Writing — Osama Bin Jannat

Time-to-Hire Is a Queueing Problem, Not a Sourcing Problem

We cut average time-to-hire from 41 days to 19 without adding a single sourcer. The fix was not more candidates. It was removing the four queues they sat in.

May 12, 20266 min read

Leadership

What Breaks When a Team Crosses Fifty

At 30 people everyone knows what is happening. At 70 nobody does. The failure is not culture drift, it is that informal coordination stops scaling around 50.

March 18, 20266 min read

Startups

Hiring Your First Ten People

Your first ten hires set the ceiling on everything that follows. Each one shifts the culture by ten percent, and the mistakes compound faster than the wins.

January 28, 20266 min read

Study Abroad

How to Read a Scholarship Offer Before You Accept It

A 70 percent scholarship at an expensive university can cost more than a 30 percent one elsewhere. Here is how to work out what an offer is really worth.

November 6, 20256 min read

Marketing

Building a Talent Brand That Does the Recruiting for You

Inbound applications went from 12 a month to just over 300 in fourteen months. We never ran an employer branding campaign. We published what we knew.

September 15, 20256 min read

Career

How to Read a Job Offer, and the Company Behind It

I have written a lot of offers and read plenty as a candidate. The number at the top is the least informative part of the document. Here is what to check.

July 22, 20256 min read

Business

The Operating Cadence That Keeps a Scaling Company Coherent

Most companies do not lose alignment through disagreement. They lose it to drift, because nothing forces the whole company to look at reality together.

April 9, 20256 min read

Notes on people, AI and building companies.

Where AI Actually Helps Inside a People Function

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Time-to-Hire Is a Queueing Problem, Not a Sourcing Problem

What Breaks When a Team Crosses Fifty

Hiring Your First Ten People

How to Read a Scholarship Offer Before You Accept It

Building a Talent Brand That Does the Recruiting for You

How to Read a Job Offer, and the Company Behind It

The Operating Cadence That Keeps a Scaling Company Coherent

Notes on people, AI and building companies.

Where AI Actually Helps Inside a People Function

Everything else

Time-to-Hire Is a Queueing Problem, Not a Sourcing Problem

What Breaks When a Team Crosses Fifty

Hiring Your First Ten People

How to Read a Scholarship Offer Before You Accept It

Building a Talent Brand That Does the Recruiting for You

How to Read a Job Offer, and the Company Behind It

The Operating Cadence That Keeps a Scaling Company Coherent

Featured essay

Where AI Actually Helps Inside a People Function

Everything else

Time-to-Hire Is a Queueing Problem, Not a Sourcing Problem

What Breaks When a Team Crosses Fifty

Hiring Your First Ten People

How to Read a Scholarship Offer Before You Accept It

Building a Talent Brand That Does the Recruiting for You

How to Read a Job Offer, and the Company Behind It

The Operating Cadence That Keeps a Scaling Company Coherent

Featured essay

Where AI Actually Helps Inside a People Function

Everything else

Time-to-Hire Is a Queueing Problem, Not a Sourcing Problem

What Breaks When a Team Crosses Fifty

Hiring Your First Ten People

How to Read a Scholarship Offer Before You Accept It

Building a Talent Brand That Does the Recruiting for You

How to Read a Job Offer, and the Company Behind It

The Operating Cadence That Keeps a Scaling Company Coherent