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.
Looks Good on Paper
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Global hiring is changing faster than most teams can keep up. In this episode, Remote's Senior Director of Onboarding & Business Operations, Noelle Pittock, shares how her team screens 35,000+ applicants a month all while staying human.
On this week’s episode, you'll learn
- Why hiring only within commuting distance quietly kills your talent strategy
- How to turn company values into real behaviors in a fully remote workforce
- What "CV bias" looks like-and how Remote is designing around it
- How agentic and generative AI can open up equity in early-stage screening
- The top skills and trends Remote is watching for HR leaders heading into 2026
👓 About the guest
Noelle Pittock is the Senior Director of Onboarding and Business Operations at Remote, where she leads a global team of 100+ specialists across EMEA and APAC. With a background in B2B and content marketing, she brings a uniquely creative lens to operations, overseeing Remote's employer of record division and helping companies onboard and pay global talent quickly, compliantly, and with a standout service experience.
📌 About Remote
Remote is a global HR company that helps businesses hire, manage, and pay talent anywhere in the world-compliantly and seamlessly. From employer-of-record services to global payroll and benefits, Remote gives teams the infrastructure to scale across borders with confidence.
📄 About Looks Good on Paper / Willo
Looks Good on Paper is your weekly source for hot takes from modern talent leaders, recruiters, and powered by Willo, the async video platform helping teams hire faster-and more thoughtfully - at scale.
⏱ Chapters
00:16 - Welcome to Looks Good on Paper & intro to Noelle
00:25 - What Remote does & Noelle's role leading 100+ global specialists
01:49 - The biggest hiring mistake: only hiring within office radius
02:40 - Flexibility, talent shortages & why local hiring is failing (Remote data)
04:16 - Turning values into real behaviors on global remote teams
05:32 - Remote's public handbook & cultural infrastructure
06:38 - Values that evolve as your company grows
07:19 - Hidden leadership bias: cloning your top performer's CV
08:39 - Why CVs don't predict success & how Remote hires differently
09:43 - "We're already kind of CV-free": 35,000 applications a month
10:39 - Using agentic & generative AI to open up equity in screening
11:43 - Ditching "3-5 years experience" in job descriptions
12:48 - Making hiring criteria more progressive and candidate-friendly
13:30 - Are we missing great people with AI filters?
14:42 - Hiring trends for 2026: generalists, global flexibility & automation
15:52 - Cultural competency as a hiring superpower
16:24 - Final thoughts & closing on the future of work
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🙋🏽♂️ Building global teams or rethinking hiring? We’d love to hear from you — reach out if you want to be on the podcast.
Show Resources
- Willo: willo.video - The most cost-effective way to screen candidates at scale. Interview candidates anywhere & at any time
- CV Free Toolkit: cvfree.me/join - Break up with the CV and get everything you need to modernize your hiring approach with skills-based assessments
- Anita Chauhan: linkedin.com/in/anitachauhan - Connect with the host
