Cleaned complexity behind every fare
Last week, our team participated in 4 Street BIA Pancake Shodown. We were proud of our Bacon Pancakes, crisp, charming, a little sweet, until one of our recruits asked, “Do we have a vegetarian option?”
It awakened a waterfall of ideas. We had to reconsider: What about gluten-sensitive people? Or vegetarian? Or allergies to dairy? Within a few hours, we found ourselves re-working dishes, tested alternative flour, finding plant-based options, and still tried to make it all good.
Then it hit me. It is not just about pancakes.
It is also about hiring. We customize in a volume based business.
Hiring process is more than just “I need to hire someone”
But reality? This is not so easy. no way.
It is not only about finding a person. There are billions of people running on the planet. This is about finding the right person – for your culture, your technical stack, dynamic of your team, your project deadline, your compensation structure, your value and more. It is layered on nuances on nuances.
This reminded me of the classic essay I, pencilWhere a humble pencil describes impossiblely complicated, interconnected global web, which is necessary to bring it into wood, which becomes wood, the miners who dig the graphite, those who make rubber eraser, to those who make rubber eraser, do not know to make trees … no person knows to make a pencil. But it becomes.
It is like this.
The moment someone finds us – or we find them – the process begins. It can look like a simple job posting. But what comes out is a network of sourcing, veating, timing, communication, reference check, culture fit assessment, dialogue, onboarding and timing. Did I already say time? It is worth saying twice.
