Co-founder & CEO at Flash Pack 🌏 Sharing lessons as I scale one of the UK’s fastest growing startups. Championing diversity in entrepreneurship.
I don’t care about your CV. I care about your: → Drive → Values → Attitude → Resilience → Coachability At Flash Pack, our application process is ‘faceless’. Here’s how it works: 1/ Anonymity When applications roll in, our system swaps names for quirky pseudonyms like "Blue Parrot" or "Cosmic Explorer." This ensures we're focused on substance, not surface. 2/ Three questions We ask three carefully crafted questions designed to reveal a candidate's personality, potential, and approach. 3/ Scoring, not skimming We meticulously score each answer, prioritising attitude and potential over past experience. 4/ CVs come later Only after the initial screening do we look at resumes. This prevents unconscious bias and ensures we're not blinded by fancy credentials. And we’ve got a stellar team. People whose potential shone immediately… But who might have been overlooked on traditional criteria. The best teams are built on shared values, not just skills. Don’t you agree? --- If this post resonated, follow me, Radha, for more like it 🩵
Absolutely love this approach! I’d love to weave our own values into a system like this. Are there any HR tools you reccomend for this process? As a super lean startup we’ve currently got a team of one (🙋🏻♀️) screening applicants 🫠 Brava!
I wonder what these three questions are 😄
We do the same re no CVs and questions instead but pseudonyms are a great shout, I need to look into how to do that
I love the idea of this but if that’s the case then why haven’t I ever had a chance to speak with anyone about opportunities within the org despite reaching out to both yourself and Lee with sincere messages clearly laying out my passionate attitude and committed drive to contributing to the travel community at large? 🤔
I love this approach! However, when I got to the last stage of your hiring process I was told I wasn’t experienced enough on specific hard skills and my willingness to learn and adapt wasn’t considered, because, at the end of the day, the past experience won over the potential or drive… Don’t know if you changed the process since then but that was my experience at least :(
💯, Radha!
The market is completely lacking a skills, values and potential based approach right now. Thanks for sharing this and reminding companies what cool business's recruitment looks like 👏
So refreshing to hear this approach to the hiring process, making it much more human
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1moAmazing! Which software do you use?