Most organizations have a storytelling problem. Marketing tells stories to customers. Sales tells stories to prospects. Executives tell stories to investors. But internally — the stories employees actually need to feel connected, motivated, and inspired — nobody owns them. HR does. They just haven't claimed it yet.
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Most interview processes aren't broken because of bad questions. They're broken because teams walk out of interviews asking the wrong thing entirely — "do we like them?" instead of "will they actually succeed here?" There's a big difference. And it's costing you more than you think.
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Recruiting fees. DIY hiring. Bad fits. High turnover. At some point, every early-stage company realizes the way they've been hiring is the reason they keep having to hire. There's a better way — and it starts before you ever post a job description.
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You did everything right. You found a strong candidate, moved them through the process, and felt good about where things were headed. Then they took another offer. The easy answer is to blame timing, compensation, or the market. But most of the time, the real answer is simpler and harder to hear: your hiring process already made the decision for them.
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We see it all the time. A company posts a job opening, waits for applications, and then wonders why the best candidates aren’t interested. The problem isn’t the role. It’s not the compensation. It’s the job posting itself. At Pivot and Edge, we’ve identified one of the biggest gaps in modern recruiting: companies treat job …
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There’s a term that gets thrown around a lot in recruiting circles: employer branding. You’ve probably heard it. You might even use it. But here’s the thing—most people are using it wrong. They conflate employer brand with corporate brand. They think it’s about your logo, your color scheme, your company values plastered on a wall. …
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