What candidate conversations reveal that a résumé can't

A résumé tells you where someone worked. It rarely tells you why they left, what they were actually responsible for, or what would make them move again.

Collected consistently, those answers become a working model of how a local market thinks about work: which employers people avoid, which titles are inflated, what pay range ends a conversation early.

The discipline is in the recording, not the talking. Recruiters who log what candidates asked and what made them hesitate build insight that shortens the next search.