Notes on hiring, written plainly.
Playbooks you can use this week, research we ran on our own data, and the thinking behind what we build.
How to cut time-to-hire by 60% without adding a single recruiter
Most hiring delays are not decisions, they are waiting. A look at where the days actually go and how to remove them.
Why we built Rafaelo as a layer first, and an ATS second
Asking a team to replace their ATS is asking them to change how they work. We chose the harder path instead.
The scorecard: the smallest change that makes hiring fairer
Structured scoring beats gut feeling in every study we know of. Here is how to introduce it without slowing anyone down.
Calendar ping-pong costs you 11 days. Here is the math.
Scheduling looks like admin. In a hiring process it is the single largest source of delay, and it compounds.
What an agent should never decide on its own
Autonomy is a dial, not a switch. Our framework for deciding which hiring steps need a human.
How Common Pay hired 14 engineers in one quarter
A fintech with 320 people, a backlog of roles and a recruiting team of three. What they changed and what they measured.
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