by kedapex | Mar 24, 2026 | Hiring
Headline: The First Thing I Do When a Company Has No HR at All When I step into a company where the HR function is nonexistent, many expect me to immediately start hiring or implementing complex software. But that’s starting at the finish line. The first thing I do is...
by kedapex | Feb 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
Most founders I talk to blame the market. Candidates are passive. Salaries are too high. Good people are impossible to find. Sometimes that’s true. But after auditing the hiring process at a dozen companies, I can tell you: the bottleneck is almost always...
by kedapex | Jan 10, 2026 | People Ops
My job is done when I’m no longer needed. That’s not a modest thing to say – it’s the actual goal from day one. When I come into a company to build their HR function, I’m not trying to become indispensable. I’m trying to make myself...
by kedapex | Dec 15, 2025 | Onboarding
They thought onboarding was the easy part. They’d done the hard work: built a hiring process, structured their interviews, and made good decisions. Ten offers accepted. Ten people starting over the next six weeks. Then reality hit. What nobody tells you about...
by kedapex | Oct 3, 2025 | Onboarding
When the founder called me, they had three open roles, zero job descriptions, and a hiring “process” that consisted of a WhatsApp chat and gut feeling. Three weeks later, they made their first structured hire. Here’s exactly what we did. Week 1: Stop...
