Why binary requirements and a 12-month success line beat adjectives
Nate tears apart a publicly posted Head of Solution Engineering ad from a fast-growing automation vendor — two things it does brilliantly, two it gets badly wrong. Ava pushes back on publishing comp bands and on asking candidates to sign up for a number before they know the territory.
What Nate and Ava discuss
- Publishing the salary band as a filter in both directions — and what it costs you internally
- Killing unmeasurable must-haves like 'AI curiosity' and replacing them with observable evidence
- Adding the one sentence almost no job ad contains: what success looks like after twelve months
The move
Open your current req and add a single line describing what success looks like twelve months in. Then walk your must-have list and delete anything a candidate can't answer with a plain yes or no.
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Your hosts
Nate Hargrove
The Seasoned Pragmatist
Ava Vasquez
The Modern Builder