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Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
Most hiring advice is vague. This show is not. Lucas and Luna examine the actual mechanics of talent acquisition and workforce reduction: how to structure a behavioral interview, how to evaluate a candidate's long-term potential beyond the résumé, and how to manage a layoff with dignity and legal safety. They walk through real corporate cases — from Google's Project Oxygen to Amazon's 'Pivot' performance-improvement plans — and dissect the numbers behind hiring yields, employee churn, and the…
Episodes
Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce DecisionsHow a Salary Band Became a Hiring Advantage
In this episode of Hiring & Firing, Lucas and Luna explore how one mid-size tech firm turned a rigid salary band into a strategic hiring advantage. The company…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Trial Project Beat the Traditional Interview
Many companies still hire based on the classic interview, but a growing number are replacing it with something more concrete: a paid trial project. In this…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Trial Project Beat the Traditional Interview
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a trial project—a paid, week-long assignment for final-round candidates—is reshaping the hiring process. They focus…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Two-Week Notice Period Became a Hiring Edge
When a mid-sized logistics firm noticed its best candidates were being poached during the standard two-week notice period, they flipped the script. Instead of…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
Why One Firm Pays Rejected Candidates to Stay in Touch
Most rejected job candidates never hear from a company again. But one mid-sized tech firm tried something different: it started paying a small stipend to…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Rehire Audit Boosted Your Talent Pool
When a software firm realized its boomerang hiring policy was actually shrinking its talent pool, it ran a rehire audit. The audit uncovered a hidden bias…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Two-Week Notice Period Became a Hiring Edge
In Episode 167 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore why a growing number of companies are shortening or eliminating the two-week notice…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Return-to-Office Mandate Reshaped Hiring
When a mid-sized tech firm issued a five-day return-to-office mandate in early 2026, they expected attrition. What they didn't expect was a hiring boom —…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Rejection Hotline Turned Bad Hires Into Good Press
When a mid-sized tech firm realized its rejection emails were closing doors for years, it did something unusual: it launched a 'rejection hotline' –…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How Rehiring Former Employees Can Cut Hiring Costs
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the surprising power of the boomerang hire. They unpack a 2025 study showing that…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How to Hire People You Might Lay Off Someday
Lucas and Luna dig into a counterintuitive hiring strategy: building a workforce that stays productive even through layoffs. They examine how one mid-sized…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How Skills-Based Hiring Beat the Degree Filter
In episode 162 of Hiring & Firing, we look at a mid-sized logistics firm that dropped degree requirements for all roles and replaced the filter with a…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How an Internal Referral Audit Cut Bad Hires by 40 Percent
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a rarely examined corner of recruitment: the referral pipeline. When a mid-sized tech…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Hiring Freeze Forced Better Hiring
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into a counterintuitive story: a mid-sized logistics firm, facing a hiring freeze in late 2025, used the constraint to…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Structured Rehire Policy Turned Boomerangs into Assets
Episode 159 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo digs into the rise of the boomerang employee. Lucas and Luna explore how one mid-sized tech firm, after years of…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Rejection Email Built a Talent Pipeline
Most rejection emails are a dead end. But one mid-sized software firm turned theirs into a talent engine, converting rejected applicants into future hires…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Blind Résumé Review Changed Hiring Outcomes
In this episode of Hiring & Firing, Lucas and Luna explore how one company's decision to anonymize résumés—removing names, photos, and even educational…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Skills Matrix Beat the Résumé Screen
Lucas and Luna dig into a midsize logistics firm that stopped filtering candidates by résumé keywords and started scoring them on a skills matrix. The result…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How One Firm Cut Interview Bias by Scoring for Work Sample Tests
In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack a hiring experiment at a mid-sized logistics firm that replaced traditional interviews with work sample tests for…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Referral Bonus Backfired on One Company
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the unintended consequences of a referral bonus program at a mid-sized tech firm. When…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How Internal Mobility Cuts Hiring Costs in Half
Lucas and Luna dig into the underused hiring channel hiding inside every company: internal mobility. They walk through a real 2025 case where a 900-person…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
Why Exit Interviews Are a Hiring Tool
Most companies treat exit interviews as a formality, a chance to check the box as someone walks out the door. But a growing number of employers are mining…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Structured Reference Check Uncovered a Hidden CEO Candidate
In episode 151 of Hiring & Firing, Lucas and Luna explore why most reference checks are a rubber stamp — and how one company turned theirs into a powerful…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Salary Benchmarking Audit Equalized Pay
In this milestone 150th episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna tackle a topic that often feels like a black box: salary benchmarking. They…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
Why Salary Transparency Cut Our Offers by 18 Percent
In this episode of Hiring & Firing, Lucas and Luna dig into a surprising experiment: a regional logistics company that switched to fully transparent pay bands…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How One Company Cut Bad Hires by Dropping Degree Requirements
In this episode of Hiring & Firing, Lucas and Luna dig into a specific experiment at a mid-sized logistics firm that removed degree requirements from job…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Salary History Ban Changed Hiring Outcomes
Episode 147 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo digs into salary history bans. Lucas and Luna examine a 2025 study from a large US retail chain that removed salary…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Skills-Based Audit Uncovered Hidden Hiring Bias
In this episode of Hiring & Firing, Lucas and Luna dive into a fascinating case study from a mid-sized tech firm that decided to audit its entire hiring…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Reference Check Found Resume Fraud
In this episode, hosts Lucas and Luna dissect a near-miss hiring disaster at VantageMed, a mid-size health-tech firm. A final-round candidate with a flawless…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How Hiring for Curiosity Cut Turnover by 35 Percent
Most hiring processes reward knowledge, but what if the trait that predicts long-term success is curiosity? In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine a financial…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a No-Negotiation Offer Policy Improved Hiring
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the surprising success of a 'no-negotiation' salary offer policy at a mid-sized tech company called Veridian…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How Structured Onboarding Cut First-Year Attrition
In this episode of Hiring & Firing, Lucas and Luna dive into a real-world case from CloudNest, a mid-sized SaaS company that slashed first-year turnover from…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How Learning Agility Predicts Job Performance
Episode 141 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo explores why hiring for learning agility can be more effective than hiring for past experience. Lucas and Luna…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How Probation Data Revealed a Flawed Interview Process
At NexGen Software, 30 percent of new hires were failing probation. The talent team analyzed exit interviews and discovered that the final behavioral interview…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Two-Day Paid Trial Replaces Four Rounds of Interviews
Lucas shares a specific case study from a 200-person data analytics company called Nextera Analytics. They replaced the final two interview rounds with a…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How Ghosting Candidates Backfired on One Employer
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dissect a real case from a fast-growing Austin startup that systematically ghosted over 200 candidates during a single hiring…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Skills-Based Hiring Pilot Cut Screening Time in Half
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a case study of a logistics company that launched a skills-based hiring pilot for a…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How Non-Linear Careers Produce Your Best Hires
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore why candidates with zigzag career paths often outperform traditional hires. They…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How Structured Debriefs Improved Hiring Accuracy 25 Percent
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how one SaaS company overhauled their post-interview debrief process, moving from casual hallway chats to a structured…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Peer Interview Saved a Company from a Toxic Hire
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a true story of how a mid-sized SaaS company avoided a costly mistake by adding a peer…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Pre-Hire Work Audit Saved 1.2 Million in Wasted Salary
Episode 133 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo dives into a specific case: a mid-size B2B software company that lost $1.2 million over two years paying employees…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
Why Internal Referrals Create Your Best Hires
Employee referral programs are widely used, but many companies run them poorly. In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine the data behind referral hiring: why…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How One Bad Hire Cost 300k in Hidden Expenses
Lucas and Luna break down the true cost of a bad hire by examining a real mid-sized tech company that hired a senior engineer who seemed perfect on paper but…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Blind Hiring Trial Cut Bad Hires by 40 Percent
In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine a real-world blind hiring experiment conducted by a mid-size marketing agency that removed names, schools, and…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Hiring Freeze Forced Us to Hire Better
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive hiring lesson: sometimes a hiring freeze is the best thing that can…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How One Behavioral Question Predicts Retention Better Than Any Test
Episode 128 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dive into a single behavioral interview question that one Fortune 500 company found to be a…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
Why Hiring for Culture Add Beats Culture Fit
Episode 127 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna explore why 'culture fit' is often a bias trap and how 'culture add' leads to…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
Why Quiet Hiring Is Your Best Retention Strategy
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna tackle quiet hiring — the practice of filling roles internally through temporary assignments…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Candidate Rejection Letter Revealed Our Hiring Blind Spots
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dissect a real rejection letter that did more than just say no—it exposed a company's…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How One Bad Reference Check Cost a Company 500k
Lucas and Luna dissect a real case where a mid-stage startup ignored red flags from a candidate's former manager and ended up hiring a polished executive…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How Structured Exit Interviews Reveal Hidden Hiring Problems
Lucas and Luna explore why most exit interviews are useless and how structured, data-driven exit interviews can uncover systemic hiring failures. They break…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Hiring Scorecard Reduced Attrition by 30 Percent
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a mid-sized software company that used a structured hiring scorecard to…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
The Worst Hiring Mistake I Ever Made and What It Cost
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dig into a painful hiring mistake Lucas once made: hiring a charismatic sales leader who talked…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
Why Hiring for Empty Desks Is a Red Flag
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive signal in the hiring process: why a candidate who is immediately…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How to Spot a Candidate Who Overpromises
Episode 119 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dive into a specific red flag that recruiters miss: the 'hero narrative' in interviews…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
Why You Should Never Hire Based on Hunch Alone
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna break down the hidden cost of hiring based on gut feeling. Using real data from a Fortune 500…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Hiring Scorecard Reduced Attrition by 30 Percent
In this episode of Hiring & Firing, Lucas and Luna dig into a specific tool that one midsize tech company used to cut first-year attrition by 30 percent: the…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Reference Check Saved One Million Dollars
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna revisit a 2024 hiring disaster at a mid-market SaaS company that cost over $1 million in wasted…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Reference Check Saved One Million Dollars
Lucas and Luna dig into the surprisingly high cost of a bad hire — and why a single phone call can be the difference between a great employee and a…
- Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions
How a Work Simulation Cut Bad Hires by 50 Percent
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how one mid-sized tech company, CloudSmart, slashed its bad hire rate by more than half by replacing traditional…