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The Offer That Does Not Get Countered
Most offers are lost before the number is discussed, in the gap between final interview and paperwork. Five offer approaches reviewed, how to compress
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Recruitment & Hiring
Recruitment & Hiring
Hiring playbooks, frameworks, and best practices.
Rejecting Candidates Without Burning the Pipeline
Rejection touches almost everyone who meets your company and belongs to nobody, so the work slides. Five rejection approaches reviewed, what feedback
The Screening Call That Saves Four Hours
The screen is the cheapest place to end a conversation, which is why most are wasted on rapport and role description.
Where Your Candidates Actually Come From
A channel gets used because it was used last time, and its cost is visible while its yield is not. Six sourcing channels reviewed, how to attribute a hire
Structured Interviews Without the Bureaucracy
Two interviewers asking different questions produce two assessments that cannot be compared. Five interview formats reviewed, the smallest structure still
Take-Home Task, Live Exercise, or Neither
Accuracy against candidate experience is the wrong frame: a bad take-home is both inaccurate and unpleasant. Six assessment formats reviewed, how to scope
Time to Hire Is the Wrong Number
The cheapest way to improve time to hire is to lower the bar, which makes optimising it directly make hiring worse.
Who Should Be in the Room
Panels grow by accretion: someone is added for a reason, the reason passes, nobody removes them. Five panel structures reviewed, how to assign areas so
The Scorecard Managers Will Actually Fill In
A scorecard everyone completes and nobody means is worse than none, because it launders a gut call into evidence.
The Job Description That Gets Applied To
The internal document has to survive a budget sign-off. The advert has to make an employed person spend an evening applying.