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🎯 The Test-First Hire: Why a Polished Résumé Tells You Nothing
Most people hire backwards.
They fall in love with a clean résumé and a polite Zoom call, hand over the keys, and then spend the next three months cleaning up the mess.
I get it. You're busy. You want to buy back your time, not run a hiring gauntlet. But a bad hire is one of the most expensive mistakes a small operator can make. You pay for the salary. You pay for the training. You pay for the lost work. And then you pay again with the hours you spend redoing everything yourself.
Here's the uncomfortable part... the résumé is often a lie.
We hire from a global, remote talent pool now, which is great. But it also means candidates have gotten very good at looking good on paper. There's a whole cottage industry of writing services that will polish a résumé, pad a portfolio, and beat the applicant tracking software for them. By the time that PDF hits your inbox, you're not looking at the candidate. You're looking at the candidate's marketing.
So you cannot hire on paper and a friendly call. You have to make people PROVE it before you ever extend an offer.
That's the whole idea behind what I call test-first hiring. You put candidates on a small, real, unglamorous piece of work BEFORE you waste time on a formal interview. The talkers fold. The doers raise their hand. And you find out who's who in an afternoon instead of three months.
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🎯 The Test-First Hire: Why a Polished Résumé Tells You Nothing
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