AI Hiring Guides. Playbooks, not thought-leadership.
Practical guides for recruiters, founders, and HR teams running AI-assisted pipelines. Each one is twelve minutes or less, rubric-first, and written to be acted on — not bookmarked.
Rubric-first · No email gate · Works whether or not you use Vettika
Why these exist
Two in three first-round screens produce no signal worth acting on.
Wrong questions, no rubric, no consistency across interviewers. These guides fix that. Each is a working playbook: specific criteria, real trade-offs, no vendor pitch wrapped in thought-leadership. Written for the recruiter running ten pipelines at once, the founder handling hiring themselves, the compliance officer who needs to know whether that AI tool counts as an AEDT under LL144.
Two guides are published. More are in progress. Every guide is free, openly accessible, and works whether you use Vettika or anything else.
Published guides
Two guides, ready to use.
Each is self-contained. No background reading required.
How to screen engineers fast (without lowering the bar)
The engineering first-round is the wrong place to find your best hire. It is the right place to spend almost no time on the wrong ones. Covers: write a rubric with per-band anchor descriptors before writing the JD, when to use async take-home vs voice screen based on signal, when skipping the live human first-round is defensible, calibration across interviewers, what not to ask in 12 minutes. Includes sample engineering rubric and 4-stage pipeline map.
Local Law 144 checklist for startups (NYC AEDT compliance)
NYC Local Law 144 binds the employer, not the vendor — and there is no employee-count carve-out for startups. Covers: who LL144 actually applies to, what counts as an AEDT, the independent bias audit requirement, the 10-business-day candidate notice rule, nine vendor questions to ask before signing, and a ten-item startup checklist. Not legal advice.
Methodology
How these guides are written.
TL;DR first
Every guide opens with a TL;DR actionable in under 2 minutes. If you only have two minutes, you still leave with something you can use today.
Principle to practical
Sections move from principle to practical. Table of contents with anchor links. No filler between the why and the how.
Built from the product
Source is the product itself — the decisions that went into Vettika, the patterns that work, the trade-offs that were explicitly made. Not a synthesis of other people's blog posts.
Honest about uncertainty
Where the answer is genuinely uncertain — what LL144 enforcement looks like for a 15-person vs 500-person startup — the guide says so and points to the right professional. No false precision.
Coverage
Published and in progress.
Topics in the queue. No timeline promises — guides ship when they are ready to be acted on.
Published
- ✓Engineering screening (rubric writing, anchor descriptors, calibration, async vs voice signal)
- ✓NYC LL144/AEDT compliance (who it applies to, AEDT definition, bias audit, candidate notice, vendor checklist)
In Progress
- —How to write a rubric for non-technical roles
- —Adverse impact ratio for small pipelines
- —The structured interview primer
- —How to evaluate AI recruiting software before you sign
- —Candidate experience: AI screening without triggering a Reddit thread
FAQ
Common questions.
Are the guides specific to Vettika?+
No. Every guide is written to be actionable with any tool or no tool. You will not find a vendor pitch wrapped in methodology — if Vettika is mentioned at all, it is in a specific context where it is directly relevant.
Who writes these?+
Vettika's engineering team and founding team — the same people who built the product and run it against real hiring pipelines. Where the right answer is a professional opinion rather than a product opinion, the guide says so.
How often are guides updated?+
When the underlying regulatory or product landscape changes materially. The LL144 guide will be updated if NYC enforcement guidance changes. The engineering screening guide will be updated when the evidence on async vs live signal shifts.
Is there a mailing list for new guides?+
Not yet. Follow @getvettika when live, or check back at /guides. No email gate, no drip sequence.
Related reading: Glossary · Pricing · AEDT bias audit disclosure
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