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What does a recruiter actually see in the ten seconds they spend on your LinkedIn profile, and what makes them scroll past?
In this episode of Supra Insider, Marc Baselga and Ben Erez sit down with Chris Lee, founder of Product Scout, a boutique firm that helps early-stage founders make their first product hires. Chris explains the idea he calls candidate market fit, why he refuses to give profile feedback until he knows what role you’re aiming at, and why a profile built to appeal to everyone ends up resonating with no one.
Then he opens his actual tooling and walks through a live search for a head of product role at an AI-native pharma startup, showing the rubrics his agents score against and why almost everything at the top of the funnel comes down to keywords. He finishes by reviewing Marc’s and Ben’s own profiles against that role, out loud and unfiltered, and passes on both.
If you’re job searching and unsure whether your profile is working, weighing how specific to make your story, or a hiring manager curious how sourcing really happens now, this episode is for you.
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In this episode, we covered the following topics:
* (02:46) Candidate market fit: why a profile built for everyone resonates with no one
* (06:01) The dimensions Chris asks about first: company stage, level, and domain expertise
* (08:26) Why he filters out anyone outside the metro for in-person roles, even if they’d relocate
* (11:40) The ethics of setting your location to a city you haven’t moved to yet
* (16:38) Multiple shots on goal: position for the dream role, test, iterate, then pivot
* (19:58) Why a mixed bag of parallel interviews muddies your narrative
* (23:08) The first two minutes, and what separates a crafted pitch from a life story
* (27:37) The live search setup: a head of product role at an AI-native pharma startup
* (34:36) How Chris sources: Claude for research, then his own agents to score profiles
* (38:04) The five rubric dimensions his agents grade every profile against
* (41:38) Director versus principal IC, and why four years as a director reads as too removed
* (44:46) Why he almost never looks at resumes
* (49:14) The review begins: Chris walks through Ben’s profile and explains his pass
* (58:14) Marc’s turn, and the sub-one-year stint that gets skipped over
* (1:05:30) Where Marc and Ben would actually be strong candidates
* (1:06:41) Practical fixes: meaty bullets, real metrics, and narrative over recap
* (1:11:35) Gratitude Corner: Chris thanks Colin Smith, Charlie Ruiz, and Marc
* And more!
Links:
* Product Scout: https://product-scout.com/
* Charlie Ruiz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-ruiz/
* Colin Smith: https://www.linkedin.com/in/execnow/
* Chris Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thechrislee/
* Marc: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcbaselga/
* Ben: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benerez/
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