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Are You Hire Ready?
What is the Hire Ready Framework Canvas?
Most founders start a hiring search before they are ready.
They feel the pain, they Google a job title, they find a template written for a company three times their size.
They post it anyway.
And wonder why it does not work out.
The Hire Ready Framework Canvas is a single-page tool that maps the eight things every bootstrapped founder needs to have clear before a search opens. It takes thirty minutes to complete honestly.
The gaps it reveals are your to-do list before you talk to a single candidate.
It is free.
It is fillable.
You can type directly into it in your browser, and your answers save automatically so you can come back to it any time.
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From the book: Hire Ready
The Hire Ready Framework Canvas is the companion tool to Hire Ready –
Book 1 of The Bootstrapped Founder’s Hiring Trilogy by Helen Wingrove-Sanders, published by Wingrove Publishing.
Hire Ready is for bootstrapped, founder-led companies who want to build great teams without agency fees, costly mistakes or processes built for companies ten times their size.
Publishing 2026. Available on Amazon and direct from the author.
About Helen Wingrove-Sanders
Helen Wingrove-Sanders has spent 27 years placing people into founder-led, bootstrapped teams across the UK.
She began her career as the BBC’s first female football commentator and has supported hundreds of founders through the British Library’s Business and IP Centre and the Virgin StartUp community.
She is the founder of hfbac.com – Hiring For and Building Awesome Companies – and believes that not all hiring is born equal.
