First clarify what matters. Then act.
The expensive mishires begin long before the candidate. They begin in the silence where no one says out loud what the role really has to carry. We work against the reflex to fill that silence with motion.
What we work against
The open role counts as the starting gun. The job ad is the first move, speed becomes a virtue, time-to-hire the metric everything hangs on. What is visible gets optimised. The question that decides the next two years stays unasked, because it is invisible and costs time.
Clarity before motion.
Before we search, we clarify what the position has to withstand. Three in four placements that start without that clarity end in a "good enough". That is where we begin.
Market picture of unsharpened briefings: 75 %The invisible first.
The risk in a role sits in what no one has named: the silent stakeholder, the contradictory mandate, the expectation behind the expectation. We make it visible before it gets expensive.
First the picture, then the search.
A position first takes shape as a clear picture in front of everyone involved. This principle is called Pre-Recruiting. The method behind it, HIHB, leads in two hours to a role definition that withstands questions from management and division heads.
Discipline beats the lucky one-off.
A good hire must not be luck. What won the Experteer award in 2017 as the Recruiting Canvas is today a repeatable path, proven across more than 200 mandates.
Experteer award 2017 · 200+ mandatesHR shapes.
HR carries a company's People Operating System. Processes, tools and AI take the routine, so there is room for the real work: shaping the organisation before the gap appears.
Take the load off, so shaping becomes possible.
Where day-to-day work eats the shaping, we take over for a time. An interim mandate takes pressure off the team until the structure holds.
That is the stance behind every mandate: first the picture, then the search. When your next key position matters, we start at the beginning.
Michael von Hirschfeld, Pre-Recruiting pioneer and creator of the HIHB method.