The Structured Hiring Method

As your business grows, if hiring isn’t codified, culture and standards start to drift, like a teenager’s attention in class. HireSchool exists to prevent that.

It provides a self-guided digital program that guides you to define a sound hiring system: interview flow, the capabilities to be tested, how candidates are assessed, and how decisions are reached. Not left to habit or personal preference.

The result is a hiring approach that stays consistent over time, and reflects the organization you mean to build, rather than the one that forms like primordial gloop.

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Consultancy Quality Without Consultancy Fees

Most spending on hiring “transformation” is just paying consultants to reinvent the wheel.

HireSchool won’t suffer that foolishness! Sound hiring practices are not bespoke. They are largely universal, and we’re here to set them out clearly and accessibly, without making an entire Sunday roast dinner about it.

HireSchool provides a self-guided digital program, supported by video content and AI tools, that makes established hiring standards available without the cost or smoke and mirrors of large consultancy engagements. The expertise isn’t new. It’s just no longer priced as if it were. In fact up to -90%!

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Bring Your Whole Team Onboard

Everything is set out in clear, practical videos and supporting tools. All, so uniform hiring standards can become shared across the organization, like a box of glazed ring doughnuts.

You don’t need to be a global brand to hire well. You just need a common understanding of what good looks like, and the discipline to apply it consistently.

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The complete transformation program to revolutionize your hiring and accelerate your business growth with ...

A defined and consistent interview process — FIRST PAST THE POST
Detailed mechanisms and systems requirements
A common set of Values to interview against
Codified behavioral criteria
Advanced interview skills training
Proven performance assessment method

Our Structured Hiring Method program is based on the hiring techniques used by the planet's most successful companies

Customised for success in any business!

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The Structured Hiring Method Program

Leadership Values

You choose from a set of predefined Leadership Values that outline the core behaviors you desire in your employees.

Evidence Based Decisions

Methods and training to ensure decisions are made without bias, using defensible evidence.

Codified Performance Assessment

Analysis criteria and methodology to ensure consistent assessment of candidate's evidence.

Role Hiring Process Flow

Tools, guidance and best practice to standardize your process, to achieve consistency across teams and levels.

Hiring Manager Blueprint

Structure for Hiring Managers to plan their interviews and work with colleges to ensure they get the evidence they need.

Decision Management

Codified process and training on how to reach a well considered, evidence based, non bias decision.

The First Past The Post Principle

HireSchool’s programs are built around the First Past the Post principle.

It’s a simple hiring standard. The aim is not to search endlessly for the best person who happens to apply. It is to define, in advance, the highest acceptable standard for the role, and to hire the first candidate who meets it.

That may feel unfamiliar if you’re used to keeping options open “just in case”. But let’s be honest, “keeping options open” is usually just indecision with good PR.

No moving goalposts. No waiting, indeterminably, for someone better to appear. No finding strong candidates quietly moving on, while decisions drift.

The standard is set. The decision follows.

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Behavioral Interviewing Technique

Our programs teach the "Behavioral" interview technique.

This technique was developed by industrial psychologists, based on the principle that the best indicator of future behavior, is past behavior in a similar situation. A bit like if your dog chased a cat in the garden, they’re likely to chase a cat on the street.

Instead of hypothetical questions, it focuses on asking candidates questions about times they've experiences similar situations, to the ones you expect them to face in your role.

By asking a number of questions based on similar scenarios, patterns of behavior surface, that you assume will continue.

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Quality Assurance Option

Some of the world's top companies, such as Google and Amazon, use an extra bit of friction in their hiring processes.

They use a form of quality assurance to bring an independent perspective to candidate assessment.

These "independents" aren't in the direct team, and because they don't have any skin in the game, aren't influenced by any bias or urgency.

Cut them in half, and you'll find the company's requirements, and they ensure only candidates who meet or exceed those standards are hired.

HireSchool offers a program that includes training and guidance on how to set up such a function.

The additional resource requirements mean it's not right for all businesses. But if your business can support it, you'll be the Olympic Gold winners of hiring (if hiring were an Olympic sport).

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Hiring Mistakes You'll Remove

Inconsistent Standards

Every interviewer will have the same understanding of what the expected standard is to hire someone.

Irregular Hiring Processes

You'll have a full approved and standardized hiring process flow. Every Candidate and Hiring Manager will understand exactly what steps are required. Plus, all Candidates for a role will have the same opportunities to impress.

Variable Interview Skills And Strategies

All interviewers will be qualified to interview to the highest standards. They will share a common philosophy for hiring that guides the strategy for approaching interviews.

Bias In Hiring

Interviewers will understand the pitfalls of bias. They'll know what to look out for in themselves and in others to avoid personal bias creeping in.

Subjective Views On Priority Qualities

You'll define exactly what qualities your business wants in its hires. Everyone in the company will know and understand how to identify those qualities in candidates.

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Who You'll Need For Your Transformation

Sponsor

A senior leader in your organization to be the to approve recommendations and champion the change.

Project/Prog Manager

A single point of contact to lead your transformation project.

Project Team

HR, IT, Legal, Marketing etc. The employees you'll need to build the systems and processes to take your transformation live.

Planning Team

Your SMEs who will recommend the strategy for Leadership Values and Hiring Processes.

Hiring Managers/Interviewers

Everyone who is part of your Hiring Process, needs to be part of this change.

HireSchool

Here to share proven methods and processes. Guide you through a transformation process usually reserved for corporate giants.

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