Paid Projects Work Better

It's no secret that traditional interviews, unpaid take home projects, and getting ghosted with an auto-reject email after 5 rounds of interviews is not an enjoyable experience for job seekers.

That's why some of the world's most respected organizations like Linear, Basecamp, and Automattic, have turned to paid projects and work trials as a critical component of their hiring process.

Paid projects can reduce the cost of hiring by 88%, and boast a .68 validity coefficient when used in conjunction with structured interviews.
Linear, —who requires all candidates to do a work trial— is
reporting 96% retention rates!

It's no secret that traditional interviews, unpaid take home projects, and getting ghosted with an auto-reject email after 5 rounds of interviews is
an awful experience for job seekers.

That's why some of the world's most respected organizations like Linear, Basecamp, and Automattic, have turned to paid projects and work trials as a critical component of their
hiring process.

Paid projects reduce the cost of hiring by 88%, and boast a .68 validity coefficient when used in conjunction with structured interviews.
Some companies using this approach are
reporting 96% retention rates!

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Transform Your Hiring Process

Paidprojects help companies streamline their hiring process by automating much of the onboarding work associated with running a paid project, including:
adding them to tools, generating detailed project briefs, gathering feedback from the hiring team, sharing it with candidates who get passed on, and even sending out offer letters to candidates.

Paid projects are a scientifically proven way to predict the future performance of a candidate, boasting a .68 validity coefficient compared to .33 for
traditional interviews alone, which present a significant hurdle for
Gen Z job seekers.
Read more about the science behind these findings.

Paid projects are a scientifically proven way to predict the future performance of a candidate, boasting a .54 validity coefficient compared to .33 for traditional interviews, which present a significant hurdle for Gen Z job seekers.
Read more about the science behind
these findings.

Reduce hiring costs by 88%

Not only do our paid projects make hiring less expensive, they also reduce employee turnover, making it a critical part of your companies success.

Reduce hiring costs by 88%

Not only do our paid projects make hiring less expensive, they also reduce employee turnover, making it a critical part of your companies success.

Reduce hiring costs by 88%

Not only do our paid projects make hiring less expensive, they also reduce employee turnover, making it a critical part of your companies success.

Reduce hiring costs by 88%

Not only do our paid projects make hiring less expensive, they also reduce employee turnover, making it a critical part of your companies success.

Schedule working sessions

Candidates use our purpose built calendar syncing and integration to schedule time with the team for scope calls, working sessions, and presentations.

Schedule working sessions

Candidates use our purpose built calendar syncing and integration to schedule time with the team for scope calls, working sessions, and presentations.

Schedule working sessions

Candidates use our purpose built calendar syncing and integration to schedule time with the team for scope calls, working sessions, and presentations.

Schedule working sessions

Candidates use our purpose built calendar syncing and integration to schedule time with the team for scope calls, working sessions, and presentations.

Automate meaningful feedback

If after the project is complete you decide to not hire a candidate, our system will summarize and send rich and meaningful feedback to them.

Automate meaningful feedback

If after the project is complete you decide to not hire a candidate, our system will summarize and send rich and meaningful feedback to them.

Automate meaningful feedback

If after the project is complete you decide to not hire a candidate, our system will summarize and send rich and meaningful feedback to them.

Automate meaningful feedback

If after the project is complete you decide to not hire a candidate, our system will summarize and send rich and meaningful feedback to them.

Seamless Integrations

Connect your Slack and Figma for super fast and seamless onboarding, getting candidates started on projects within a few hours.

Seamless Integrations

Connect your Slack and Figma for super fast and seamless onboarding, getting candidates started on projects within a few hours.

Seamless Integrations

Connect your Slack and Figma for super fast and seamless onboarding, getting candidates started on projects within a few hours.

Seamless Integrations

Connect your Slack and Figma for super fast and seamless onboarding, getting candidates started on projects within a few hours.

Quickly analyze team ratings

Watch data flowing in real time as your hiring team rates and reviews candidates after they complete tasks assigned to them.

Quickly analyze team ratings

Watch data flowing in real time as your hiring team rates and reviews candidates after they complete tasks assigned to them.

Quickly analyze team ratings

Watch data flowing in real time as your hiring team rates and reviews candidates after they complete tasks assigned to them.

Quickly analyze team ratings

Watch data flowing in real time as your hiring team rates and reviews candidates after they complete tasks assigned to them.

Automated Project Briefs

Our powerful LLM analyzes your company and role and generates custom project brief templates that you can edit and approve.

Automated Project Briefs

Our powerful LLM analyzes your company and role and generates custom project brief templates that you can edit and approve.

Automated Project Briefs

Our powerful LLM analyzes your company and role and generates custom project brief templates that you can edit and approve.

Automated Project Briefs

Our powerful LLM analyzes your company and role and generates custom project brief templates that you can edit and approve.

Paid projects in the renaissance.

I was just reading a fascinating book called "Creativity, the psychology of discovery and invention" by the great psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and came across this section outlining the hiring process for the design of the Gates of Paradise, a masterpiece of renaissance art in Florence Italy, circa 1402.

"From the dozens of drawings submitted the board chose five finalists—Brunelleschi and Ghiberti among them. The finalists on the short list were given a year to finish a bronze mock-up of one of the door panels. The subject was to be “The Sacrifice of Isaac” and had to include at least one angel and one sheep in addition to Abraham and his son. During that year all five finalists were paid handsomely by the board for time and materials. In 1402 the jury reconvened to consider the new entries and selected Ghiberti’s panel, which showed technical excellence as well as a wonderfully natural yet classical composition."

Wow! What an incredible snapshot of how little creative work has changed over the last 623 years!

5 finalists, mockup-ups, design prompts, constraints, requirements, technical excellence, composition… change the setting and the medium and this could easily be a modern design brief for a digital product!

Reading this story was just another confirmation of our hypothesis that paying designers and creatives for their work is not a new or novel thing, but rather a powerful and timeless testament of humankind's appreciation of beauty.

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