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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 cost of a bad hire. Each episode focuses on a single decision point: writing a job description that attracts the right applicants, reading between the lines of a reference check, or deciding when to cut someone loose versus invest in coaching. Luna brings the HR-operations perspective (recruiting budgets, compliance risks, onboarding metrics), while Lucas challenges assumptions with economic data (labor-market tightness, wage-growth trends, productivity correlations). The listener here is a team lead, a founder, an HR professional, or anyone who has to hire or fire people and wants to do it with less guesswork. Expect no fluff — just the numbers, the cases, and the honest trade-offs. What does it actually cost to make a bad hire — and what would you pay to avoid it?
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Episode 34 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna take down the 'grit' hiring fad. They trace the concept back to Angela Duckworth's 2016 book, then break down why a gritty individual can destroy team cohesion.
Episode 33 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dive into a growing body of research showing that candidates hired for their learning ability, curiosity, and adaptability consistently outperform those hired so
Episode 32 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo dives into the science behind pre-employment assessments. Lucas and Luna examine a 2025 meta-analysis of 250 studies showing that well-designed work sample tests predict job per
When a top employee resigns, many managers rush to offer a counteroffer — more money, a better title, flexibility. But research shows that nearly 80 percent of employees who accept a counteroffer leave within 12 months a
Episode 30 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dig into the hidden bias in AI-powered resume screening tools. Lucas breaks down a 2025 study from the National Bureau of Economic Research that found algorithmi
Episode 29 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo explores why more employers are dropping degree requirements and shifting to skills-based assessments. Lucas and Luna examine the data behind this trend—including a 2024 Harvard
Employee referral programs are often hailed as the gold standard for hiring—faster, cheaper, higher retention. But new data from a 2025 study of 1,200 tech hires shows that referred candidates actually underperform in th
Lucas and Luna dig into a 2024 study from the Society for Human Resource Management that found the average job description contains more than 80 requirements — but the most effective ones have fewer than 10. They break d
Lucas and Luna dive into the hidden costs of hiring for remote roles — specifically the overlooked expenses tied to asynchronous onboarding, home office stipends, and cross-time-zone management. Citing a mid-2025 study f
Episode 25 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo unpacks the overlooked downside of hiring for culture fit. Lucas and Luna examine a 2025 study of 500 tech companies that found teams hired for culture fit were 18% less innovat
Episode 24 of Hiring & Firing tackles a counterintuitive strategy: rehiring former employees who were let go for performance issues. Lucas and Luna examine a 2026 study from the Society for Human Resource Management show
Lucas and Luna examine how companies like Siemens, IBM, and Salesforce are shifting from traditional college-degree requirements to apprenticeship programs for technical roles like software engineering and data analytics
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a hiring trend that's quietly blowing up budgets and offer letters: relocation packages. As of May 2026, more companies are forcing return-to-offi
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna tackle a costly hiring blind spot: candidate ghosting. Drawing on a 2025 survey by the talent platform Greenhouse, they reveal that 76% of job seekers say b
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how salary history bans are fundamentally changing the dynamics of compensation negotiation. They unpack a real case from a mid-sized tech firm in A
Episode 19 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo explores the overlooked power of boomerang employees — former staff who return to a company. Lucas presents compelling data from a 2025 LinkedIn study showing that boomerangs re
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the emerging trend of 'quiet hiring' — where companies fill skill gaps by redeploying existing employees rather than posting new roles. They discuss
In episode 17 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dig into one of the most persistent friction points in talent acquisition: the broken handoff between recruiters and hiring managers. They unpack a case study
Lucas and Luna dig into the multi-million dollar personality testing industry used by 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. They examine a 2024 meta-analysis from the University of Minnesota that found personality tests p
Episode 15 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo explores how salary transparency laws across U.S. states and Europe are changing recruitment. Lucas and Luna dig into the data from Colorado, New York, and the EU Pay Transparen
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