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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.
Episodes
71 episodes
It's Just Robots Hanging Out: What's Actually Happening in Hiring Right Now (S2E18)
Description: Julia Arpag is the founder and CEO of Aligned Recruitment, where she helps high-growth tech companies build exceptional teams. With over a decade of global recruiting experience, she's known for her people-first approach and...
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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: Jeff Waldman on Why Most Resumes Say Nothing At All
Resumes are totally out of date — and AI has only made the problem worse. In this episode, Jeff Waldman (ScaleHR) explains why most hiring signals fail, and what to look for instead if you actually want better hires.This week's episode, ...
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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
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 problem it's actually solving...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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22:37
The Real Reason CVs Are Failing: 8 Leaders Talk Volume, Bias, and What Comes Next (S2 Cut)
What happens when you remove CVs from the hiring process? In our season 2 supercut, our leaders debate bias, volume, video, AI, and what truly helps candidates stand out.What You’ll Learn in This EpisodeWhy CVs feel bo...
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Plan Earlier, Hire Smarter - Emergency Hires Can Really Sabotage Great Decisions (S2E11)
Hiring rarely fails because teams don't care-it fails because decisions get rushed. In this episode, Tia Fomenoff (VP of People at PurposeMed) breaks down why reactive hiring, charisma bias, and burnout quietly undermine great teams-and how peo...
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Episode 11
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17:57
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 tools cali...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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17:25
Same Work, Same Pay: Float’s Julia Fulton Talks Pay Transparency and Why Cover Letters Stink (S2E9)
This week Julia Fulton (Float) joins us on Looks Good on Paper to break down why hiring in 2025 has got to shift away from praising perfection, to rewarding potential. From compensation transparency to why she’s never read a cover letter, Julia...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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21:23
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 for presentation confidence. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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17:32
Human-Centric Hiring At Scale - Inside Clio’s Global Talent Expansion (S2E7)
Clio’s hiring engine: real talk with Alyssa-Marie Lefebre (Senior TA Specialist, Clio).How a 1,700-person legaltech scales recruiting without losing the human.In this episode you’ll learn:The difference between cultur...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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21:40
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, and they underestimate how m...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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15:24
Trash the CV: 90 Seconds Beats 10 Years (Miovision) - (S2E5)
What if your best hire lists 4 years on paper, but delivers 8 years of outcomes?Miovision’s Global Talent Acquisition Manager Justin Krulicki, breaks down why tenure and industry bias are quietly derailing your hiring proce...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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13:45
Stop Hiring Your Mirror: Culture Add vs. Culture Fit
Culture fit is one of the most expensive myths in hiring. When companies screen for fit, they tend to screen for sameness — people who think, communicate, and look like the people already in the room. The result is a team that gets along well a...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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15:28
Why 1,000 Applications Means You're Doing It Wrong - Anuj Rastogi (S2E3)
Anuj Rastogi is a sales and revenue leader turned talent strategist who helps purpose-driven founders and HR leaders scale their teams. As Managing Director at BackStretch, he's seen firsthand how companies unknowingly sabotage their hiring by ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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18:01
What Really Drives Great Hires? - Daneal Charney (S2E2)
Daneal Charney is a fractional HR executive and leadership coach who has seen hundreds of tech companies navigate their hiring challenges. After 10 years in the Toronto tech ecosystem, including her role as Executive in Residence at MaRS, she n...
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Episode 2
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9 Leaders, 1 Question, Hidden Hiring Truths: Tech for Canada Conference + Season 2 Preview
What happens when 9 of Canada’s top hiring leaders get brutally honest about bias? During Tech for Canada Conference, we captured raw, unfiltered insights from executives at Microsoft, Deloitte, True Search, and more. From “pedigree bias” to co...
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Season 2
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Experience Doesn't Always Equal Competence - David Hiford (Episode 8)
David Hiford, Lead Talent Acquisition at Hitachi Rail, challenges the dangerous assumption that experience always equals competence. With nearly four years in recruitment across New Zealand and the UK, David has witnessed firsthand how companie...
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Episode 8
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Stop Hiring People You Want to Drink With - Derek Polowyj (Episode 7)
Derek Polowyj from Eden Scott brings a unique perspective to hiring, having studied recruitment as part of his graduate apprenticeship while working full-time in deep technology recruitment. His academic approach combined with real-world experi...
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Episode 7
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LinkedIn is the Tinder of Recruiting - Joshua Sklüt (Episode 6)
Joshua Sklüt, Chief People Officer and co-founder of MyStandard, joins us to discuss how traditional hiring methods are fundamentally broken. As the creator of the first employment and talent acquisition service built on Web3 technology, Josh a...
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Episode 6
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The 70K to 500K Talent Secret - Adam Gellert (Episode 5)
Adam Gellert, founder of Linkus Group and the talent marketplace Hipo (previously HiredHippo), joins us to share insights from his two decades in the recruiting space. With a mission to build the greatest marketplace of pre-vetted diverse, high...
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Episode 5
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The Job Ad Is Dead (And You Know It) - Christine Spagnuolo (Episode 4)
In this provocative episode of 'Looks Good on Paper,' hosts Woody and Anita explore the demise of the traditional job advertisement with Christine Spagnuolo, founder of The Sorelle Group and a veteran headhunter with 18 years of experience. Chr...
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Episode 4
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Challenging Hiring Norms: Beyond What Looks Good on Paper - Martin Hauck (Episode 3)
We sit down with Martin Hauck, a fractional HR consultant at the Purple Umbrella and the founder of the People People Group, a community of 5,000+ HR, recruitment, and operations professiona...
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Episode 3
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