Prove-It Hiring
Hire from real work, not resumes.
A good resume and interview don't always tell you who can do the job. We help you make better hiring decisions by identifying the skills that matter, seeing candidates put them into practice, and training your team to use the process for future hires.
Define what good looks like
We turn your job description into a practical guide for hiring and onboarding, prioritize and weight the skills that matter most, and build a scorecard your team can use to evaluate candidates consistently.
Test with real work
Instead of relying on resumes and ‘Tell me about a time…’ interview questions, we create short, custom work samples based on the real job. You see what they can do, and they see what the work is like.
Train your team to hire well
We train your team to conduct structured interviews, use the scorecard to evaluate candidates consistently, and run the process independently for future hires.
“Kokoro’s work-based samples made it easy to quickly and objectively evaluate candidates to see their actual capability. Kokoro has saved me countless hours and dollars in the process, delivering a high ROI.”
“Unlike other services, Kokoro provides hands-on support to coach and equip teams to implement and replicate the process independently.”
“This is the most beneficial hiring process I’ve ever experienced. I plan to stay here a long time.”
What you walk away with
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Role guide
Your job description turned into a practical guide for hiring and onboarding, with the skills that matter most ranked and weighted.
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Custom work samples
Short tasks built from the real job, so candidates show you what they can do.
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Interview questions
Structured questions tied to the skills that matter, asked the same way of every candidate.
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Scorecard
One shared way for your team to rate candidates and compare them fairly.
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A team that can do it again
Your team runs the process themselves for the next hire.
“We landed on two candidates, one who had less traditional credentials and the other who had a great resume listing the types of things that we wanted. To our astonishment, the less credentialed applicant had excellent organization and communication skills exhibited in their work sample. We dodged a bullet and hired an employee that will be a force in the company’s future.”
Free · about 2 minutes
Before you post the job
Six quick questions about one role you're about to fill. You'll see how clear the role is, what a poor hire could cost, and what to fix before the post goes up.
Let's talk about what you're working on.
A short call to hear what's going on and whether we can help. We work with a few organizations at a time, so each one gets our full attention.