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Long-form HR analysis. Weekly publishing.

Long-form pieces live on Substack. Shorter weekly posts run on LinkedIn every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 09:30 Gulf Standard Time. Both are free.

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The bad-hire iceberg: visible 30 per cent, hidden 170 per cent

A USD 150,000 role costs USD 300,000 when you get it wrong. The visible 30 per cent comes to around USD 45,000. The hidden 170 per cent sits in lost productivity, manager time, team drag and replacement search.

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LinkedIn

Seven HRBP metrics your CEO will actually read

Most HRBP scorecards drown in thirty or more KPIs. Seven hold up across industry, function and geography. If you can move these, you can defend any people decision in the room.

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LinkedIn

AI hiring audit: six checkpoints before you deploy

Training data demographics. Feature selection. Scoring distribution. Override rate. Complaint patterns. Model card. Pass these or stop deploying.

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LinkedIn

40 nationalities, one policy: writing for the team you have

A Dubai employer with forty nationalities cannot write policy the way a single-market HQ does. Three adjustments do most of the work: B2 reading level, no idioms, examples in three currencies.

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The full archive lives on Substack at substack.com/@hannafer. New issues land Sunday morning Gulf time.