HR · Intermediate · about 16 minutes

Hiring and people — job descriptions, interviews and the decisions AI must not make

You need an accounts executive. You post a JD copied from another company. You get 140 applications, skim 30, interview 6, and hire the one you liked talking to.

You need

Role: Accounts Executive, kitchenware D2C, Jaipur. Real tasks: reconcile marketplace settlements against sales register (8 hrs/wk); vendor payments and follow-up (6); GST data preparation for the CA (4); daily bank entries (4); monthly MIS support (3).

Tool

Any assistant with your real task list

You get

3. INFLATED REQUIREMENTS — You did not state a years-of-experience requirement, which is correct and unusual.

Time saved

Hiring process design from a day to about 90 minutes, and the work sample dramatically improves the hit rate.