People Puzzles™
TA Lab
For hiring managers
The slow part of hiring is rarely the sourcing. It is the intake that never pinned down what the person must prove, the loop that repeats itself, and the plan that ignores capacity. These free tools fix those three. No signup required.
You gave feedback three times and the candidates still are not right.
The intake probably never pinned down what this person must prove they can do. Vague intake produces vague shortlists.
Try the Intake Shredder →
The process has stretched to six or seven interviews and nobody wants to decide.
Every interview after the fifth needs distinct, job-relevant evidence. Most loops repeat the same questions with different faces.
Try the Interview Loop Builder →
Your recruiter says the requirements do not exist at this salary.
Sometimes that is pushback worth hearing. A search friction score shows which requirement is breaking the search.
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You are hiring three roles this quarter on top of your actual job.
That is a capacity question, not an effort question. The hiring plan has to match the recruiting hours that exist.
Try the Recruiter Load Balancer →
Interview Loop Builder
Answer four questions and get a five-interview-maximum loop, inside one business week, with a named owner for every criterion and scorecards for each interviewer.
Leave with the schedule, who owns what, and which interviews you can cut.
Build My Interview LoopIntake Shredder
Paste the notes from your intake meeting and get a search plan, a friction score for each requirement, and a Boolean starting point your recruiter can run.
Leave knowing which of your requirements help the search and which break it.
Shred My Intake NotesRecruiter Load Balancer
Five questions produce a directional estimate of how many recruiters your plan requires, the capacity gap, and the tradeoffs.
Leave with a number you can bring to the headcount conversation.
Check the CapacityTA Systems Scan
A free five-minute scan across six areas of your talent system, separating a one-off problem from a repeated pattern.
Leave with a score for each area and the one lever to pull first.
Run the ScanWorking with a TA team
If the problem is bigger than one search — repeated patterns across roles, loops and capacity — the TA Systems Scan is the place to start, and the case study shows what a fix looks like.