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I’ve made three genuinely bad hires. Not “didn’t work out” bad — properly bad. The kind where you spend 3 months managing a situation that should never have existed. Each one was different. Each one was avoidable. And looking back, each one had red flags I either didn’t see or chose to ignore. Here’s what … Read more
My first remote hire almost quit in week 2. Not because the role was wrong. Not because the pay was wrong. Because I had no onboarding plan. I sent them a laptop, added them to Slack, and pointed them at a Notion doc that hadn’t been updated in 4 months. By day 10 they were … Read more
I used to copy job descriptions from company careers pages I admired. Big mistake. Those companies are optimising for volume — thousands of applicants, large HR teams to filter them, and the luxury of time. You have none of those things. When you write a job post like a Fortune 500, you get Fortune 500 … Read more
For eight months, I couldn’t find good people. I was running an HR SaaS startup — which, yes, is deeply embarrassing given what we do. We help companies hire smarter. And there I was, drowning in mediocre applicants, ghosting candidates by accident, and spending Sunday evenings rewriting the same job description for the fourth time. … Read more