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Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions

Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions

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Most hiring advice is vague. This show is not. Lucas and Luna examine the actual mechanics of talent acquisition and workforce reduction: how to structure a behavioral interview, how to evaluate a candidate's long-term potential beyond the résumé, and how to manage a layoff with dignity and legal safety. They walk through real corporate cases — from Google's Project Oxygen to Amazon's 'Pivot' performance-improvement plans — and dissect the numbers behind hiring yields, employee churn, and the cost of a bad hire. Each episode focuses on a single decision point: writing a job description that attracts the right applicants, reading between the lines of a reference check, or deciding when to cut someone loose versus invest in coaching. Luna brings the HR-operations perspective (recruiting budgets, compliance risks, onboarding metrics), while Lucas challenges assumptions with economic data (labor-market tightness, wage-growth trends, productivity correlations). The listener here is a team lead, a founder, an HR professional, or anyone who has to hire or fire people and wants to do it with less guesswork. Expect no fluff — just the numbers, the cases, and the honest trade-offs. What does it actually cost to make a bad hire — and what would you pay to avoid it? #HiringAndFiring #Recruitment #PerformanceManagement #WorkforcePlanning #TalentAcquisition #Layoffs #BehavioralInterviewing #EmploymentLaw #HumanResources #LaborEconomics #EmployeeRetention #Onboarding #PerformanceReviews #HRStrategy #PersonnelDecisions #Business #FexingoBusiness #Careers Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo© 2026 Fexingo. All rights reserved. Economics
Episodes
  • Why Your Interview Should Include a Hands-On Work Sample

    Why Your Interview Should Include a Hands-On Work Sample
    Jul 1 2026
    Most interviews test how well someone sells themselves, not how well they do the job. This episode digs into the growing body of evidence that work-sample tests — a 30-minute task that mirrors actual job duties — predict on-the-job performance more than twice as accurately as traditional interviews. We look at a specific case: a mid-size B2B software company that introduced a coding exercise for its support engineers and saw time-to-competency drop from nine weeks to five, plus a 30 percent improvement in first-call resolution. Lucas and Luna debate whether work samples can work for non-technical roles like sales or management, and discuss common pushback: candidates who refuse, the risk of bias, and how to design a task that feels fair. If you've ever sat through an interview that felt like a performance rather than a real test of ability, this one's for you. #Hiring #Interviews #WorkSampleTest #TalentAcquisition #Recruitment #PerformancePrediction #SkillBasedHiring #EmploymentTesting #HiringBias #JobFit #CandidateExperience #HROptimization #BusinessPodcast #HiringAndFiring #FexingoBusiness #LucasAndLuna #WorkSample #Assessment Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    10 mins
  • How One Company Hires Exclusively by Referral Only

    How One Company Hires Exclusively by Referral Only
    Jun 30 2026
    Episode 84 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo explores the radical referral-only hiring model at a mid-sized tech firm in Austin. Lucas breaks down how the company achieved a 60% lower turnover rate and 40% faster time-to-fill by requiring every candidate to come with an internal referral. Luna challenges the model on diversity risks, and Lucas shares surprising data about their demographic outcomes. The episode also covers the three-tiered referral bonus structure and the cultural shift required to make it work. A concrete case for any leader considering tightening their hiring funnel. #ReferralOnlyHiring #EmployeeReferrals #HiringStrategy #TalentAcquisition #TurnoverReduction #TimeToFill #RecruitmentMetrics #DiversityHiring #TechHiring #AustinTech #CompanyCulture #ReferralBonus #HRStrategy #Business #Podcast #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #HiringAndFiring Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    10 mins
  • Why Hiring for Resilience Beats Any Other Quality

    Why Hiring for Resilience Beats Any Other Quality
    Jun 30 2026
    Lucas opens with a story about a software company that hired a candidate with a perfect resume but who quit after three weeks because they couldn't handle a single critical code review. This leads to a discussion about the single best predictor of long-term employee success: resilience. Lucas shares data from a Google study on high-performing teams that found psychological safety was the top factor, and contrasts it with a study from the University of Pennsylvania that showed grit scores outperformed IQ in predicting retention at a call center. Luna challenges whether resilience can really be assessed in an interview, and Lucas walks through a specific question used by a hedge fund: 'Tell me about a time you failed and what you learned.' He cites a study showing that candidates who can describe the failure and the lesson with specific detail are 40% less likely to quit within six months. Luna points out that candidates can rehearse answers, and Lucas counters with a technique called 'laddering' — asking follow-up questions that probe for concrete details the candidate can't fake. The episode closes with Lucas suggesting that in a tight labor market, resilience might be the most undervalued trait. #Hiring #Resilience #PsychologySafety #Grit #InterviewTechnique #EmployeeRetention #GoogleStudy #UniversityOfPennsylvania #CallCenter #HedgeFund #BehavioralInterviewing #Laddering #Performance #CultureFit #TalentAcquisition #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    7 mins
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