Joseph Louis Tan

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Your Hiring Signal — how a hiring manager would score you

I built a diagnostic that scores you

the way a hiring manager would.


Not your portfolio. Not your resume. You.


6 lenses. 18 questions. 3 minutes.


Role & Level Fit — can they tell in 5 seconds where you belong?

Relevance — does your work look like problems they're trying to solve?

Impact & Outcomes — what changed because you were in the room?

Decision Ownership — were you trusted with the hard calls?

Story & Communication — can you talk beyond designers?

Hiring Risk — would they bet on you ramping fast?


I built it because the same thing kept happening with clients.


Experienced designers. 10, 15, 18 years in the industry. Strong work. Real track record.


But when I looked at what a hiring manager would actually see in the first 30 seconds — the signal didn't match the substance.


Not because the substance wasn't there.


Because it was invisible.


The Hiring Signal shows you exactly where.


It is free. Takes 3 minutes. You'll get a radar chart showing where your signal is strong and where it's invisible.


→ https://sendfox.com/lp/1dn0r9


If your score surprises you, that's usually a good sign. It means the gap is in the signal, not the skill.


Joseph

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