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Jun 2021
Hireguide is an end-to-end interview management system that makes hiring decisions faster, fairer and twice as predictive of performance.
The Challenge:
Talent teams know that skills-based, structured interviewing delivers much better results but today these practices are just too hard to implement at scale. Most ATS’ tick a box, but lack the specialized interview capabilities to deliver consistent, high-quality interview decisions at scale. The outcome is often a costly, labor-intensive, and unstructured interview process leading to higher attrition. Critical hiring data is also not captured to improve the system.
The Solution:
Hireguide unites AI and hiring science to make it easy for interviewers to adopt best practices at every step. 01 Before: Recruiters save hours by building a skills-based scorecard and multi-round interview plan with question guides for any role in minutes. 02 During: Interviewers automatically capture shareable recordings and notes. 03 After: Teams can compare candidates and make evidence-based decisions. 04 Throughout: Valuable insights are captured to provide coaching and tune the process for better outcomes. Hireguide consolidates dozens of point solutions and manual processes with a single integration. It pulls and returns data from 40+ ATS’ but is not limited by their workflows. In short, great hires from a great process.
The Mission:
Founded by 10+ Sr. LinkedIn alumni and I/O psychology PhDs. As a Certified B Corp were on a mission to make 1 billion annual interviews clearer and less biased by making skills-based structured interviewing easy to use. Hireguide is growing very quickly and is funded by the best VCs and CEOs in HR-Tech.
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2023
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Jul 2023
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.
The nine-month program employs an objectives-based mentoring process to enhance the performance of technical founders who learn from the insights of experienced entrepreneurs, with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation.
Founded by Professor Ajay Agrawal in 2012 at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the program has expanded and now has 11 sites across six countries: Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Halifax, Paris, Madison, Seattle, Estonia, Berlin, and Melbourne.
The program combines 5 elements to help companies transition from science projects to scalable and financeable companies:
- An emphasis on objective-setting, helping companies focus on what’s most important to their business
- Focused mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs who have founded, led, and sold significant tech companies
- Technical advice from world-leading scientists, engineers, and economists
- Hands-on support from top business students, who embed within the company to provide business support
- Opportunities to raise capital, including angels and VCs from Europe and North America
The successful commercialization of cutting-edge science and technology achieved through the program has led to the creation of over CAD $35 billion in equity value.
2021
Advisor & Investor
Jun 2021
Hireguide is an end-to-end interview management system that makes hiring decisions faster, fairer and twice as predictive of performance.
The Challenge:
Talent teams know that skills-based, structured interviewing delivers much better results but today these practices are just too hard to implement at scale. Most ATS’ tick a box, but lack the specialized interview capabilities to deliver consistent, high-quality interview decisions at scale. The outcome is often a costly, labor-intensive, and unstructured interview process leading to higher attrition. Critical hiring data is also not captured to improve the system.
The Solution:
Hireguide unites AI and hiring science to make it easy for interviewers to adopt best practices at every step. 01 Before: Recruiters save hours by building a skills-based scorecard and multi-round interview plan with question guides for any role in minutes. 02 During: Interviewers automatically capture shareable recordings and notes. 03 After: Teams can compare candidates and make evidence-based decisions. 04 Throughout: Valuable insights are captured to provide coaching and tune the process for better outcomes. Hireguide consolidates dozens of point solutions and manual processes with a single integration. It pulls and returns data from 40+ ATS’ but is not limited by their workflows. In short, great hires from a great process.
The Mission:
Founded by 10+ Sr. LinkedIn alumni and I/O psychology PhDs. As a Certified B Corp were on a mission to make 1 billion annual interviews clearer and less biased by making skills-based structured interviewing easy to use. Hireguide is growing very quickly and is funded by the best VCs and CEOs in HR-Tech.
2018
CEO and Co-Founder
Jan 2018
Outliers Mining Solutions offers Operational Excellence, Business Improvement, Optimization,Technology Strategy and Implementation and Due Diligence consulting services to mines and mining companies, consultants and technology providers across the globe in the mining sector.
Vision:
We strive to transform mining operations into world class operations by implementing sustainable change and improvement in line with client’s needs.
Mission:
We aim to be the partner of choice in defining, assessing, implementing and sustaining operational and mining improvements with zero to minimal investment in Capital.
2012
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