How many candidates in the first round: the honest answer
How many candidates in the first round of interviewing? Four to six, assuming your pre-screening worked. If you're shortlisting more, your screen is broken.
Aug 11, 20266 min read
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Your AI recruiting tool is solving the wrong problem
Most AI recruiting tools automate resume screening. That was never the bottleneck. Here is what the real problem looks like and what to buy for it.
Ployo TeamAugust 18, 20266 min read
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Recruitment SEO Guide: Stop Optimizing the Wrong Thing
Most recruitment SEO advice targets job descriptions. The real problem is post-click conversion. Here is where hiring teams lose candidates they ranked for.
Aug 6, 20266 min read
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Planning 80 interviews for 8 hires is a symptom of broken screening, not a fixed ratio. Here is a better model for your interview pipeline.
Aug 4, 20266 min read
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Why demanding care experience narrows your NDIS talent pool
Why requiring prior care experience for NDIS support worker roles narrows your applicant pool, and what to screen for instead to find workers who last.
Jul 30, 20266 min read
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Why the real cost of care worker turnover is often invisible
Why aged care and NDIS providers underestimate the true cost of staff turnover and how a better upfront hiring process cuts the replacement burden.
Jul 28, 20267 min read
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What AHPRA registration misses about your next clinical hire
AHPRA registration confirms legal standing, not care quality. Here is what AU healthcare hiring still needs to assess beyond the registration check alone.
Jul 23, 20266 min read
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Why care worker job ads keep attracting the wrong candidates
Most aged care and NDIS job ads are compliance checklists. They filter for minimum credentials, not for attributes that predict who stays past 90 days.
Jul 21, 20266 min read
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Aged care workforce shortage is a hiring speed problem
Aged care providers facing roster gaps usually blame supply. The candidates are there. A four-week hiring process loses them to whoever makes an offer first.
Jul 16, 20266 min read
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How to hire home care workers who last beyond six months
Most home care providers use the same process as residential aged care. Here is why that approach keeps failing and what a stronger process actually looks like.
Jul 14, 20266 min read
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The best aged care workers have never worked in aged care
Most aged care providers hire only from the experienced-care pool. That pool is exhausted and does not predict retention. Here is the case for career changers.
Jul 9, 20265 min read
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Why behavioural interview questions fail in care hiring
Behavioural interview questions assume a work history most care candidates don't have. Scenario questions are more predictive for aged care and NDIS roles.
Jul 7, 20266 min read
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Why structured onboarding beats better hiring in aged care
Most aged care providers try to fix retention by hiring better. The first two weeks of onboarding determine retention more than any screening step does.
Jul 2, 20266 min read
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Your aged care agency spend is a recruitment process problem
Aged care providers want to cut agency staffing costs but rarely do. The reason is not supply. It is a permanent hiring process too slow to close roster gaps.
Jun 30, 20266 min read
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The NDIS Worker Screening Check is not a capability test
Most NDIS providers make the Worker Screening Check their main hiring filter. It screens criminal history, not values. Here is what to assess instead.
Jun 25, 20266 min read
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Why aged care interview questions fail to find good workers
Aged care interview questions often reward rehearsed language over real values. Here is what scenario-based screening reveals instead.
Jun 23, 20267 min read
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Why aged care workers quit before 90 days
Most aged care workers who leave do so in the first three months. Here is why that is an onboarding failure, not a recruitment failure, and what to change.
Jun 18, 20266 min read
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The answer that scored 89 and the note I left anyway
Forty-one transcripts for one role. Candidate 23 scored 89 on question five, the highest by 11 points. I scored it and left a note in the file.
Jun 17, 20265 min read
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She scored 71, and that number erased what happened
Thirty-eight transcripts for a customer success role. Candidate 17 scored 71. The number is accurate. The shape of how she got there is not in the output.
Jun 16, 20264 min read
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