After your hiring plan review: what happens next

• ✓1. Read the call summaryWithin one business day of the call you get a short written summary: the capacity gap, the month the plan breaks, and the options discussed. Read it before forwarding it.
• ✓2. Share the numbers with whoever owns the planThe CFO, the hiring managers, or the exec who set the hire count. The summary is written to be forwarded as-is.
• ✓3. Pick the lever you are pullingSequence the plan differently, add capacity, cut scope, or fix the process drag. One lever, named out loud — not a blend of all four.
• ✓4. Confirm the two numbers the decision rests onRealistic recruiter capacity per week and the true time cost of the heaviest roles. If either was a guess on the call, replace it with a measured number this week.
• ✓5. Decide whether you want help fixing itSome teams take the summary and run internally. Others book a Systems Sprint to fix the constraint in four weeks. Both are valid — decide explicitly either way.
• ✓6. Set a 30-day checkpointPut a date in the calendar to re-check the plan against reality. If the month the plan breaks has moved closer, act before it arrives.

The two paths from here