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I'm the interview guy founders call before they hire. Twenty years building companies and hiring people. 12,000+ interviews. 1,200+ hires across Europe, Asia, North America, and the Middle East. Three companies built, two founder exits and two post-merger integrations behind me. The pattern I keep seeing: most bad hires aren't bad people. They're the wrong people. And they're the wrong people because the interview never surfaced what mattered. Most interviews don't. The questions miss what counts. The people in the room aren't trained to read what they're hearing. By the end, the decision comes down to impressions, assumptions, and gut feel, not defensible facts. With AI now in the room on both sides, it's harder than ever to tell what's real. I work with founders, leadership teams, and PE and VC funds to fix this at three levels. ⦿ For the hire you can't afford to get wrong. I run Critical Hire. We define the role together (not the JD, the actual job: success criteria, deal breakers, what good looks like in 3, 6, and 12 months). I interview your finalists myself, in structured 75 to 90 minute sessions. You get a written scorecard within 48 hours on each one. Cold, hard facts. A decision you can defend to yourself, your co-founder, and your board. ⦿ For the team that needs to do this internally. I train managers and leadership teams to interview properly. Over 300 leaders trained in the last two years across founder-led companies, scale-ups, and PE-backed portcos. The Interview Mastery Program is the productised version: cohort-based, on-demand, or run inside your business as a team workshop. ⦿ For the operating system underneath it all. Klareda is the platform I built to make the methodology repeatable: structured interviews, scorecards, decision data your team can defend at the board level. Deployed across single companies and across portfolios. This is not recruiting. Not search. The layer above both, where the decision actually gets made. The work has supported leadership hires, post-merger integrations, leadership team rebuilds, and value-creation programmes for funds across DACH, the UK, the Nordics, the US, and beyond. If you're about to make a hire you can't afford to get wrong, book a 20-minute call. Link in the featured section. For my weekly thinking on hiring, leadership, and decision quality, the newsletter is where it lives. Sign up at newsletter.schoolofhiring.com. It's worth it.
Most hiring tools focus on sourcing. Klareda starts earlier. With role clarity. It helps managers define what they’re hiring for: The mission. The outcomes. The competencies that matter. From there, Klareda generates everything needed to hire well: → Interview questions and follow-ups → Interview flows → Scorecards → Job descriptions and job ads This isn't about adding more steps. It's about helping managers make faster, stronger decisions with fewer interviews and clearer signals. Klareda is role clarity. It’s the first mile of hiring. 👉 klareda.com
No leader makes a hire hoping they get to fire the person. The hardest part is knowing you are making the right decision before the person ever walks through the door. School of Hiring is where founders come to learn how to get that decision right. Built on experience of 12,000+ interviews, 1,200+ hiring decisions and exceptional results across 100+ companies. Every wrong hire costs more than money. It costs momentum, culture and months you will never get back. Most leaders know this. Few know what to do about it before it happens. That is the gap School of Hiring closes. Through the podcast, YouTube channel and newsletter we break down what great people decisions actually look like in practice. The real frameworks, the hard lessons and the honest conversations that help founders build teams that make their company grow without depending on them. We do not recruit. We do not do it for you. We build the thinking that makes every hire after this one better than the last. 🎙️ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/school-of-hiring/id1546484127 📺 YouTube: youtube.com/@schoolofhiring ✉️ Newsletter: newsletter.schoolofhiring.com/profile
Arrows Group is an international specialist technology staffing firm with over 200 staff across 3 international locations (London, Amsterdam & Berlin). From strategic-staffing consultancy to rapid deployment of teams, to complete recruitment outsourcing, we deliver business transformation through world-class talent delivery solutions. We work with customers all over the world to ensure they have access to the right technology skills when they need them. We’re proud of the long-standing relationships we’ve built, and the expertise we offer clients and candidates alike. We are one of only a few companies to have been listed in the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies To Work For 5 consecutive times. We have been listed in the Fast Track 100 and International Track 200 as one of the UK’s fastest growing businesses. The London Stock Exchange have included us in their 1,000 Companies to Inspire Britain for the last 2 years and our industry recognised Arrows Group in 2016 as the most admired brand as voted for by our competitors.
Caissa Executive is a global executive search firm that specializes in identifying and recruiting Board and C-suite executives for high-growth, innovative companies. We work with fast-growing firms worldwide, from early-stage through growth and exit, as well as the venture capital and private equity funds that support them. Our clients, including investors, boards, and leadership teams, highly value our advice, collaborative approach, diligence, global reach, and expertise in hiring executives who understand innovation and disruption. With a team of over 100 professionals across our group, we have an extensive reach across various sectors and geographies. Our offices in Berlin, Amsterdam, London, and soon San Francisco allow us to conduct searches for businesses from all over the world.
Since 2009 Caissa has matched innovative tech companies with best-in-class CTOs, VPs of Product, and Principal Engineers. Our brand-led recruitment approach ensures the right functional and value fit for both our clients and candidates. We have been awarded the Best Emerging Business in Germany by APSCo for our effective, data-driven approach which consistently delivers fantastic outcomes for clients and candidates. Caissa was acquired by Arrows Group (https://arrowsgroup.com/) in 2021 and later merged with Majar Group (https://www.majargroup.com/) in 2023.