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KOPS WORKS — SURGICAL FIXES FOR HIRING AND JOB SEARCH

Hiring sucks. On both sides of the table. So I build fixes.

I’m Max — recruiter turned product builder. Kops Works is my one-person laboratory: small products for how people hire and get hired. Built in public, internationally.

Occasional emails about product launches or hiring insights.

Live: 1  ·  Coming soon: 1  ·  In the graveyard: 1

Max Korpinen
Max Korpinen — the Kops in Kops Works

MBA · Recruiter at UiPath · Product Manager at Jobilla · Founder of Hireproof

Recruiters and job seekers are both drowning. Companies get record applicant volumes, candidates get ghosted, unemployment is at record highs, and AI-assisted workflows bring chaos all over. The big hiring platforms care about money, not people. I hate where this is going. Kops Works is my contribution to making recruitment great again.

01 — Recent projects

Statistically Employable

Live

See which tech skills Finnish employers are actually hiring for — city by city, updated weekly.

2025–

Interview Recipes

Coming soon

Build a structured, research-backed job interview in minutes — hire the best candidate, not the best talker.

2026–

See the full project list — every problem I’m working on right now →

02 — Problem backlog

What frustrated you this week?

Every product starts as somebody’s bad week. If hiring or job hunting ground your gears recently, I’d love to know! What you share lands on the public backlog, where people vote on what they’d like to see fixed next.

Browse the backlog & vote →

Submissions are read by a human (me) before they appear.

03 — Who the heck is Kops?

Max Korpinen

I’ve screened thousands of resumes, and built recruitment software for hundreds of recruiters. I’ve gone through hard career changes and experienced the harsh job market. To humbly brag: I’m a better recruiter than 99% of product builders, and a better product builder than 99% of recruiters.

The full story →

04 — Receipts

Don’t just take my word for it

  • Interview design

    While working with Max at FOVE, we collaborated on structuring the interviewing process to guarantee that employees were a better fit for the company — both technically and personally — using evidence-based approaches. Max’ expertise helped filter out unfit candidates, allowing us to spend more time doing in-depth technical interviews with remaining candidates. I would highly recommend Max for anyone looking to apply a modern approach to HR.

    Remco Kuijper

    Rust Tech Lead at Nomic Foundation

  • Recruiting

    In about a week of meeting with Max, he managed to find us a group of stellar candidates for a lead position that we had difficulty filling ourselves. He also supported us during the rest of the recruiting process. As a result, we made a hire that our team is very happy with. We will definitely work with Max again in the future!

    Ville Wikström

    COO at Helppy

  • Hireproof

    Hireproof showed us how all over the place our interview process was and that we need to train our interview skills. We all know that we need Hireproof for our interviews and unbiased processes.

    Carina Wetzlhütter

    Marketing Lead at Selma Finance

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Occasional emails when something new launches, plus the odd note when I get in the mood to philosophize about the future of work. No spam, and you can leave whenever you want.