I spent 8 years deciding who got hired. Now I am giving you the system.
I am Elodie. I built The Hiring System for the founder I met over and over again at Randstad: smart, busy, doing too much, and one bad hire away from a real problem.
How I got here
I joined Randstad in my early twenties thinking recruiting was about reading résumés. It is not. It is about asking the right questions, in the right order, and being honest with yourself about what the answers mean.
Over 8 years I screened thousands of candidates and placed hundreds of them into roles ranging from receptionist to head of operations. The process that worked was always the same: clear role, structured interview, scored answers, real reference checks.
Then I started running into a different kind of person at networking events: the small business owner. Two employees, ten employees, fifty. No HR, no recruiter, and a hiring story that was almost always the same — they had hired on instinct, it had not worked out, and they did not know how to do it differently.
The honest truth is, what they needed was not magic. It was the same boring, structured process I used every day, stripped of corporate jargon and packaged so they could actually use it. So I made it.
What I believe about hiring
Hiring is a system, not a gut feeling
Gut feel is the most expensive way to hire. A simple, repeatable process beats it every time, and you do not need an HR team to run one.
The job ad is half the work
If your ad attracts the wrong applicants, no interview process can save you. Filtering starts before anyone hits apply.
Structured beats clever
Asking every candidate the same questions, scored the same way, will out-predict the most charismatic interviewer in the room.
Small businesses deserve better than recruiter fees
You do not need to spend $5,000 on a recruiter to hire well. You need a system, a few good templates, and the confidence to use them.
Who the system is for
- ✓Founders and owners with 1 to 50 employees
- ✓Anyone making 1 to 10 hires a year, without an in-house recruiter
- ✓People who are tired of crossing their fingers after every offer
- ✓Owners who want a process they can hand to a future ops or HR hire
Ready to hire like you have done it a hundred times?
Start with the free scorecard, or jump straight into the system.