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Damon Chen

Award-winning Technology Executive and product innovation thought leader with a 18+ year record of excellence positively impacting multi-million and multi-billion dollar product and service ecosystems—for startups to Fortune 100s.

A change management driver capable of “selling” transition, and leading innovation strategy, governance, and delivery across an organisation. Bridges siloes between technical and business factions to ensure feasibility and end user satisfaction. A future-thinker capable of seeing the big picture with cognisance of the smaller details; strong ability to anticipate, envision, define, enlist, and enact—identifying what is most needed tomorrow and today.

Experience leading direct reports; DevOps, enterprise architects, and support divisions; equivalent success overseeing project teams with no role authority. History of mentoring individuals to career advancement; thrives as a catalyst for collective achievement.

Sanat Hegde

Everyone says "reduce friction in your recruitment funnel." But which friction?

We added a feature to Hirevire that increases friction in one sense—we delay the video interview invite until after someone applies.            
          
Conventional wisdom says: "Show everything upfront! Transparency!" 

But here's what actually happens: candidates see video questions on page one, imagine themselves fumbling on camera, and bounce. 
0% completion.       

Meanwhile, a candidate who has already uploaded their resume and filled out your form? They've crossed the psychological threshold. 
Sunk cost fallacy now works for you. They're 3x more likely to complete the video.          

This is the difference between theoretical friction and actual conversion data.                                     

So now: collect basic info first (email, resume, whatever you want), then auto-send the video invite on a delay. Could be 2 hours, could be 2 days. 
You decide the timing based on your candidate psychology.             

 The system runs itself. Early customers are reporting measurably better    
 completion rates on both stages.                        
 
 Sometimes the best way to reduce friction is to sequence it correctly, not   
 eliminate it.

Helping busy founders be more productive while hiring candidates with 📹

We've built Hirevire to collect video CVs from interns, nurses, entertainers, social media managers and everyone else in between

Hirevire lets you collect video responses at scale—whether it's a fresh grad or a mid level manager. They record on their time, you review on yours, and everything stays organized in one place instead of scattered across your phone.

Your hiring process deserves better than a DM thread 😅

Co-Founder & CEO at Monk-E | Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia

We hired Visakha Bajaj from an Instagram reel.

Not everything is a LinkedIn post. But this one is too hard for me to resist.

Visakha posted the first video CV after my viral hiring video. It instantly got her to stand out amongst a sea of other applications.

But it wasn’t just that. Her video was actually good and she cleared 3 rounds of interview post that.

I didn’t care about her degree. Just cared about her skills and her high-agency behaviour.

I personally know quality founders who are struggling to hire the right people. If you’re applying to a company next, figure what’s your unique proposition. And you will get the job.

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