Think about how much information one hire creates.

Someone comments on a resume. A candidate confirms availability. An interview time changes. A referee says something useful. Somebody moves the candidate from Maybe to Preferred. Another person explains why.

Now ask where all of it lives. In a lot of hiring processes, the answer is everywhere.

Where one hire ends up
  • Email
  • Spreadsheets
  • Calendar invites
  • Calls nobody wrote down

Some is in email. Some is in a spreadsheet. Some is in a calendar invitation. Some is in a message thread. Some was said on a call and never written down.

The obvious problem is efficiency. The less obvious one is memory. Six months later, who got the job is clear. How the panel got there often isn't.

Now ask where all of it lives. In a lot of hiring processes, the answer is everywhere.

It's one of the problems we kept coming back to when building Hirello. Candidate messages, notes, assessment, scheduling, references and panel input shouldn't turn into separate little systems. They're all part of the same hire.

That doesn't mean every conversation needs paperwork. It means the important decisions need a home.

Recruitment finishes. The record of how the decision was made shouldn't disappear with it.