The Truth About Hiring Days

Hiring days promise speed, efficiency, and better outcomes. But do they deliver? We've run enough of them to know what works — and where they go horribly wrong.

What We'll Cover

• •The case for hiring days — why companies are compressing multi-week processes into a single day
• •The good — when hiring days work brilliantly and the outcomes that justify the effort
• •The bad — the logistics, candidate experience pitfalls, and internal alignment failures that trip teams up
• •The ugly — real stories from hiring days that went sideways, and what we learned
• •The playbook — what we'd do differently now, and when a hiring day is (and isn't) the right call

Who Should Attend

• •Heads of Talent, People & Culture, and TA leaders considering hiring days
• •Hiring managers and founders running high-volume or time-sensitive hiring
• •Revenue leaders who need to scale teams fast without sacrificing quality
• •Anyone who's been told "just run a hiring day" and wants to know if it's worth it

Your Speakers

Cameron Morgan is Head of Recruitment at Pointer Strategy. He's designed and run hiring days across multiple industries, from startup blitzes to enterprise assessment centres. He knows what breaks and what scales.

Ricky Pearl is the Founder of Pointer Strategy, where he's worked with 200+ GTM teams in APAC on strategy, hiring, and implementation.

Format

• •30 minutes — tight, honest, no fluff
• •Live on Zoom and LinkedIn Live
• •Part of the Performance Engine series — Culture & Capacity
• •Open to the GTM ANZ Community and the public

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