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Approve the business requirement
Confirm the demand source, essential skills, number of openings, budget context and target date.
Accountable team: Hiring manager
USE-CASE PLAYBOOK
Connect hiring to delivery readiness
Carry the business requirement from requisition to a ready-to-deploy employee.
Explore the workflow
THE OPERATING QUESTION
When the next decision cannot wait.
Confirmed or sufficiently qualified demand reveals a skill gap that cannot be met through suitable internal capacity.
A job title and opening count do not explain the work a new hire must perform. Connect the requisition to the required capability, realistic joining window and delivery context. Keep recruiting and resource teams informed when those conditions change.
For Talent acquisition, HR, hiring managers and resource teams.
WORKED EXAMPLE
Put the decision in context.
Illustrative scenario: a project needs a consultant who can lead discovery workshops, not only configure a system. The hiring manager adds workshop leadership to the assessment criteria. An accepted offer then remains tentative for deployment until joining and required readiness steps are confirmed.
A PRACTICAL WAY FORWARD
Four steps. An owner at every handoff.
02
Assess against the work
Use consistent screening and interview evidence tied to the essential criteria. Update the brief when delivery needs change.
Accountable team: Recruiting and interview panel
03
Track offer and joining readiness
Keep acceptance, documents, verification and confirmed joining separate. Assign outstanding steps to named owners.
Accountable team: Recruiting and HR
04
Transfer verified context
Carry skills, organizational details and readiness into the employee record. Let resource management confirm allocation against demand.
Accountable team: HR and resource manager
HANDLE THE EXCEPTION
The path is rarely a straight line.
If the project date or required skill changes, review the requisition and candidate communication. Do not continue hiring against an obsolete brief.
WHAT SHOULD CHANGE
A decision people can act on.
A clearer handoff from approved demand to workforce readiness. An accepted offer and a confirmed deployment remain different milestones.
Explore the Clousys capabilities →EVIDENCE, NOT ACTIVITY
Know what you will measure.
Time in stage
Elapsed time at each recruiting stage, with reasons for delays.
Joining readiness
Accepted candidates with required pre-joining steps complete.
Demand-to-deployment alignment
New employees assigned to suitable work against the approved requirement.
PUT IT INTO PRACTICE
Make the next operating review more useful.
Take the framework to your team. Bring one live workflow, its owners and the evidence behind the next decision.
