culture fitisbullsh!t

What's on offer

Hiring Strategy

Before you spend a penny of runway.

Do you actually need to hire? Who, and why? We work that out first. Then, if it really is a hire, we go and get the right one.

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The problem

Most hires don't fail at the interview. They fail before the job ad.

Copied job spec. No idea what the person has to achieve. A founder who's knackered and wants it off their desk. I know, because I've done it. I burnt nearly £200k on the wrong hires in my first four years. Gut, not evidence.

What we work out

Is it a person, or a problem?

  1. 1

    Do you need to hire at all?

    Often it's a process or a lack of clarity, not a missing person. If it's genuinely capacity, we hire.

  2. 2

    What the business needs to achieve

    Then we reverse engineer what the hire has to do. Two years ahead, not two weeks.

  3. 3

    The real cost

    Salary, pension, NI, kit, licences. Can you carry it if no money comes in for 3 to 6 months?

  4. 4

    A scorecard, not a spec

    Built with the people who'll actually work with the hire. Bin the job spec.

Included: the first 30 days

Change nothing until you've listened.

If you bring me into your business, I sit down one to one with every person. Including the newest starter. Same five questions, every time.

"What's working that we must not break?"

That's one of them. The rest you get in the room. Then we write down the good, the bad and the ugly, prioritise what moves the needle and fix what stops people starting and staying.

When it is a hire

Three candidates. Not thirty.

Senior, specialist hires go through my recruitment consultancy, TechWaves. No CV dumps. No bums on seats. One agency per job.

22%

Flat permanent placement fee. Maximum three candidates per shortlist. Every one of them someone you'd actually want to meet.

18
years in recruitment
83%
of the people I place were not on the market
94%+
of placed candidates still in the role
0
counteroffers accepted in seven years
1
non-starter. Ever.

Interested?

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on LinkedIn.

Tell me what you think you need. I'll tell you honestly whether you do.

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Sharn Lalkiya · Founder, Culture Fit Is Bullsh!t