What this can't fix.

It doesn't fix pay below market, and it doesn't fix a punishing schedule, a downturn, or a bad foreman.

An honest preview of a bad job drives people away, accurately.

Which means this only works at a company that already treats people reasonably well, and that's a hard limit on who I'm able to sell to. It's also the best thing about this business, because the filter runs itself.

Who this isn't for

• Companies hiring two people a year. No volume, no signal, nothing to measure.
• Companies in a layoff or a slow stretch. Come back when you're staffing up.
• Anyone who wants a polished hype reel. This is the opposite of that, on purpose.
• Anyone whose people leave over pay, schedule, or supervision.

One more thing, and I'd rather say it now than in month two. Fewer people will probably apply, and that's the intended effect — you're paying to lose the ones who were going to quit in three weeks, before they've cost you anything.

A smaller stack of applications where most of them know what they signed up for beats a big stack where a third wash out by Friday of week one.