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Hosted by Anita Chauhan · business · EN-US · 94 episodes
Looks Good on Paper flips hiring on its head. Hosted by Andrew Wood and Anita Chauhan, we dive into why CVs and "perfect fits" are overrated. Through fun, insightful conversations with industry experts, we explore how skills, potential, and real experience should be the focus of hiring... not what looks good on paper. Quick, candid, and packed with actionable insights, we’re here to rewrite the rules of hiring, one episode at a time.
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Signup to Generate a PitchLooks Good on Paper flips hiring on its head. Hosted by Andrew Wood and Anita Chauhan, we dive into why CVs and "perfect fits" are overrated. Through fun, insightful conversations with industry experts, we explore how skills, potential, and real experience should be the focus of hiring... not what looks good on paper.
Looks Good on Paper is hosted by Anita Chauhan. The show has published 94 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Coherence bias and the four-question screening call, with Chrissy Oni of Stagwell Global" (14 October 2026, 17 minutes), "Untrained Interviewers and the Culture Fit Myth, with Jay Guney" (7 October 2026, 21 minutes), and "Hiring for potential, not perfection, with Daniel Hackett of Amazon" (23 September 2026, 22 minutes).
Looks Good on Paper publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 19 minutes across 94 episodes.
Booking probability for Looks Good on Paper is 41%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Looks Good on Paper requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Looks Good on Paper's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Looks Good on Paper are Staffing & Recruiting. Looks Good on Paper has a business audience.
Anita Chauhan hosts Looks Good on Paper, a business show with 94 episodes published.
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Episode #9
Structured interviews, coherence bias and hiring beyond the CV. Most hiring processes are built to find people who interview well. Chrissy Oni, Talent Acquisition Director, Europe at Stagwell Global, has spent her...
Episode #8
Interviewer training, culture fit bias and hiring without a CV, with Jay Guney, founder and managing director of Dcoded. Most hiring processes put real effort into finding candidates and almost none into the person who...
Episode #7
Military hiring, alternative talent pipelines and candidate-led recruitment, with Daniel Hackett of Amazon. Most hiring starts with the business. What does the team need, what skills are on the job description, what...
Episode #6
Skills-based hiring, ageism, and what the research says about years of experience, with Heidi Wassini, Chief People Officer at Viebke & West. Most hiring processes begin by screening on years of experience, and the...
Episode #5
Hiring bias, AI screening and skills-based hiring at global scale, with Kanwar Kohli, Senior Leader for Global Talent Delivery at Booking.com. Most organisations respond to hiring risk the same way. They add a stage...
Episode #4
Workforce planning, hiring capacity and the end of the CV, with Leo Harrison, founder and CEO of Chapter 2. Most hiring plans are modelled around the talent team. The funnel gets loaded, capacity gets mapped, monthly...
Episode #3
Most hiring teams have an audit for bias. They check the language in the job ad, they structure the interview, they train the panel. Almost none of them audit the requirements themselves. Cary Sparrow thinks that is...
Episode #2
A CV is the one document where people are trusted to describe themselves, and it is also the one place they are most careful to leave things out. Not the boring things. The real ones. The cricket obsession, the makeup...
Episode #1
We took a camera around RecFest 2026 and asked one question over and over: what's something about yourself that would never show up on a CV? We got a singer. A horse rider. Someone who runs mountain ultras. A former...
Episode #12
There is almost no business process on earth that works the same way in every country. Payroll differs. Contracts differ. Even the working week differs. But post a job anywhere in the world, and the price of entry is...
Episode #11
Every athlete who makes a team has to prove they can play. They run drills. They scrimmage. They perform under pressure while someone watches. But in hiring, we skip all of that. We scan a resume for six seconds, run a...
Episode #10
The average time to hire in 2026 is 44 days. Taylor Genre's team at Beemac Logistics gives every sales candidate a final answer within 24 hours. Taylor is the Director of Recruiting and Marketing at Beemac Logistics, a...
Episode #9
Startups love being scrappy. They love the hustle. And they keep making the same mistake with that energy: hiring three or four junior people when they should have hired one senior person. Not because junior talent...
Episode #8
"Culture fit" sounds like a good thing until you look at what it actually filters for. People who look like you. People who sound like you. People who make you comfortable. It's not a hiring strategy. It's a survival...
Episode #7
Hiring managers keep passing on their best candidates because they haven't figured out what great looks like before the first interview starts. The strongest batch comes in early, gets overlooked, and by the time the...
Episode #6
Half of all hires do not work out. Jenny Do Forno, CPO at TouchBistro, explains why the hiring process is measuring the wrong things and what to do instead. Jenny has spent nearly 25 years building and scaling teams...
Episode #5
Deepfakes in hiring interviews are real. A recruiter at Xero shares the story of a candidate who impersonated a deceased person on a video call, and explains how his team catches fake profiles, eliminates culture fit...
Episode #4
Most hiring decisions get made on a feeling. A hiring manager comes out of an interview, says "I think this one is a better fit," and the team moves forward. Anu Joshi has spent 17 years inside talent functions watching...
Episode #3
The person who interviews the best is not always the person who performs the best. In fact, sometimes they're the worst hire you'll make. Hamza Khan knows this firsthand. His own company, SkillsCamp, a soft skills...
Episode #2
The skills-based economy arrived five years ago. Hiring still hasn't caught up. Most companies understand the concept of hiring for skills over job titles, but they hit a wall when it comes to translating that into an...
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