Practical writing on HR process, management, training and software for founders and HR teams at Indian startups and growing businesses.
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Portfolios show the best work a candidate ever did. This guide shows how to design a short paid or fair test, score it and decide, so hires match what you actually need.
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A practical process for a programme head to move engineers between client programmes with fair notice, a handover plan, client consent and no loss of delivery.
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A founder's guide to hiring freshers and running a first-year programme: campus or open drives, a screening round, a training plan by quarter, mentors and checkpoints.
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A delivery head's plan for the notice period: what to ask the leaver in the first week, how to capture knowledge, when to cut access and how to keep the client informed.
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How to manage a mixed team of employees and freelancers fairly: who instructs whom, what to share, how to explain pay differences and how to keep morale steady.
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A plain method to compare a freelancer and a full-time hire using your own figures, hidden costs and a sheet you can reuse, without inventing numbers.
7 min readRead articleDecide ownership, credits, portfolio use and non-solicit questions before a freelance project begins, with a decision sheet you can adapt for your studio or agency.
6 min readRead articleA repeatable routine for hiring from freelance platforms: write a brief that filters, run a paid trial, stage access to your data and review work before you release more.
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How a digital agency can track utilisation and billable hours to plan capacity and pricing, with role-based ranges, a weekly routine and a review template that avoids policing.
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A plain guide to a one-hour technical round for embedded and firmware hires: what to test, what to skip, how to score it and how to keep the candidate's day short.
7 min readRead articleHow an operations head can write simple, enforceable rules for who enters the lab, who takes devices out and how client prototypes are logged, locked and returned.
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How a delivery head can set fair goals when a project runs for many months with little to show: proof points, leading signals, check-ins and honest review notes.
6 min readRead articleTell us what is slowing your team down. We’ll help you find a practical way forward, starting with a conversation.
