How to Hire

Hiring is a discipline with an order to it. Six decisions, each one upstream of the next, and every one of them the leader's to make before a candidate is in the building.

Articles
6
In order
Responsibility to price
End to end
About 2 hours

Read straight through and you have the whole discipline. Read one and you have that stage settled. Each is written to stand alone, and the order is the order the work actually happens in.

  1. 01 Antique engraving illustration. An open canvas expedition pack on a workbench with brass surveying instruments spilling out of it. How to Think About Hiring Responsibility Who owns the outcome, why fit cannot be predicted, and how a risk gets priced instead of hoped away. 25 min · Jul 2026
  2. 02 Antique engraving illustration. A blank sheet of drafting vellum clamped to a board with a drafting pen resting across it. How to Write a Job Description The only written agreement about what the job is, built from outcomes rather than activities. 16 min · Jul 2026
  3. 03 Antique engraving illustration. A brass surveyor's theodolite on a wooden tripod beside a plan chest with one drawer pulled open. How to Design an Interview Process Every decision that matters, made before anyone shakes a hand: lanes, interview types, prep, and the record. 22 min · Jul 2026
  4. 04 Antique engraving illustration. A geologist's core sample split open on a stone bench next to dividers and a hand lens. How to Interview What each artifact tells you and how each one lies, in the order that makes them sharpen each other. 24 min · Jul 2026
  5. 05 Antique engraving illustration. Blank folded letters fanned across a desk beside a brass letter balance and its weights. How to Make a Hiring Decision How five independent judgments survive a debrief, and what to confirm before an offer goes out. 18 min · Jul 2026
  6. 06 Antique engraving illustration. An antique brass balance scale on a stone plinth with a plumb bob in one pan and the other pan empty. How to Set Compensation Pay built from the inside out: mission first, then a few measured outcomes, then the market as a check. 18 min · Jul 2026