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Hiring Strategy
The True Cost of a Bad Hire: A Framework for Hiring ROI
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Retention
Why Your Best People Quit: Information Asymmetry in Retention
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Interviews
The Economics of Employee Turnover: What CFOs Get Wrong
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The Hiring Economics Series
The True Cost of a Bad Hire: A Framework for Hiring ROI
The accounting is worse than incomplete. It’s dangerously misleading.
The Screening Bottleneck: Why More Applications Mean Worse Hires
Your open position just received its 500th application. Congratulations. You now have a problem that looks like success but performs like failure.
Signaling Theory in Hiring: What Candidates Really Tell You
Your hiring managers believe they’re evaluating competence. They’re not.
Information Asymmetry in Interviews: Why Candidates Know More Than You Do
Your interview process reveals what candidates want you to know. The real question is: what are you doing to learn what they don't?
The Retention Playbook
The December Hiring Paradox: Why Q4 Job Postings Surge Despite Conventional Wisdom
Companies aren’t freezing recruitment; they’re recalibrating it.
The Promotion Cycle: Understanding Corporate Budget Timing for Career Leverage
The train runs on a schedule.
Industry Rotation Strategies: Reading Economic Indicators for Career Moves
Your industry’s health matters more than your individual performance.
The ATS Arms Race: How AI Resume Screening is Reshaping Candidate Strategies
The game changed and most job seekers missed the announcement.
Compensation Strategy Guide
The December Hiring Paradox: Why Q4 Job Postings Surge Despite Conventional Wisdom
Companies aren’t freezing recruitment; they’re recalibrating it.
The Promotion Cycle: Understanding Corporate Budget Timing for Career Leverage
The train runs on a schedule.
Industry Rotation Strategies: Reading Economic Indicators for Career Moves
Your industry’s health matters more than your individual performance.
The ATS Arms Race: How AI Resume Screening is Reshaping Candidate Strategies
The game changed and most job seekers missed the announcement.
Leadership Frameworks
The December Hiring Paradox: Why Q4 Job Postings Surge Despite Conventional Wisdom
Companies aren’t freezing recruitment; they’re recalibrating it.
The Promotion Cycle: Understanding Corporate Budget Timing for Career Leverage
The train runs on a schedule.
Industry Rotation Strategies: Reading Economic Indicators for Career Moves
Your industry’s health matters more than your individual performance.
The ATS Arms Race: How AI Resume Screening is Reshaping Candidate Strategies
The game changed and most job seekers missed the announcement.
Remote Work Economics
The December Hiring Paradox: Why Q4 Job Postings Surge Despite Conventional Wisdom
Companies aren’t freezing recruitment; they’re recalibrating it.
The Promotion Cycle: Understanding Corporate Budget Timing for Career Leverage
The train runs on a schedule.
Industry Rotation Strategies: Reading Economic Indicators for Career Moves
Your industry’s health matters more than your individual performance.
The ATS Arms Race: How AI Resume Screening is Reshaping Candidate Strategies
The game changed and most job seekers missed the announcement.
Organizational Design Principles
The December Hiring Paradox: Why Q4 Job Postings Surge Despite Conventional Wisdom
Companies aren’t freezing recruitment; they’re recalibrating it.
The Promotion Cycle: Understanding Corporate Budget Timing for Career Leverage
The train runs on a schedule.
Industry Rotation Strategies: Reading Economic Indicators for Career Moves
Your industry’s health matters more than your individual performance.
The ATS Arms Race: How AI Resume Screening is Reshaping Candidate Strategies
The game changed and most job seekers missed the announcement.
The Economics of Lowball Offers: Why Saving 10% Costs You 100%
Here's why the math works against you, and when (rarely) it doesn't.
Speed vs. Quality: The Hidden Costs of Fast Hiring
Time-to-fill matters, but time-to-productivity matters more. Cost-per-hire matters, but quality-of-hire matters more. Vacancy costs are real, but mediocrity costs are larger.
Information Asymmetry in Interviews: Why Candidates Know More Than You Do
Your interview process reveals what candidates want you to know. The real question is: what are you doing to learn what they don't?
Signaling Theory in Hiring: What Candidates Really Tell You (And What You Miss)
Your hiring managers believe they're evaluating competence. They're not.
The Screening Bottleneck: Why More Applications Mean Worse Hires
Your open position just received its 500th application. Congratulations. You now have a problem that looks like success but performs like failure.
The True Cost of a Bad Hire: A Framework for Hiring ROI
This accounting is worse than incomplete. It's dangerously misleading. And once you understand the mathematics of hiring failure, you can't look at your hiring process the same way again.