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Hiring systems for growth-stage companies

Hire like revenue
depends on it.

Do you actually know the cost of empty seats?

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The Problem

Post and pray isn't an effective hiring strategy.

Most growth-stage businesses hire the same way — post on Indeed, call a couple of referrals, hope for the best. You wind up hiring whoever replied instead of selecting from the best in your market & industry.

And if you engage an outside recruiter, they might fill the seat, collect the fee, and leave nothing behind — no database, no referral engine, no process improvement.

You don't have a recruiting problem. You have a system problem — treated with ineffective tools and reactive spending.

Deals you can't take
Hours you can't bill
Clients you can't close
Margin you can't capture

Before any engagement — at no cost — we build you a Hiring Reality Check.

The real cost of your open seats

What every empty seat is burning, in dollars, every month.

Your talent market

How many qualified people actually exist for your roles, in your area.

What your competitors are doing

How the companies you compete with for talent are winning the same hires.

What the role really pays

The pay range your openings need to command to land the right person.

How candidates see you

Your company through the eyes of someone deciding whether to apply.

A one-page scorecard

All five graded, with the cost number front and center.

You keep all of it — even if we decide against an official engagement.

What We Do

We install the engine and run it with you.

Selection Method builds a hiring system fully customized to your business and runs it with your existing team. This isn't advice. It's a system — defined, installed, and operated the same way every time.

Defined roles

Clarity on exactly what traits you're hiring for, in every job you need to fill.

Sharp screening

A selection process that attracts the best in your industry — not the most easily available.

Designed experience

A candidate experience built on purpose, so you don't sound like every other company you compete against.

Data-driven sourcing

Sourcing tactics that run on data instead of luck — and compound with every hire.

We take the effort you're already investing and multiply it. You and your current team keep running the business. Headcount stops being the bottleneck.

Who It's For

Built for founder-led and growth-stage companies.

Companies where the founder still runs the business day to day, and open seats on the front line are holding back growth.

Healthcare
Trades & Crafts
Field Services
Civil & Site Work
Manufacturing
Distribution
Professional Services

If hiring is the primary issue standing between you and your next revenue target, we have the solution.

Chris Pepin, founder of Selection Method
Founder

Fifteen years.
More than 500 hires.

Selection Method was built by Chris Pepin — fifteen years in recruiting across healthcare, venture-backed technology, and industrial talent, with thousands of interviews to develop precise pattern recognition.

The intake processes, sourcing systems, and client methods built across three firms are the foundation of Selection Method.

The HCI GroupLead revenue driver for a #3 Inc. 5000 company
MagnanimousSales & tech teams for venture-backed software
Progressive ReliabilityManufacturing Maintenance, Operations & Reliability

B.S. Business Administration, Florida State University · Based in Jacksonville, Florida

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If hiring is your bottleneck,
start a conversation.

Selection Method takes on a small number of clients at a time. If you're ready to do what it takes to solve your hiring problem, we're here to show you the way.

A select number of clients at any time — by design.