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Hiring on skill — the playbook.

Practical, evidence-based guides on skills-based hiring, reducing bias, and AI interviews.

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AI recruiting software in 2026: a practical buyer's guide

What AI recruiting software actually does, where it helps and where it's hype, the fairness and legal questions to ask every vendor, and a clear framework for choosing the right tool.

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Skills-based hiring

How to write a job description that attracts skilled people (not just credentialed ones)

Most job descriptions screen out great candidates before they apply. Here's how to write one around real tasks and skills — with structure, inclusive language, and a reusable template.

10 min read

Skills-based hiring

Pre-employment assessments: a validity-first guide to testing the right things

How to choose and run pre-employment assessments that genuinely predict performance — work samples, structured tasks and validated tests — without hurting fairness or candidate experience.

12 min read

Reducing bias

Blind hiring: what the evidence says, and how to do it without breaking your process

Blind hiring removes identity signals from early screening. Here's what it fixes (and what it doesn't), the research behind it, where teams get it wrong, and a step-by-step rollout.

11 min read

Reducing bias

Types of hiring bias: 12 patterns and how to design each one out

A field guide to the biases that distort hiring — affinity, halo, confirmation, anchoring, recency and more — with the specific process change that neutralizes each one.

12 min read

Comparisons

The best HireVue alternatives in 2026

Comparing HireVue alternatives for AI interviewing and assessment — what to look for on fairness, candidate experience and price, and where Spoon fits.

6 min read

Reducing bias

Structured interviews: a practical guide

Structured interviews are one of the most predictive, least biased hiring tools. Here's how to design questions, build a scoring rubric, and run them consistently.

6 min read

AI interviews

How AI interviews work — and how to prepare

A clear explainer on AI interviews: what they assess, how scoring works, the fairness and privacy questions to ask, and how candidates can prepare.

7 min read

Reducing bias

How to reduce bias in hiring (that actually works)

A practical, evidence-based guide to reducing bias in hiring: where bias creeps in, the interventions that work (and the ones that don't), and how to measure progress.

8 min read

Skills-based hiring

Skills-based hiring: the complete guide

What skills-based hiring is, why it out-predicts résumés and pedigree, and a practical playbook to adopt it — screening, structured interviews, and fair shortlists.

9 min read

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