The 4 Horsemen of the Hiring Apocalypse

Hiring can be a hot mess of bust-up traditions, psychometric snake oil, technotopian crypto-babble and downright quackery… but I’m still optimistic about its future. In this post I’ll try and summarise the four main problem areas using a rather pedestrian…

How we write copy for humans

At Applied we believe applying for jobs is miserable enough and that language can help. Copy has been my responsibility so far, but as we grow our team it’s becoming very clear that I’m a huge bottleneck. This is my attempt to shirk… I mean… document my process so that other…

The 3 best ways to assess candidates

Or, how I learned that my gut feeling is sometimes just gas.

Inspired to share by a great post by Jean Hsu and Jeff Lu, here I’ll outline how we decided what kind of hiring pipeline to build, and the 3 assessment techniques we chose to…