Systematic Frontline HiringTake the right people off the market.

Let everyone else keep interviewing.

$299

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Your competitors burn five rounds of interviews and still hire wrong.

You select for traits that take years to form, and you move first. 29 lessons, a kit of 29 documents you keep, a method you can defend line by line.

Max Butakov, the course author, in a neo-brutalist illustration

Why this, and why me

Built by the person who did the hiring, not who wrote about it.

I ran more than 200 interview cycles as the hiring manager. The number alone does not prove hiring quality, so the more important evidence is what followed: I hired and onboarded more than 50 specialists and owned the outcome of every hire. Part of the longest-tenured team was built without a recruiter or HR. The people I hired stayed for more than three years on average. For six years I led the technology function at a 100-plus-person architectural bureau across four offices. The course turns that operating experience into a repeatable hiring system.

Max Butakov, Founder of QUIDNI, former CTO

200+

interview cycles; volume alone does not prove quality

50+

specialists hired and onboarded; part of the team without a recruiter or HR

3+ yr

average tenure of the people I hired

Most hiring fails before the interview, in what you chose to look for.

The systematic hiring operating kit: criteria, decisions and onboarding
01

Kill the vacancy before it costs you

Chapter 0 opens with arithmetic, not a job post. Qualified capacity, not headcount. One role you decide not to open pays for the whole course.

02

Select for what will not develop

Values and slow-forming traits are what you filter on. A skill someone picks up in a year is an onboarding item, never a rejection ground.

03

Build a record that survives the question

Who decided, on what basis, by a rule set before candidates were seen, and who signed off. The paper trail that protects you when a hire goes wrong.

Honest about who this is for.

Get it if

+You own headcount and hire individual contributors
+You hire without a dedicated recruiter or HR
+A hire that looked right on paper has burned you
+You want a process you can defend, not a gut call

Skip it if

×You are hiring executives or people-managers
×You want a sourcing hack to find more candidates
×You will not do the practice; this is a working course

What you walk away with

A working kit, not a certificate you file away.

An evidence system for a traceable hiring decision

Working documents

Not worksheets to throw away. Each one you build for a real role and keep.

The competency library

The real one, with a rating scale. Not a teaching invention.

One assembled kit

The assembly sheet binds every document under a cover sheet, ready to hand over.

Audio + text + slides

Every lesson: a narration player, the full text, and an interactive presentation.

Run on your own team

Your real roster, leave calendar and live projects. The worked case is only the example you check against.

Inside the course

9 chapters, 29 lessons

00

Before opening a vacancy

00-01The hiring need: testing it before opening a vacancy
00-02Team capacity before expanding headcount
01

Hiring as a managed system

01-01Scope and the cost of error
01-02The closed hiring loop
01-03Diagnose the process before drawing conclusions
02

Frontline role profile

02-01Work analysis before writing the profile
02-02Role outcome and working conditions
02-03Entry requirements and development planning
02-04A complete set of success criteria
03

Candidate attraction and initial screening

03-01An honest vacancy and realistic job preview
03-02Candidate attraction channels as role-specific hypotheses
03-03Minimal job-related initial screening
04

Criteria and observable behaviour

04-01From labels to observable workplace behaviour
04-02Strength dosage
04-03Rating scales with behavioural anchors
04-04Accessible and fair application of criteria
05

Evidence system

05-01Structured interview: from criterion to record
05-02Work sample: a project task
05-03Experience claims and candidate data
05-04Reference checks and combining evidence
06

Decision and employment offer

06-01Independent ratings before discussion
06-02Combining methods and reviewing decision risks
06-03A clear employment offer and respectful closure
07

Frontline employee onboarding and performance

07-01Ready before day one
07-02Role milestones and supervised practice
07-0330/60/90 reviews against role milestones
07-04Performance gap: support, recheck and decision boundaries
08

Quality of hire and improvement

08-01Quality of hire: defining it before measuring
08-02Cohorts in an improvement cycle

Stop hiring on a hunch. Build the system once, use it on every hire.

This course vs the alternatives

What you getA $10 to $60 courseThis course, $299A $1,500+ certification
Built by a practitioner who ran the hiring~~
A document kit you keep and reuse~
Run on your own real department
The real competency library, not a demo~
A decision rule and a paper trail that hold up~
Focused on the decision, not sourcing filler~
About 22 hours of real practice~

Questions before you buy

Is this useful if I am not in tech?
Yes. It is built for any department head hiring individual contributors. The worked case is an implementation team, but every lesson you run on your own roster and role.
Do I need a recruiter or an HR team?
No. It is written for the manager who hires without one. You stay the decision-maker; the course gives you the system to do it well.
How fast do I get value?
Chapter 0 can stop a vacancy before you open it, which pays for the course on its own. The full kit is about 22 hours of practice, done on a real role of your own.
Can I share it with my team or colleagues?
The purchase is a personal licence for one person, and you can sign in on up to two of your own devices. Please do not share your login, or copy or resell the materials. Access is watermarked to you and tied to your account. Need seats for a team? Email max@quidni.dev.
How do I hire systematically without an HR team?
You keep the decision and follow a fixed order: test the need with arithmetic before opening the vacancy, define the role from observable criteria, use one structured method for every candidate, and record who decided what, on what basis. The course takes you through each step with working documents you keep.
What is a structured interview, and why does it matter?
A structured interview asks every candidate the same questions about the role's criteria and scores the answers against a pre-set scale. It is the part of hiring that most often fails before the interview, in what you chose to look for. The course gives you the criteria register and the rating scale to run it on your own role.

The complete course. One price.

$299

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+Every lesson: text, narration player, interactive presentation
+The complete document kit and the assembly sheet
+The competency library and its rating scale
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