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Making your first hire when you've never hired
You've hired a person or two, but the mechanics — writing the role, running interviews, employment law, classification, onboarding — are a fog you're navigating by guesswork. One wrong move here is expensive and slow to undo, and you know it.
◆ How this problem reads on the two dials
GuidanceKnowledge
1:1 with AureliusWith others (a Pod)
Mostly a machinery you can learn — outcomes, work-samples, legal basics, onboarding (knowledge) — with a little nerve to decide (guidance). Peer input helps on the scorecard.
How the two dials adapt to you →What’s really going on
First hiring is where new managers quietly make costly, avoidable mistakes — not from carelessness, but because no one taught them the machinery, and the stakes make guessing feel dangerous. We take the fog out: what a good hire actually requires, the interview that predicts performance, and the legal and onboarding basics you can't afford to wing.
🔒 What you’ll build togetherUnlock by starting
KnowledgeHiring for the job, not the résumé
KnowledgeThe interview that predicts performance
KnowledgeThe legal basics you can't wing
KnowledgeOnboarding so the hire actually works out
A moveWrite the one outcome this hire must produce in 6 months — before you write the job post.
A moveDesign one work-sample task that mirrors the real job.
PractiseThe scorecard · a Pod of 4 · 30 min
What changes unlock by starting
- You hire against a clear outcome, not a gut feeling.
- Your interview predicts the work, not the interview.
- You avoid the classification and legal traps.
- The hire ramps and stays instead of washing out.
One object, two jobs: a public answer to a real problem, and — the moment you start the chat — Aurelius’s live plan for your version of it.