Guides
How this work actually goes
Reference notes on the processes we spend our time inside — written to be useful whether or not you ever talk to us, and kept current rather than posted and abandoned.
Staffing and recruitment
Where our own experience is. Written for people running a desk, by someone who has.
Your database is a better source than your job board
Most agencies pay a job board every year to find strangers, while sitting on thousands of people who already know them. The reason that list goes unused is specific, and it is not that matching is hard.
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Screening CVs against a brief without a black-box score
Most screening tools answer the wrong question. They tell you how well a CV matches a brief, when what a recruiter needs to know is what the CV actually evidences and what it simply does not say.
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Where a recruitment desk actually loses its week
Ask a recruiter where their time goes and they will say sourcing. Watch the desk for a week and it is rarely sourcing. It is the packaging, chasing and re-keying around it.
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Finance and operations
The same underlying work pointed at a different process — mostly for Indian SMEs, where matching and reconciliation eat the same hours that packaging and chasing do on a recruitment desk.
Three-way matching, and why it breaks in small manufacturing
Matching the purchase order to the goods receipt to the invoice is the oldest control in payables. It is also the one most small factories quietly abandon, and for understandable reasons.
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Purchase invoice reconciliation against GSTR-2B
Every month, the purchases in your books and the invoices in your GSTR-2B fail to agree, and somebody spends days working out why. Most of that work is mechanical, and a specific part of it is not.
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Integrating with Tally without replacing it
Tally holds the books for a very large share of Indian businesses, and it is usually the system people most want to connect and least want to replace. Both of those instincts are right.
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No numbers we have not measured
Writing of this kind usually runs on statistics nobody can source — firms save forty percent, automation cuts errors by half. You will not find those here. Where a figure would help and we do not have one, the text says so, and where a claim needs evidence it links to a worked example you can click through instead of asking to be believed.
Recognise one of these?
If a guide here describes something happening in your business, that is usually a good sign it is worth an hour of conversation.