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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 l
Fexingo hosts Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions, a business show with 107 episodes published.
Episode 133 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo dives into a specific case: a mid-size B2B software company that lost $1.2 million over two years paying employees whose jobs had become irrelevant. Lucas and Luna break down h
Employee referral programs are widely used, but many companies run them poorly. In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine the data behind referral hiring: why referred candidates tend to have higher retention and faster ra
Lucas and Luna break down the true cost of a bad hire by examining a real mid-sized tech company that hired a senior engineer who seemed perfect on paper but caused two years of productivity drag, team churn, and rework.
In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine a real-world blind hiring experiment conducted by a mid-size marketing agency that removed names, schools, and graduation years from resumes. They discuss why blinding works, where
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive hiring lesson: sometimes a hiring freeze is the best thing that can happen to your talent pipeline. They examine a real-world cas
Episode 128 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dive into a single behavioral interview question that one Fortune 500 company found to be a stronger predictor of two-year retention than any cognitive test, pe
Episode 127 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna explore why 'culture fit' is often a bias trap and how 'culture add' leads to more innovative teams. Using the example of a tech startup that deliberately hired
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna tackle quiet hiring — the practice of filling roles internally through temporary assignments, projects, or upskilling before posting externally. Lucas expla
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dissect a real rejection letter that did more than just say no—it exposed a company's systemic hiring blind spots. They recount the story of a candidate who
Lucas and Luna dissect a real case where a mid-stage startup ignored red flags from a candidate's former manager and ended up hiring a polished executive who misrepresented revenue numbers. The hire lasted seven months,
Lucas and Luna explore why most exit interviews are useless and how structured, data-driven exit interviews can uncover systemic hiring failures. They break down a real case: a mid-size tech company that redesigned its e
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a mid-sized software company that used a structured hiring scorecard to slash first-year turnover by nearly a third. Lucas explains t
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dig into a painful hiring mistake Lucas once made: hiring a charismatic sales leader who talked a great game but delivered nothing. Lucas walks through the
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive signal in the hiring process: why a candidate who is immediately available might actually be a warning sign, and why a crowded ca
Episode 119 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dive into a specific red flag that recruiters miss: the 'hero narrative' in interviews. Using the real-world example of a startup that hired a sales VP who clai
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna break down the hidden cost of hiring based on gut feeling. Using real data from a Fortune 500 retailer that eliminated unstructured interviews, they show ho
In this episode of Hiring & Firing, Lucas and Luna dig into a specific tool that one midsize tech company used to cut first-year attrition by 30 percent: the structured hiring scorecard. They walk through how the company
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna revisit a 2024 hiring disaster at a mid-market SaaS company that cost over $1 million in wasted salary, severance, and lost productivity. They break down ex
Lucas and Luna dig into the surprisingly high cost of a bad hire — and why a single phone call can be the difference between a great employee and a million-dollar mistake. Lucas shares a case study from a mid-size tech f
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how one mid-sized tech company, CloudSmart, slashed its bad hire rate by more than half by replacing traditional behavioral interviews with a four-hour work simulation. Lucas break
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