Lottery Hiring After Screening

Treat hiring like grantmaking under overload: run a quick competence screen, then allocate interviews or offers by lottery among the qualified. This converts today’s de facto randomness into transparent, low‑work selection and deters spammy mass applications. It borrows from microbiologists Fang and Casadevall’s grant‑lottery proposal when peer review can’t reliably discriminate at the top. — It reframes HR policy and AI‑era labor markets around mechanism design rather than ever‑stricter filters that fail under scale.