Writing
Notes on hiring people well.
Structured hiring, technical screening, candidate experience, and running an agency on this stuff. No thought leadership, no listicles.
Candidate experience
The calendar tax on hiring
Between application and offer, most of the elapsed time is not decision-making. It is waiting for four calendars to agree — and it is where good candidates are lost.
28 May 2026 · 2 min read
Candidate experience
Candidate experience is a conversion funnel, so measure it like one
Teams track time-to-hire and cost-per-hire and almost never track where candidates drop out. That is the number that tells you what your process is costing you.
14 May 2026 · 2 min
Technical screening
Take-home tests are a tax, and the people who can pay it are not the best engineers
A six-hour unpaid task does not select for skill. It selects for free time — which means it quietly filters out parents, carers and anyone already employed.
25 Jun 2026 · 3 min
Structured hiring
Scorecards that survive a debrief
Most scorecards collapse the moment four people sit in a room. The ones that hold up share three properties, and none of them is being more detailed.
18 Jun 2026 · 2 min
Structured hiring
Structured interviews beat gut feel, and it is not close
The research has been settled for forty years. Structured interviews roughly double the predictive power of unstructured ones — and most teams still run unstructured ones.
11 Jun 2026 · 4 min
Structured hiring
What end-to-end recruitment actually means
End-to-end recruitment covers everything from the approved requisition to the signed offer and the first day. Here is what each stage owns, and where the handoffs usually break.
30 Jul 2026 · 3 min
Candidate experience
Which AI is best for interview preparation?
An honest comparison of general assistants, dedicated mock interview tools and the free options, including where a general chatbot beats anything purpose-built.
30 Jul 2026 · 5 min
Agency playbook
Integrating with your ATS without a migration
A worked example of running Recruit360 alongside an existing applicant tracking system — candidates in by API, scored reports back by webhook, nothing ripped out.
16 Jul 2026 · 2 min
Agency playbook
White-labelling — what clients actually notice, and what nobody looks at
Agencies over-invest in the parts of white-labelling clients never see, and under-invest in the two that decide whether you look like a real firm or a reseller.
9 Jul 2026 · 3 min
Technical screening
What a coding test actually measures
Most technical screens measure recall, nerves and free time. A short list of what you can genuinely learn from watching someone write code for forty minutes.
2 Jul 2026 · 2 min
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