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The One Hiring Metric That Predicts Performance Better Than Experience
In this milestone 100th episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the most underrated hiring metric: learning agility. Drawing on the story of a mid-sized tech firm that cut its bad hire rate by 30% simply by measuring how quickly new hires mastered unfamiliar tasks, the hosts explain why years of experience and polished resumes often mislead. Lucas breaks down the specific assessment — a 30-minute structured work sample — that reveals a candidate's ability to learn on the fly, while Luna challenges him on whether this approach screens out experienced professionals unfairly. The episode also…
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