Every company touchpoint a candidate or employee encounters shapes their experience of your startup. Which is why your people team should approach the workplace experience as if they’re building a product to release to customers.
Opinion
April 14, 2023
Your offer letters are probably boring — here’s how to change that
Instead of treating the offer letter as a mundane, bureaucratic artefact, what if we designed it with the candidate’s user experience in mind?
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