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Recruitment Plan Template: One Page Tied to Budget and Runway

Recruitment Plan Template: One Page Tied to Budget and Runway

A free recruitment plan template for founders and small teams: one row per role, a budget per role, a runway check and a worked example to copy.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/10/03

Contingency Recruiting: How the Fee Works, in Real Numbers

Contingency Recruiting: How the Fee Works, in Real Numbers

Contingency recruiting means you pay an agency only if you hire its candidate. See reported fee ranges, the math on a real salary, and when retained fits.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/10/03

What Is a Talent Pipeline? How to Build One for Each Role

What Is a Talent Pipeline? How to Build One for Each Role

The people who could fill a role, tracked by stage. How to build a talent pipeline for each role, with an example, stage counts and a sheet to copy.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/10/03

HR Manager Interview Questions: 15 to Ask and What to Listen For

HR Manager Interview Questions: 15 to Ask and What to Listen For

15 HR manager interview questions by stage, with what a strong answer shows, the warning sign to listen for, and a 1–4 scale to score each answer.

avatar for Nicholas YanBy Nicholas Yan · 2026/09/30

Software Engineer Interview Questions and What to Listen For

Software Engineer Interview Questions and What to Listen For

15 software engineer interview questions by stage for hiring teams, with what a strong answer shows, the warning sign, and a 1–4 scale to score answers.

avatar for Nicholas YanBy Nicholas Yan · 2026/09/30

How to Pause and Restart a Search

How to Pause and Restart a Search

A practical runbook for pausing, merging or restarting a hiring search with a preserved record, evidence review and named owners.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/30

How to Define Time-to-Fill Consistently

How to Define Time-to-Fill Consistently

Define time-to-fill with explicit start and end events, pause rules, mature cohorts, denominators, source controls and decision gates.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/30

How to Choose Interview Stages for a Startup

How to Choose Interview Stages for a Startup

A practical runbook for choosing startup interview stages, assigning owners, testing evidence and fixing unnecessary steps in a distributed team.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/30

How to Budget Founder Interview Time

How to Budget Founder Interview Time

A practical way to budget founder interview time for one role, with capacity inputs, delegation rules and stop conditions.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/30

High-Volume Hiring Intake Design

High-Volume Hiring Intake Design

Design a high-volume hiring intake with role segmentation, evidence gates, capacity assumptions, candidate experience controls, owners and stop conditions.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/30

Candidate Experience Survey Template: 30 Questions to Copy, by Stage

Candidate Experience Survey Template: 30 Questions to Copy, by Stage

A copy-ready candidate experience survey template: 10 core questions, 20 more by hiring stage, how to score candidate NPS and when to send it.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/30

8 Juicebox Alternatives in 2026, Including Tools Built for Asia

8 Juicebox Alternatives in 2026, Including Tools Built for Asia

Eight Juicebox alternatives compared on published price, free way in, and what each vendor states about Asia — plus where a Juicebox seat still wins.

avatar for Kevin WongBy Kevin Wong · 2026/09/29

Hiring Process for a Distributed Founding Team

Hiring Process for a Distributed Founding Team

Troubleshoot a distributed founding team's hiring process with explicit hand-offs, async review checks, evidence records and restart conditions.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/29

Hiring Operations Calendar for a Small Team

Hiring Operations Calendar for a Small Team

Build a copyable hiring operations calendar for a two-person team, with weekly ownership, review gates, hand-offs and stop conditions.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/29

Hiring a Second Employee After Product-Market Fit

Hiring a Second Employee After Product-Market Fit

A practical post-product-market-fit runbook for hiring a second employee, with role scope, ownership, evidence and hand-off checks.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/29

Headcount Plan Change Log

Headcount Plan Change Log

Use a headcount plan change log to record demand changes, assumptions, approvals, owners, evidence and the next corrective action.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/29

Founder Guide to Intake Questionnaires

Founder Guide to Intake Questionnaires

Use a copyable founder intake questionnaire to expose missing hiring inputs, assign owners and set stop conditions before sourcing one role.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/29

Fairness Review for Job Descriptions

Fairness Review for Job Descriptions

Review a job description for job-related language, access, proxy risk, evidence and accountable human decisions before sourcing starts.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/28

Explaining AI Recommendations to Candidates

Explaining AI Recommendations to Candidates

A privacy review guide for explaining AI recommendations plainly, protecting confidential details and keeping human review accountable.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/28

Designing an anonymised recruiting study

Designing an anonymised recruiting study

Design an anonymised recruiting study with a clear question, data-minimisation plan, re-identification review, denominators, access controls and stop rules.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/28

Designing a Lightweight Applicant Funnel

Designing a Lightweight Applicant Funnel

A practical applicant-funnel runbook for busy startup hiring managers, with simple stages, review questions, owners and stop conditions.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/28

DEI Metrics Without Demographic Overreach

DEI Metrics Without Demographic Overreach

A small-team guide to defining DEI metrics, protecting demographic data, testing uncertainty and making human-owned corrective decisions.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/28

Defining a Recruiting Funnel Denominator

Defining a Recruiting Funnel Denominator

Define a recruiting funnel denominator with explicit units, cohort rules, exclusions, duplicate handling, missing-data decisions and analyst stop conditions.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/28

Single Sign-On Evaluation for Small Teams

Single Sign-On Evaluation for Small Teams

Evaluate SSO for a small team across protocols, IdP ownership, provisioning, MFA, recovery, audit, privacy, support, cost and rollback before committing.

avatar for Derek ChauBy Derek Chau · 2026/09/25


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