actual soul? Probably…ghosted.

Meanwhile, the hiring manager's team left behind is juggling three roles, working weekends and slowly losing the will to Zoom.

All in the hopes that one day…

The perfect, unicorn ghost will arrive.

And fix it all.

But here’s the twist:

Unicorns aren’t real.

Bots help the recruitment process, not do it on auto-pilot.

And ghosting talent only haunts your employer brand.

What if we stopped hunting myths and started hiring humans?

What if we looked for potential, not perfection?

What if…we let the unicorn go back to be the mythical creature it longs to be?

Let's celebrate the mythical unicorn together. Tell us your story in the comments!