One Great Hire Changes Your Trajectory

NTP Talent · The Hiring Funnel Diagnostic


The best people rarely slip away for lack of talent in the market. They slip through the leaks in your hiring process. Score your hiring funnel across six stages in seven minutes, and get the one fix that will change your next hire.
7 minutes. Free. No account needed to start.
From James MacDonald, founder of NTP Talent. Ten years in tech recruitment and hundreds of hires placed across Australia.
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Tech leaders advised
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Tech roles placed last year

Why it matters

The Best Talent Is Worth the Fight


An A-player does not just do their own job well. They lift the standard of everyone around them, make the next hire easier, and compound over years. In a key technical role, one great hire is the difference between a team that ships and a team that stalls.
A great hire

Raises the whole team

  • Lifts the standard of everyone around them

  • Makes the next hire easier to attract

  • Compounds quietly, month after month

  • Moves the roadmap faster than headcount alone
    • A missed or wrong hire

    Costs you months

  • A strong candidate lost at the offer stage

  • A hire who looked right on paper, wrong in practice

  • Momentum and morale you do not get back

  • A manager pulled back into the work they hired out of
    • Hiring the best talent is the highest-leverage move a leader makes. It deserves a real process, not a rushed one.

    The real problem

    It’s Not the Market. It’s the Funnel.


    When a great candidate goes cold, the instinct is to blame the salary or the market. The real reason is almost always upstream. A brief no one aligned on. A job ad that read like a memo. An offer that arrived three weeks too late.

    Hiring is a go-to-market function. You are selling an opportunity to a specific audience, and the same funnel that wins customers is the funnel that wins talent. When it leaks, you lose the best people first, because the best people have the most options. The Hiring Funnel Diagnostic shows you exactly where yours leaks.
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    The diagnostic

    Find Your Leak in Seven Minutes


    A short, sharp check on your hiring process. No theory. One clear result you can act on this week.
    STEP 01

    Answer 19 questions

    Quick questions across the six funnel stages. Seven minutes, start to finish.
    STEP 02

    See your funnel scored

    Every stage rated from tight to broken. Your biggest leak flagged.
    STEP 03

    Get your priority fix

    One specific action, with the script or template to run it straight away.

    Free. Built on The Hiring Funnel Fix by James MacDonald.
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    Or start with the playbook

    The Hiring Funnel Fix


    The full playbook behind the diagnostic. Eight chapters that take you from salary to onboarding, with the frameworks, scripts, and templates James uses to place senior tech talent.
  • The ALIGN Framework

  • The job ad rewrite prompt

  • The weighted interview scorecard

  • The offer pitch script

  • The 5 Questions Framework

  • Distribution channels checklist

  • The pre-close prompt

  • The 30-day onboarding playbook

    • Free PDF. Read it in one sitting.
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    Your next hire

    Your Next Hire Could Change Everything


    Seven minutes now can save the candidate you would otherwise lose at the offer stage.
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