Starting From the Job, Not From the Catalogue
Design sequence that produces a process fitting the role, rather than a role fitted to the tools you bought.
Designing a process
Each requirement assigned to exactly one method that can assess it. Anything unassigned comes out.
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Designing a Work Sample That Fits
Turning a real task into an assessment: what to keep, what to strip, and how to keep it short enough that people will do it.
Writing Structured Interview Questions
Turning job requirements into questions that produce evidence rather than rehearsed answers.
Scoring Rubrics That Interviewers Can Apply
The document that turns judgement into assessment. What makes one usable, and the common forms that are not.
How Long an Assessment Should Take
Every hour you add costs candidates, costs assessors, and adds less information than the last. Where the line actually sits.
Take-Home Tasks and Unpaid Labour
Where an assessment becomes free work, why it matters beyond fairness, and how to stay on the right side of it.
Sequencing: What to Assess and When
The order of stages determines who survives your process. Cheap filters early, but not the ones most organisations use.
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