Insights

Field notes on hiring, leadership and the market.

Written by the same people who run our searches. No fluff, no thought-leadership bingo.

Why every shortlist should come with reasons

The most expensive thing in hiring isn't the fee — it's the interview time you spend on the wrong people.

Reply rates in Indian tech are collapsing not because the market is bad, but because outreach has become indistinguishable from noise.

Signals to add, rituals to remove, and how to keep panels calibrated as you scale.

Panellists write independent reads before the debrief, or the debrief becomes a popularity contest. Here's the protocol we use.

A practical framework for offer strategy when the candidate has three competing options.

The onboarding you design tells the candidate more about your company than the interview did. Most companies waste this signal.

It isn't the sourcer. Here's the profile that unlocks the next 30 hires.

Field notes on the India talent market, sent when we actually have something to say.