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Looks Good on Paper

Looks Good on Paper

著者： Anita Chauhan
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Looks Good on Paper flips hiring on its head. Hosted by Andrew Wood and Anita Chauhan, we dive into why CVs and "perfect fits" are overrated. Through fun, insightful conversations with industry experts, we explore how skills, potential, and real experience should be the focus of hiring... not what looks good on paper.

Quick, candid, and packed with actionable insights, we’re here to rewrite the rules of hiring, one episode at a time.


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  • We show up at work as our full selves. CVs won't let us.

    We show up at work as our full selves. CVs won't let us.
    2026/07/15

    We took a camera around RecFest 2026 and asked one question over and over: what's something about yourself that would never show up on a CV? We got a singer. A horse rider. Someone who runs mountain ultras. A former professional bodybuilder. Someone who grows fruit and vegetables. Someone who is, in their own words, expert at crawling around on the floor with their one-year-old.

    And then, from the hiring side of the fence, we got this: I would hire people who are intensely curious, because they're the people who learn best, but I can never see that on a CV without having a conversation. Which is the whole problem in one breath. The trait hiring leaders want most is the trait candidates are trained to leave off. Both sides of the market are reaching for the same thing and the paper is in the way. This is the RecFest Edition supercut, recorded live inside Willo World, and it opens the new season.

    What you'll learn

    - Why the trait hiring leaders want most is the one candidates hide
    - What people actually say when you ask them a better question
    - Why personality, working style and motivation don't survive the page
    - How a shy candidate becomes the most interesting person in the room, four questions in
    - What changes when the conversation comes before the filter


    GUEST
    Recorded live at RecFest 2026 with Will Mason-Jebb (Connectr), Junead Zaman (Caraffi), Kanwar Kholi (Booking.com), Christina Messaritaki (Yodeck), Dan Hackett (Amazon), Hannah Crawford (Tribepad), Ines Castro (Tribepad), Paula Ryan (Primark), and Daen Fox on the field

    YOUR HOST
    Anita Chauhan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitachauhan/

    LISTEN & FOLLOW
    https://looksgoodonpaper.buzzsprout.com/

    POWERED BY WILLO
    https://www.willo.video/looks-good-on-paper

    CONNECT WITH US
    https://www.linkedin.com/company/10170893 https://www.youtube.com/@looksgoodonpaperpodcast

    If this one made you think about your own hiring process, share it with the person who runs it.

    Looks Good on Paper is a hiring and careers podcast hosted by Anita Chauhan and powered by Willo. In this RecFest 2026 special, recorded live inside the Willo World activation, talent leaders and recruiters from Amazon, Booking.com, Primark, Tribepad, Connectr, Caraffi and Yodeck answer one question: what would never show up on your CV? The answers reveal why intense curiosity, personality, working style and motivation are the traits hiring leaders say they want most and the traits the CV is least able to carry.

    Show Resources

    • Willo: willo.video - The most cost-effective way to screen candidates at scale. Interview candidates anywhere & at any time
    • CV Free Toolkit: cvfree.me/join - Break up with the CV and get everything you need to modernize your hiring approach with skills-based assessments
    • Anita Chauhan: linkedin.com/in/anitachauhan - Connect with the host
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    3 分
  • The CV is the global currency for jobs. And it's fundamentally flawed.

    The CV is the global currency for jobs. And it's fundamentally flawed.
    2026/07/08

    There is almost no business process on earth that works the same way in every country. Payroll differs. Contracts differ. Even the working week differs. But post a job anywhere in the world, and the price of entry is identical: hand over a CV. In this episode, Willo co-founder and CEO Euan Cameron, in the guest chair for the first time in three seasons, makes the case that hiring's only truly global convention is also its most broken one. He tells the real founding story behind Willo: what it's like to be dyslexic in a hiring process built entirely around text, and the moment he realized millions of candidates were being filtered out by a format, not by their ability. From there, the conversation gets practical and pointed: the single biggest hiring mistake companies keep making, the bias that survives even inside proudly progressive teams, what six years of running a company that has never once asked for a CV actually looks like, and what changes first, and slowest, when an enterprise hiring team finally starts reading signal instead of paper.

    What you'll learn: → The founding story: how being dyslexic in a text-based hiring world became the reason Willo exists → Why past experience is the weakest predictor hiring teams still treat as the strongest → The "safe bet" bias that quietly survives inside even the most progressive companies → What actually breaks, and what quietly just works, when you remove the CV from your process completely → How Willo Insights turns overwhelming candidate volume into evidence, so the right person never slips through for being quiet

    GUEST
    Euan Cameron, Co-founder & CEO, Willo
    https://uk.linkedin.com/in/euanacameron

    YOUR HOST
    Anita Chauhan
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitachauhan/

    LISTEN & FOLLOW
    Buzzsprout: https://looksgoodonpaper.buzzsprout.com/
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@looksgoodonpaperpodcast

    POWERED BY WILLO
    https://www.willo.video/looks-good-on-paper

    CONNECT WITH US
    Willo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/10170893

    If this episode changed how you think about a single step in your hiring process, send it to the person who owns that step, and follow the show so the rest of Season 3 finds you.

    Looks Good on Paper is a hiring and careers podcast hosted by Anita Chauhan and powered by Willo. In this episode, Willo co-founder and CEO Euan Cameron explains why the CV functions as a flawed global currency for jobs, why relying on past experience is the biggest mistake in modern hiring, which hidden biases persist inside progressive companies, and how Willo Insights helps enterprise hiring teams evaluate every candidate at scale using evidence instead of resumes.

    Show Resources

    • Willo: willo.video - The most cost-effective way to screen candidates at scale. Interview candidates anywhere & at any time
    • CV Free Toolkit: cvfree.me/join - Break up with the CV and get everything you need to modernize your hiring approach with skills-based assessments
    • Anita Chauhan: linkedin.com/in/anitachauhan - Connect with the host
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    31 分
  • Athletes try out. Why don't your candidates?

    Athletes try out. Why don't your candidates?
    2026/06/24
    Every athlete who makes a team has to prove they can play. They run drills. They scrimmage. They perform under pressure while someone watches. But in hiring, we skip all of that. We scan a resume for six seconds, run a few conversations, and make a six-figure investment based on how someone talks about work they've done, not whether they can actually do the work in front of them.The companies still making this mistake aren't doing it because they don't know better. They're doing it because their entire process was designed around a different era of work, and most of them haven't audited it since AI started changing what "job-ready" actually means.Alan Boyer has been on both sides of this problem for decades. He's a former CMO and senior marketing executive at AT&T, Coca-Cola, and Equifax, a management professor and curriculum architect, and the founder of iThrive Learning Architects. His work sits at the intersection of corporate leadership development and higher education, focused on building the human capabilities that AI cannot replicate. In this episode of Looks Good on Paper, he breaks down why hiring is still built around conversation instead of demonstration, what human skills are emerging above traditional soft skills, and why the gap between graduate readiness and employer expectations is getting wider, not smaller.What you'll learn: why hiring based on conversational performance instead of job performance produces high washout rates, the executive referral bias that nobody talks about and why it puts hiring managers in an impossible position, why "teaching with AI is not the same as working with AI" and what that means for screening, what human capabilities are emerging above soft skills including cognitive power, systems intelligence, and global fluency, and how the gap between what job descriptions promise and what day one actually looks like is setting candidates up to fail.GUEST Alan Boyer — Founder, iThrive Learning Architects LinkedIn -> [GUEST LINKEDIN URL]YOUR HOST Anita Chauhan — Host, Looks Good on Paper LinkedIn -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitachauhan/In this episode: 0:00 Introduction 0:55 Alan's background across Fortune 500s and higher education 1:59 The biggest hiring mistake: relying on a broken process 2:26 The tryout analogy: why athletes perform but candidates just talk 3:11 AI is accelerating work and companies aren't keeping up 4:52 Where performance-based screening actually happens today 5:56 Human capabilities above soft skills: what AI can't automate 7:30 Hidden biases: cultural, regional, school, brand, and executive referral 8:15 What happens when a C-suite referral skips the process 10:07 What hiring looks like without CVs: chaos or clarity? 11:20 The resume isn't the villain. The process around it is. 12:36 How early careers candidates actually get seen 13:36 Graduate readiness: why companies say new hires aren't ready 14:53 Hiring doesn't stop after the contract is signed 16:12 Quick tips for screening early careers hiresLISTEN & FOLLOW Spotify -> https://open.spotify.com/show/0dbfz6y0tMq3crViHQD66H Apple Podcasts -> https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1625835562 All episodes -> https://looksgoodonpaper.buzzsprout.comPOWERED BY WILLO Hire humans, not resumes -> https://www.willo.video/looks-good-on-paperCONNECT WITH US LinkedIn -> https://www.linkedin.com/company/10170893If this episode changed how you think about hiring, share it with one person who needs to hear it.Most hiring processes evaluate candidates based on how well they present in conversation, not on whether they can perform the actual work the role requires. Performance-based hiring, where candidates demonstrate capability through structured tasks and real scenarios, consistently produces stronger hires and lower turnover than resume screening and behavioural interviews alone. As AI accelerates the pace of work, the human capabilities that matter most, including cognitive power, systems intelligence, and the ability to adapt to ambiguity, are not the same as the soft skills companies have traditionally screened for, and most hiring processes have not been updated to reflect the difference.Show ResourcesWillo: willo.video - The most cost-effective way to screen candidates at scale. Interview candidates anywhere & at any timeCV Free Toolkit: cvfree.me/join - Break up with the CV and get everything you need to modernize your hiring approach with skills-based assessmentsAnita Chauhan: linkedin.com/in/anitachauhan - Connect with the host
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    19 分
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