It’s National Fish and Chip Day. And before you ask; no, we’re not going to use this as an excuse to crowbar in a metaphor about “fishing for talent.” You deserve better than that. 

But here’s the thing about a proper chip shop order. The best ones used to come wrapped in newspaper. You’d get your cod, your chips, your little wooden fork – and wrapped around the whole thing, yesterday’s headlines. Football results. A local council story nobody read. A weather forecast that turned out to be wrong. 

The wrapping told you everything. This was built on old information. 

Sound familiar? 

The recruitment industry has been serving fresh fish in stale paper for too long. 

A candidate walks into a process. They’ve got a CV that was polished within an inch of its life. The recruiter has a job spec that was written six months ago and hasn’t been updated since. The hiring manager is working off assumptions about what they actually need. And somewhere in the middle of all that, a placement gets made – and everyone crosses their fingers. 

But it runs both ways. 

Candidates are out there applying for roles that don’t exist yet, or never quite existed in the way they were advertised. Job titles that mean something different at every company. Salary ranges buried, vague, or quietly negotiable downward once you’re already in the room. No way to verify whether the opportunity is what it says it is – or whether the company posting it is who they say they are. 

Decisions made on outdated information. Credentials taken at face value. References that nobody actually checks. Roles that bear no resemblance to the reality of the job. 

That’s not hiring. That’s hoping – on both sides of the table. 

And the industry is absolutely battered by it. Battered by bad hires that could have been avoided. Battered by good candidates who walked away disillusioned. Battered by the slow, creeping erosion of trust between employers, candidates, and the people supposed to connect them. 

The wrapping hasn’t changed. It’s just harder to read now that it’s all on a screen. 

At TYP Group, we got rid of the wrapping entirely. 

We built a platform around one uncomfortable truth; you can’t make good decisions with bad information. Employers deserve verified candidates. Candidates deserve verified roles. Verification isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s the whole point. 

When everyone knows who they’re actually dealing with – verified, credentialled, accountable – the guesswork disappears. The chips are still hot. But at least you know what’s in them. 

Happy National Fish and Chip Day. Go and get yourself a proper one. 

And if your hiring process is still wrapped in yesterday’s news – you know where we are. 

TYP Group – Real People. Real Roles. Verified.