Modeling a hiring funnel with Systems library.
September 18, 2018 After writing the Introduction to systems thinking, I scheduled my yearly trip through the internet looking for easy to use and reasonably priced systems modeling software, and didn't quite find what I wanted, so I wrote something.
Designing interview loops.
September 2, 2018 Anyone who has flipped through Cracking the Coding Interview knows that evaluating folks for a new role is a coarse science. Most interviewers are skeptical of the accuracy of their interviews, and it's hardly the rare interview retrospective where folks aren't sure they got enough signal on a candidate to hire with confidence.
Your hiring funnel.
August 1, 2018 Most companies believe they are constrained by funding, product market fit or hiring. Books have been written about each of those, and this will be a foray into hiring. In particular, it'll be a look at how to use the fundamental hiring diagnostic tool: the hiring funnel.
Consider the team you have for senior positions.
May 19, 2018 I've been hiring engineering manager of managers roles over the past six months. These roles are scarcer than line management roles, and vary more across companies. This process has taught me a bunch of new things, and been remarkably rewarding.
Cold sourcing: hire someone you don't know.
January 8, 2018 Most managers devote their hiring attention to folks that they already have a relationship with, which can lead to uniform teams and becoming a hiring bottleneck as your company scales. This post looks at the process of reaching out to folks you don't know, frequently referred to as cold sourcing.