How the choice gets framed decides who gets hired
Same candidates, same brief, a different set of words, a different hire. Four decades of framing research, applied to shortlists, briefs and offers.
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Leadership assessment
Every Recruise insight tagged leadership assessment — the articles below, newest first.
15 articles
All insightsThree team models to retire, and the one AI makes worse
Tuckman, Belbin and Hawthorne rest on thin or misread evidence, and an agreeable AI makes the Abilene paradox worse. What GCC heads can do instead.
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Most hiring compliance failures are process failures, not legal ones
The policy is usually right. What breaks is consistency across interviewers, a record nobody owns, and the exception granted verbally under time pressure.
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Hiring for judgement when everyone can use the tools
When the skill is commodity, the differentiator is knowing where to apply it. How to assess for that.
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Why your shortlist is worse than your candidate pool
Most GCC TA teams filter for the wrong signals. We ran an audit across our mandate book. The pattern is uncomfortable.
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Assessing for judgement over skill
Skill is easy to test and a weak predictor of whether a senior hire holds. Where the signal actually lives, and how to read it in an interview.
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‘Culture fit’ is how good centres talk themselves out of great leaders
The most cited reason a senior candidate gets passed over is the one nobody can define. A contrarian read on the orthodoxy most GCC panels never question.
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The best people leave first. Here’s why that’s predictable.
Your strongest seniors have the most options and the least patience for a seat that under-delivers on its promise. They exit while the median stays.
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What sourcing signals actually predict a hire
We looked back across a run of closed senior searches to see which early signals separated the candidates who converted from the ones who didn’t.
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Designing an interview process that measures the right thing
Most loops test whether a candidate can survive the loop. A few extra rounds rarely add signal, they add drop-off. What to cut, and what to keep.
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Hiring fast and hiring well are two different things, and the market keeps confusing them
Speed is easy to measure, so it’s the thing everyone optimises. Rajesh Pandian on what a rushed senior hire actually costs you two years out, when the bill finally lands.
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The reference check is the new skills test
When a senior candidate’s portfolio is AI-assisted, it stops proving their judgement. Verification becomes the hard part of the hire.
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A curated shortlist hides the two candidates who’d have said yes
Over-curation filters out the highest-intent candidates. A loss-analysis, and how to re-open the pool.
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The leadership assessment we run before a GCC head hire closes
The four dimensions that predict whether a leader will grow with the centre or plateau with it, drawn from two decades of placements.
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The retention problem is a selection problem you didn’t notice
By the time a leader is leaving, the mistake is eighteen months old. A hard truth about why the best retention work happens before the offer.
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