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, […]
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 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 […]
Your Last-Mile Delivery Problem Is Actually a People Problem
You invested in the tracking software. You upgraded the route optimisation. You rolled out GPS for the entire fleet. And your customer […]
The Interview Performance That Has Nothing to Do With Job Performance
You have sat across from this person. The answers were precise, well-structured, and delivered with exactly the right mix of confidence and […]
What a Recession Does to Nigerian Tech Hiring and How to Prepare Before It Arrives
Economists are calling it a “Great Freeze.” Workers are not leaving. Companies are not expanding. The talent market has entered a holding […]
Why Nigerian Founders Make Their Worst Hiring Decisions When the Business Is Going Well
Your investors did not give you capital to hire. They gave you capital to build a business. This distinction matters most in […]
More Engineers Will Not Fix a Product Problem
The roadmap is slipping. Standups reveal blockers that carry over week after week. The product team is pushing back on timelines engineering […]
The Slow Hire Is Not the Safe Hire
There is a belief held quietly but firmly inside many Nigerian boardrooms: that taking time to hire is a mark of seriousness. […]
Building Your First HR Function: What Nigerian Startups Get Wrong
At some point between your fifth and fifteenth hire, someone says the words that signal you have officially outgrown the spreadsheet: ‘We […]
The Series A to Series B Hiring Trap: Why Funding Rounds Create Hiring Mistakes
The wire lands. Your Series A just closed. The press release goes out. LinkedIn lights up. For about 72 hours, everything feels […]