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Hiring 400 people in six weeks is a throughput problem, not a sourcing problem. Week-by-week structure, the funnel math, and the three things that break first.
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Research
7 min
An export of 214,000 old candidate records is not an asset until it is indexed, verified, and consent-checked. Decay curves, reply rates, and cost per hire from one reactivation program.
Wen Zhao·August 11, 2026
Operations
8 min
Ten thousand applications, 245 starts. A stage-by-stage teardown of a high-volume funnel, the compounding math behind it, and which single stage is worth fixing first.
Ben Kessler·June 23, 2026
Product
10 min
Rubric design, a frozen calibration set, and weekly drift monitoring. The engineering behind Nova Recruiter scores that mean the same thing in March and October.
Sofia Marchetti·June 18, 2026
AI & Ethics
9 min
NYC Local Law 144 and the EU AI Act ask different questions of the same model. A working audit plan for interview scoring: impact ratios, subgroup coverage, drift, and the limits of an audit.
Naomi Feldstein·April 9, 2026
Operations
9 min
Most teams report a single average that hides four separate processes. Here is how to decompose the metric so it tells you where hiring actually stalls.
Dorian Whitfield·April 7, 2026
Hiring Science
8 min
Resumes measure document quality. Structured interviews measure job-relevant behavior. The evidence, the validity ranking that survived reanalysis, and what changes in a real funnel.
Dr. Maren Adeyemi·February 17, 2026
Hiring Science
8 min
Candidates in Bogota and Manila answer WhatsApp in minutes and email in days. Here is the response-rate math behind it, and where the channel breaks.
Lucia Arreguin·February 11, 2026
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