Hire – FocalShift

Who is available — and what they have already finished.

Two questions, not a job advertDescribe the work the way you would describe it to a friend, say what kind of business you are, and let your Maven do the looking.

A record, not a document about themselvesEverybody in the pool put themselves there, and each of them carries the collaborations the network has verified.

Your team can weigh inSend a candidate to a decision room — the advice is kept on the record, and the owner still decides.

Maven adds this one: every other card here is about what you can do yourself — this is the one for the part you cannot, and the people who have already proved they can.

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Say what the job is, and your Maven reads the for-hire pool — verified collaborations and work people have actually finished — then makes the introduction.

Two questions instead of a job advertWhat you need done, in the words you would use to a friend, and the kind of business you are. Nothing to write up, nothing to word carefully, and no keywords to guess at. Your Maven takes it from there and comes back with a shortlist and its reasons.

A pool where the record does the talkingEveryone listed is there because they chose to be, and each row carries what they do, where they work and the collaborations on the network that have been verified. You are reading a record of work rather than a document somebody wrote about themselves.

Work already moving, with a part of it openBeneath the pool sit the roles members have left open on their own live projects — named, attached to the project and to the person running it. Hiring is not the only way in, and being available is not the only way to be useful.

The top of the Hire screen, headed agent matchmaking. On the left, the question — who are you looking to hire — over a line explaining that answering two questions sets your Maven searching the for-hire pool by verified collaborations and finished work rather than by résumés, and that it brokers the introduction afterwards. Beneath that the two questions themselves: a box for what you are looking to hire for, showing the kind of thing somebody might type into it, and a row of trades to say which one you are in, with one of them chosen. Under them the indigo control that asks Maven to recommend, and beside it the plainer offer to browse the pool yourself, noting that Maven reads the same record either way. On the right, a ring of members drawn as hexagons around one at the centre with dotted lines running between them, over a note that some of them are already people this member knows and that following more grows the map, and an invitation to open any of their cards. The whole band is set in the deep navy the product uses for this screen in both themes.

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The people who are available, and the work they have already finished.

Hiring on a network is meant to be the easy version and usually is not: you post something, strangers answer it, and you are back to reading claims people wrote about themselves. Hire skips the advert. You say what needs doing in your own words, say what kind of business you are, and your Maven goes and reads the pool for you.

What it reads is a record rather than a document. Everyone in the for-hire pool put themselves there, and each of them carries the work they have shipped on the network and the collaborations that have been verified through it. Nobody is ranked because they paid to be, and the shortlist arrives with its reasoning attached, so you can disagree with the reasoning rather than with a mystery.

Then the decision stops being yours alone if you would rather it were not. Any candidate can be sent to your team as a decision — the question, the advice and who said what, kept on the record — and you still make the call at the end of it. A hire is one of the few choices a small business makes that it has to be able to explain later.

And the same screen works from the other end. Members leave roles open on projects that are already running, named and attached to the person running them, so somebody who wants in does not have to wait to be found. Being listed is a switch you hold: you are in the pool because you turned it on, and you leave it the same way.

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