Comparison
EmployLabs vs a recruitment agency
Cost per hire, speed, control, and what you keep afterwards. The comparison most of our customers are actually making, written including the cases where the agency wins.
· 5 min read
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How roles actually get filled.
Product updates from Meera, Naira and Zia, plus what we learn running real hiring pipelines. Written for the person doing the hiring.
Article
How to write a job description an AI can source from
A job description advertises the role and specifies it, and those are different documents for different audiences. How to write the second one.
· 3 min read
Product update
Set a budget, and never spend past it
A ceiling per role and per account. When it is reached, work stops and you are told. Nothing is bought in order to discover the limit.
· 2 min read
Article
Candidate experience when the recruiter is an AI
Consent, transparency, tone, and the right to a straight answer. The standards worth holding yourself to, and a three-step test for any vendor.
· 3 min read
Product update
The candidate questions that never reach your inbox
Reading the offer letter, what a 90-day notice really means, what the role is actually asking for. Zia answers them in the conversation, at whatever hour they are asked.
· 2 min read
Product update
Start your search with a market map
Before you answer a single question about the role, you are looking at the market it sits in: who is hiring, what it pays, and where the supply actually is.
· 2 min read
Article
What a voice AI interview can and cannot measure
An honest scope piece. Where a structured AI interview beats a phone screen, where it is no substitute for meeting someone, and the four questions worth asking a vendor.
· 3 min read
Product update
Run a confidential search
Choose whether candidates hear the company name. With it off, every candidate-facing surface uses a neutral description, including what the AI interviewer says out loud.
· 2 min read
Product update
Know exactly what to probe in your own interview
The interview report ends with what to push on when you meet the candidate, what they will need in their first 90 days, and which risks actually matter.
· 3 min read
Article
How many must-have requirements should a role have?
Every hard requirement rejects candidates outright, and rejections compound. A practical method for deciding which of your criteria genuinely belong on that list.
· 4 min read
Product update
Every score comes with its evidence
You cannot defend a shortlist you cannot interrogate. Here is what sits behind each number on the platform, including the verdict that is deliberately not a number.
· 3 min read
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