Hiring and Video Interview Guides
12 guides on screening candidates, running interviews and building a hiring process that holds up — written for teams without a dedicated recruiting function. Grouped by the stage of hiring they belong to.
Screening candidates
Deciding who moves forward — the criteria, the process and the tools that make the decision consistent.
Candidate Screening Best Practices
The six-stage screening process, how the screening methods compare, and nine practices that make the decisions fair and defensible.
How to Screen Candidates Faster
Eight steps that cut hours out of the first round, with time benchmarks for each stage and a screening checklist.
AI Recruiting Tools for Small Business
What AI recruiting tools cost, which have real free plans, and what to look for when the hiring budget is small.
Running the interview
What to ask, how to ask it, and how to set up the software that records the answers.
40 Video Interview Questions to Ask Candidates
Forty questions grouped by what they measure, with notes on which ones work in a one-way interview and which need a live conversation.
Open-Ended Interview Questions
Fifty examples by category, what each one reveals, closed-to-open rewrites, and how to evaluate the answers.
How to Set Up Video Interview Software
From the first job posting to the first reviewed answer: question design, time limits, invitations and completion rates.
Building the hiring process
The stages around screening — where candidates come from, how long the process takes, and why they trust it.
How to Reduce Time to Hire
Seven practical steps, with the stages where days are actually lost and what each one costs you.
How to Hire Your First Employees
A step-by-step guide for the first few hires, when there is no HR team and every hire changes the company.
Social Media Recruiting Tools
Sourcing and employer-brand tools compared channel by channel — LinkedIn, Meta, TikTok, X — with prices and free plans.
Hiring Has a Trust Problem. On Both Sides.
Fraudulent applicants and fake job ads are both common now. Four ways to rebuild trust in the first round.
Internal hiring
Promoting and moving people inside the company, judged on the same evidence as external candidates.
Put any of this into practice this afternoon
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