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Looks Good on Paper
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 at a time.
Podcasting since 2022 • 71 episodes
Looks Good on Paper
Latest Episodes
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 they're now processing: the signal-to...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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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 teams adding complexity are...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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18:06
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 whether someone can actually do the wo...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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21:01
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 early-stage hiring fails because founders write job desc...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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22:24
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 left.Diversity hiring without a reten...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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19:49
