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The Shortlist
The tool describes. People decide.
Ninefold is hiring an integration engineer. Each episode follows one step of the hire through RelationSynch, plays the most common misuse of that step straight, freezes it to show how the tool actually works, then rewinds to the better use.
- 6 episodes, 56 min
- 51 vertical Shorts
Who it's for
HR leaders and generalists, recruiters, hiring managers, team leads, and the executives who sign off on a new hiring tool. Built for skeptics, including people who have been burned by a personality test before.
6 episodes, about 9 minutes each. Each episode covers one step of the recommended hiring workflow and ends with three things to try.
What people learn
- What a hiring-fit profile describes (how someone tends to think, what drives them, how they like to work) and what it never measures: skill, intelligence or worth.
- How to profile the job you actually have, and keep only two to four requirements marked as the ones that matter most.
- Why there are four numbers and never one, and how to read confidence and quality flags before trusting any score.
- How the manager is part of the fit, how to use the team view without hiring clones, and why people, not scores, make the decision.
Episodes
- 01
Not a Horoscope
A skeptical engineering lead gets asked to take a personality assessment before he hires.
8:32 - 02
How They Think, What Drives Them
A hiring manager argues with his own profile all morning, then hands a candidate a type she never took.
10:21 - 03
Profile the Job You Actually Have
He describes the job as "writes integrations," marks all twelve weights as mattering a lot, and tags himself as the reference.
9:09 - 04
Four Numbers, Never One
He sorts his shortlist by one number and tapes a line under row two.
9:10 - 05
The Manager Is Part of the Fit
His favorite candidate scored ninety-nine with him on manager fit. The other one led with his blind spot.
9:54 - 06
Decide Like Humans
A creative director wants to use a personality profile to back up a performance review.
8:42
The cast
- Ray OkaforHead of operations, who also owns hiring
- Owen HaleLead engineer and skeptical hiring manager
- Hana MercerCandidate, integration engineer
- Jonah ReyesCandidate, backend engineer who sounds exactly like Owen
- Diane HollowayCreative director who signs off on the hire
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Tell us who it's for. We'll come back with how teams use this series, the materials that come with it, and what a start would look like.
