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Looks Good on Paper
Anita Chauhan
Looks Good on Paper flips hiring on its head. Hosted by Andrew Wood and Anita Chauhan, we dive into why CVs and "perfect fits" are overrated. Through fun, insightful conversations with industry experts, we explore how skills, potential, and real experience should be the focus of hiring... not what looks good on paper. Quick, candid, and packed with actionable insights, we’re here to rewrite the rules of hiring, one episode …
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Looks Good on Paper · Aug 12, 2026
Years of experience is not a skill
Most hiring teams have an audit for bias. They check the language in the job ad, they structure the interview, they train the panel. Almost none of them audit the requirements themselves. Cary Sparrow …
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Looks Good on Paper · Aug 5, 2026
I don't read CVs and I don't hire locally
Most hiring leaders will tell you they hire for skills. Then they open a CV, scan for a university name, check a location field, and quietly filter out everyone who lives more than a …
16:46
Looks Good on Paper · Jul 22, 2026
Make sure they pass the vibe check - Recfest UK 2026
A CV is the one document where people are trusted to describe themselves, and it is also the one place they are most careful to leave things out. Not the boring things. The real …
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Looks Good on Paper · Jul 15, 2026
We show up at work as our full selves. CVs won't let us.
We took a camera around RecFest 2026 and asked one question over and over: what's something about yourself that would never show up on a CV? We got a singer. A horse rider. Someone …
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Looks Good on Paper · Jul 8, 2026
The CV is the global currency for jobs. And it's fundamentally flawed.
There is almost no business process on earth that works the same way in every country. Payroll differs. Contracts differ. Even the working week differs. But post a job anywhere in the world, and …
30:37
Looks Good on Paper · Jun 24, 2026
Athletes try out. Why don't your candidates?
Every athlete who makes a team has to prove they can play. They run drills. They scrimmage. They perform under pressure while someone watches. But in hiring, we skip all of that. We scan …
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Looks Good on Paper · Jun 17, 2026
The 24-Hour Promise
The average time to hire in 2026 is 44 days. Taylor Genre's team at Beemac Logistics gives every sales candidate a final answer within 24 hours. Taylor is the Director of Recruiting and Marketing …
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Looks Good on Paper · Jun 9, 2026
Stop Hiring Three Juniors When You Need One Senior.
Startups love being scrappy. They love the hustle. And they keep making the same mistake with that energy: hiring three or four junior people when they should have hired one senior person. Not because …
18:30
Looks Good on Paper · Jun 3, 2026
Your Best Hire Won't Look Good on Paper
"Culture fit" sounds like a good thing until you look at what it actually filters for. People who look like you. People who sound like you. People who make you comfortable. It's not a …
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Looks Good on Paper · May 20, 2026
Why Shopify Asks Every Candidate to Tell Their Life Story
Hiring managers keep passing on their best candidates because they haven't figured out what great looks like before the first interview starts. The strongest batch comes in early, gets overlooked, and by the time …
20:53
Looks Good on Paper · May 13, 2026
She scaled to 1,500 people and wants to BURN the hiring process down
Half of all hires do not work out. Jenny Do Forno, CPO at TouchBistro, explains why the hiring process is measuring the wrong things and what to do instead. Jenny has spent nearly 25 …
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Looks Good on Paper · May 5, 2026
A Candidate on My Call Was Impersonating a Dead Person
Deepfakes in hiring interviews are real. A recruiter at Xero shares the story of a candidate who impersonated a deceased person on a video call, and explains how his team catches fake profiles, eliminates …
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Looks Good on Paper · Apr 29, 2026
Reward the Skill, Not the Performance
Most hiring decisions get made on a feeling. A hiring manager comes out of an interview, says "I think this one is a better fit," and the team moves forward. Anu Joshi has spent …
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Looks Good on Paper · Apr 21, 2026
"He Interviewed Well. That Was the Problem."
The person who interviews the best is not always the person who performs the best. In fact, sometimes they're the worst hire you'll make. Hamza Khan knows this firsthand. His own company, SkillsCamp, a …
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Looks Good on Paper · Apr 15, 2026
The Skills-Based Economy Arrived Five Years Ago
The skills-based economy arrived five years ago. Hiring still hasn't caught up. Most companies understand the concept of hiring for skills over job titles, but they hit a wall when it comes to translating …
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Looks Good on Paper · Apr 8, 2026
Learning Velocity Is the New Superpower
Companies keep saying they've moved past credential-based hiring. They haven't. Most are still filtering for where someone worked, where they went to school, and how many years they've held a similar title. The data …
18:10
Looks Good on Paper · Apr 2, 2026
The Hiring Bias Nobody Thinks They Have
Most companies believe they've moved past credential bias. They've rewritten their job descriptions, dropped degree requirements, maybe even adopted skills assessments. But when six hiring leaders were asked the same question independently, without hearing …
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Looks Good on Paper · Feb 24, 2026
It's Just Robots Hanging Out: What's Actually Happening in Hiring Right Now
AI is flooding hiring pipelines — and most of the tools claiming to fix it are making the noise worse. Automated outreach, AI-generated applications, and screening tools that were never built for the volume …
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Looks Good on Paper · Feb 18, 2026
Better Hiring Without the Noise: Why Hiring Feels Over-Engineered (and How to Fix It)
Hiring isn't broken. It's over-engineered. Every new tool added to the stack, every extra screening step, every automated touchpoint is making the process heavier — and candidates can feel it. The irony is that …
18:06
Looks Good on Paper · Feb 11, 2026
They Belong in a Museum: Why Most Resumes Say Nothing at All
The resume was already a weak signal before AI. Now candidates generate polished CVs in minutes, ATS systems sort on keywords, and hiring teams are drowning in documents that tell them almost nothing about …
21:01
Looks Good on Paper · Feb 4, 2026
Stop Hiring for Titles: What Startup Hiring Actually Requires
Startups don't need the person with the best title. They need the person who can do the work that exists right now — and probably three other things that don't have titles yet. Most …
22:24
Looks Good on Paper · Jan 28, 2026
Fair, Equitable Hiring Needs a Retention Strategy (S2E14)
Getting diverse candidates in the door is the easy part. Keeping them is where most companies quietly fail — and they usually don't notice until the people they worked hardest to recruit have already …
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Looks Good on Paper · Jan 14, 2026
Why Hiring More People Is the Wrong Fix (And What High-Growth Companies Do Instead) (S2E12)
Headcount is not a growth strategy. But in high-pressure, high-growth environments, adding people feels like the most immediate lever — and it gets pulled too early, too often, and without enough clarity about what …
22:37
Looks Good on Paper · Dec 18, 2025
The Real Reason CVs Are Failing: 8 Leaders on Volume, Bias, and What Comes Next
What actually happens when you take the CV out of hiring? Eight leaders sat down with Looks Good on Paper over the course of Season 2 and didn't hold back. The conversation covered AI-generated …
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Looks Good on Paper · Dec 10, 2025
Plan Earlier, Hire Smarter: Why Emergency Hires Sabotage Great Decisions
Hiring rarely fails because teams don't care. It fails because the decision gets made too fast, under too much pressure, by people who are already stretched thin. Reactive hiring doesn't just produce bad hires …
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Looks Good on Paper · Dec 3, 2025
What 74% of Companies Are Getting Wrong - and Why They Lose Out on Great Talent (S2E10)
Most companies say they're open to global talent. Then they build a hiring process that makes it nearly impossible for global candidates to get through it — timezone-incompatible interview windows, slow communication loops, screening …
17:25
Looks Good on Paper · Nov 25, 2025
Same Work, Same Pay: Why Pay Transparency Changes Everything About Who Gets Hired
Pay transparency isn't just an HR trend. It's a signal about what a company actually believes about fairness, trust, and who gets to negotiate. And most companies — even the ones who claim to …
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Looks Good on Paper · Nov 18, 2025
Don’t Trust the First 10%: Process Is the Problem, Says Ashby’s Jim Miller (S2E8)
The first 10% of most hiring processes produces almost no useful signal about whether a candidate can do the job. Resume screens sort for credentials. Referral filters sort for network proximity. Initial calls sort …
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Looks Good on Paper · Nov 12, 2025
Human-Centric Hiring At Scale - Inside Clio’s Global Talent Expansion (S2E7)
At 1,700 people, Clio is no longer a startup — but it still has to hire like one in the sense that matters most: every candidate interaction either builds or erodes trust in the …
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Looks Good on Paper · Nov 5, 2025
AI Changed What Qualified Means — What Early-Stage Founders Need to Know
Early-stage founders make the same hiring mistakes with striking consistency: they hire for the role they can describe rather than the work they actually need done, they over-index on pedigree because it feels safe, …
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