Score your current hiring process
Before you change anything, find out where you actually stand. Rate your most recent real hire — not the one you wish you'd run — on each line from 1 (didn't happen) to 5 (done well and written down). One line: the role had a written definition of success — specific outcomes, not a duties list — before the post went live.
Reader Scorecard
The five lines aren't random — they map to the five stages the book builds: define, post, screen, interview, decide. Your lowest-scoring line shows you where to focus most.
Working rules for the whole system
The AI drafts and summarizes; you verify and decide. Never let a tool reject or rank a candidate without a human reading the underlying evidence. Treat confident output as unverified until you check it against a source, and give the co-pilot your standards — never ask it to invent them.
What to hand the co-pilot
- Drafting from your inputs. Turning a scorecard you wrote into a first-draft job post, or generating interview questions tied to a skill you named.
- Summarizing volume. Condensing a long resume, a stack of applications, or scattered interview notes into a structured, comparable shape.
- Restructuring and reformatting. Converting a messy outcome list into a clean rubric, or rewriting a rambling post into tight sections.
- Comparing against criteria you supply. Checking a draft post for jargon, or lining up three candidates against the same five requirements you defined.
Decision Matrix
The split has two axes: how repeatable and rule-bound the task is, and how high the stakes are if the AI gets it wrong. Drafting a post is repeatable and low-stakes when you review it — a good fit for the co-pilot. Making the final hire is judgment-heavy and high-stakes — yours alone.