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Looks Good on Paper
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.
Looks Good on Paper
Latest Episodes
Why more interviews mean worse hires, with Kanwar Kohli of Booking.com
Hiring bias, AI screening and skills-based hiring at global scale, with Kanwar Kohli, Senior Leader for Global Talent Delivery at Booking.com.Most organisations respond to hiring risk the same way. They add a stage. Then an interviewer. ...
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Why hiring plans fail, with Leo Harrison of Chapter 2
Workforce planning, hiring capacity and the end of the CV, with Leo Harrison, founder and CEO of Chapter 2.Most hiring plans are modelled around the talent team. The funnel gets loaded, capacity gets mapped, monthly targets get set, and ...
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Years of experience is not a skill
Most hiring teams have an audit for bias. They check the language in the job ad, they structure the interview, they train the panel. Almost none of them audit the requirements themselves. Cary Sparrow thinks that is where the real damage is bei...
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I don't read CVs and I don't hire locally
Most hiring leaders will tell you they hire for skills. Then they open a CV, scan for a university name, check a location field, and quietly filter out everyone who lives more than a commute away. Gerard Holland stopped participating in that pr...
Make sure they pass the vibe check - Recfest UK 2026
A CV is the one document where people are trusted to describe themselves, and it is also the one place they are most careful to leave things out. Not the boring things. The real ones. The cricket obsession, the makeup expertise, the 28 years of...
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