Taken or Given · the Hiring Room Test

What is your hiring process
actually selecting for?

Eight questions about your process, not your candidates. Nobody who applied to you is being assessed here.

It reads two things: whether the process hands candidates a floor or makes them win one, and whether what it assesses is the job or a proxy for it. Those are independent — a process can be scrupulously fair and still be measuring the wrong thing.

A self-reflection tool based on the Taken or Given framework — not a validated psychological assessment or a diagnosis.

Two minutes · free · no sign-up · nothing you answer is sent anywhere

Answer for one role you have hired for recently — the process as it actually ran, not as it is written down.

First · the shape of it

Two numbers about one role.

This is arithmetic, not scoring — it totals what the process asks of the people who go through it. Estimates are fine.

How many candidates reach an interview?
Per role filled — not applications, people you actually spoke to.
How many hours does one candidate spend?
Everything across every stage: interviews, take-homes, presentations, travel, and the preparation each of those implies.
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