Recruitment & Hiring
Structured hiring, sourcing, interviewing, scorecards, offers, and how to avoid bad hires.
For: Founders, hiring managers, recruiters
Structured Hiring: A Framework That Works
The minimum operating system for fair, fast, and predictive hiring at any company size.
Interview Scorecards: Writing Them Well
A scorecard turns 'I liked them' into 'they demonstrated X'. Here's how to write one that calibrates a whole loop, reduces bias, and survives legal scrutiny.
Sourcing Fundamentals
How to build a multi-channel pipeline that doesn't depend on one job board, how to write outreach that gets replies, and how to measure source quality honestly.
Candidate experience as a funnel metric, not a vibe
Why CX is now measurable, what the CandE benchmark actually says, and the five drop-off points where 80% of damage gets done.
Hiring rubrics and the bias controls that actually work
Translating research on interview bias into a working rubric system — what to score, what to ignore, and how to calibrate scorers.
Internal mobility and talent marketplaces — the cheapest hiring channel you're underusing
Why internal hires outperform external hires statistically, the org-design changes that enable mobility, and the failure modes of the marketplace era.
Executive search firms — when to use one, which kind, and how to actually run them
Retained vs. contingent vs. embedded RPO, the right fee structures, and the in-house mistakes that make external searches drag for 9 months.
Broken HR advice #3: 'Hire slow, fire fast'
Half right. The data says fire fast is sound, hire slow is selective survivorship bias from companies that could afford it.
Broken HR advice #4: 'Always hire for culture fit'
What started as a useful idea became cover for unstructured bias. The repaired version is 'values alignment + skill diversity.'
Broken HR advice #6: 'Only hire 10x rockstars'
The 10x engineer is real and the 10x hiring strategy is broken. Why elite-only orgs underperform balanced ones.
Recruitment 101: hiring your first person without making it weird
If you've never hired before, the steps look obvious until you're in them. Here's the friendly walkthrough — write the role, find candidates, run a fair…
Selection science — Schmidt & Hunter's 100-year meta-analysis, updated
The single most cited paper in I/O psychology — Schmidt & Hunter's 1998 meta-analysis ranked every predictor of job performance.