Hiring insights.
Perspectives on hiring, talent, and what it takes to land the people who change a company's trajectory. By Alon Gildoni.
I Am Not From HR. Your Shortlist Should Care.
Most search firms are run by people who spent their careers watching hiring from the side. The best candidates often fail exactly there.
Read →Plan a Hire Backwards, From Their First Good Day
Founders ask how long a search takes. The better question is when you need the person up and running, and what they need from you when they get there.
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The Risk in a Scattered Job Search Is Not Being Rejected. It Is Getting Through.
Every open role now draws hundreds of applications, sometimes thousands, and the instinct is to apply more, and wider. That is exactly the mistake. Three questions most people answer in the wrong order, and what happens when you start with the last one.
Read →Claude Code: A Disaster or an Opportunity?
AI coding assistants are changing what it means to be a software engineer. For companies hiring technical talent, the implications are significant - and mostly misunderstood.
Read →The Cybersecurity Talent Gap: Why Traditional Recruitment Fails
The shortage of qualified cybersecurity professionals is well-documented. Less understood is why conventional recruitment approaches make it worse - and what actually works.
Read →Israel's Tech Diaspora: Europe's Best-Kept Hiring Secret
European companies are overlooking one of the world's most elite talent pools sitting right in their midst. Here's why that needs to change.
Read →What Great Recruiters Do Differently
There is a large difference between a recruiter who fills roles and one who solves problems. Here is what separates them.
Read →I don't want to embarrass him, but credit where it's due. Alon offers a mentoring and guidance program for finding work in the Dutch market, which we all know is tough right now. Personally I started the process long before we moved here (almost a year before, I think), mainly to…
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