What a hiring process can actually prove.
Essays on what a hiring process can actually prove, written from the position that most of it proves less than we assume. Nothing here is about gaming a funnel or predicting the market. It is about the parts of hiring that hold up when someone asks you to defend a decision.
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01 NOV 2026
Should candidates be allowed to use AI in an interview?
Banning the assistant tests a skill nobody uses at work. Allowing it untracked tests nothing at all. The useful position is somewhere in the middle.
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27 OCT 2026
How to run a technical screen a non-engineer can defend
Most small teams have no recruiting function, and the person who says yes or no often has the least technical context in the room. Here is what makes that position defensible.
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20 OCT 2026
Résumés and interviews are mostly theatre
A CV is a claim, an interview is a rehearsal, and the notes afterwards vary with whoever held the pen. What would count as evidence instead.
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