Notes on hiring tech, HR strategy, and the future of work.
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Asynchronous interviewing, done right
Async interviewing was sold as the alternative to brutal scheduling cycles. In practice it often makes the experience worse — candidates record into the void, get no feedback, hear nothing for weeks. The good version is harder than the bad version. It is also better.
- ProcessEquity
Skills-based hiring (finally, actually) works
The skills-based-hiring movement spent three years as a deck and a slogan. Then a few large employers actually did it. The retention numbers are in.
Mar 11, 20267 min - RetentionProcess
Internal mobility: the cheapest senior hire you already have
External senior hires fail at the highest rate of any kind of hiring — somewhere between 40 and 60 percent depending on whose data you trust. Internal moves succeed at twice the rate. The math is uncomfortable for retained-search firms but unambiguous for everyone else.
Mar 4, 20266 min
