If the New Hire who joined in January and is already underperforming, here’s what to do.
The hire who aced the interview session in December got the offer – then there was the ‘confident first week’. And then, […]
The 90-Day Employee Who Is Already Deciding Whether to Stay
86% of new hires decide how long they will stay with a company within their first six months. Your January hires have […]
The Promises Your January Hiring Plan Made and What April Looks Like Now
It is April. Pull out the hiring plan you built in January. Not the version you presented to the board. The version […]
What a Great Hiring Partner Looks Like and Why Most Nigerian Companies Settle for Less
You have worked with recruitment firms before. The process is familiar: a briefing call, a promise of strong candidates within a week, […]
The Management Style That Works in a Nigerian Bank Will Destroy a Nigerian Startup
The hire looked exactly right on paper. Twenty years of banking experience. A decade in senior operations. Deep knowledge of the financial […]
What Happens to Your Business When Your Second-Best Person Decides to Become Your Competitor’s First-Best
The conversation that most Nigerian founders treat as a retention failure is actually a competitive event. When a senior product manager leaves […]
Your Nigerian Startup Looks Like It’s Scaling. It Might Just Be Getting Bigger.
At 12 people, your startup moved quickly. Decisions were made in hallway conversations. Everyone knew what everyone else was working on. Problems […]
The Employee Your Nigerian Company Can’t Afford to Lose Is Already Being Recruited
Right now, today, your best product manager probably has three unread LinkedIn messages from recruiters. Your most senior engineer received a call […]
Employer Brand: What Nigerian Tech Companies Look Like to a Candidate Who Googles You
Before any candidate applies to your company, they Google it. They do not Google it the way your marketing team writes about […]
Why Nigerian Companies That Outsource Badly End Up More Exposed Than Before
The letter from the NRS does not arrive with a warning. A Nigerian company has been outsourcing payroll for 18 months. The […]
The Reference Check Nigerian Companies Outsource to HR and Why That’s Backwards
There is a moment in most Nigerian hiring processes that feels like diligence but produces almost nothing useful. HR contacts two or […]
The Hiring Decision Hidden Inside Your Technology Decision
Your next architecture decision is also a hiring decision. Your next framework choice is also a compensation decision. Most Nigerian CTOs do […]