Recruitment & Hiring

Resources to Reimagine Recruitment, Hiring, and Onboarding.

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Next-Rev Hiring

A course that explores how to revolutionize recruitment and hiring by centering equity, inclusion, and candidate care. This online course will help you rethink traditional hiring processes and embrace authenticity and intentionality. Design a values-based approach to this work that supports growth, innovation, and a true sense of belonging for everyone.

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Inclusive Sourcing: Effective Strategies and Innovative Approaches

Finding great candidates can be a fun adventure filled with opportunities to explore and test new ideas, deepen community connections, learn, and iterate. It can also be a nail bitingly stressful and anxious time. Over the years, my colleague Katrina Donald and I have discovered some great approaches to this aspect of search that we're excited to share.

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How to Hire: A Primer

Identifying and hiring the best people for your team is crucial to creating and maintaining high-performing organizations. The right hire can contribute exponentially. The wrong hire can leave everyone demoralized and banging their heads against the wall. This primer will help you think through what you can do to increase the chances of success.

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The Behavior Dashboard: An Interview with its Designers

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Responding to Inappropriate Interview Questions

What questions are inappropriate to be asked during a job interview? How should you respond, especially if you really need the job?

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Nix the Education/Experience Proxy

Unless you’re hiring for a brain surgeon or a rocket scientist, you can probably nix the “[Fill in the blank] degree required” from your job postings. By including it, you’re unhelpfully limiting your candidate pool and excluding otherwise stellar candidates.

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Inclusive Hiring Practices (EP.45)

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Values-Based Hiring: Re-Imagining the Search Process (EP.58)

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Foundations for Success: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Your Company's Core Curriculum

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Role Clarity Blueprint: Developing a Consistent Structure for Outlining Roles

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Art of Authentic Job Searches: Empathy Mapping & Advanced Sourcing Strategies

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Creating Social Sharing Kits

Approaching hiring as a marketing campaign. Check out a real live social sharing kit created to help engage communities as part of an executive search.

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A Strategic Hiring Adventure

Over the years at Fractured Atlas, we’ve invested a great deal of time, effort, and research into improving and honing our hiring process. In this episode of How We Work — created primarily for those staff members involved in our hiring process — we delve into the history, our philosophy, and the stages of the interview process.