Featured Work

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I helped launch Ashby from a total unknown to a major player in the Talent industry. You might be using it yourself! This is a deeper look into the spread of marketing I created. Unless otherwise noted, you can safely assume that I was responsible for ideation, SEO, creation, editing, publishing, and promotion.

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2023 Trends Report | Offer Acceptance Rates

The full text of a downloadable data report. I worked with the data team to take the raw numbers nd build a narrative and provide context, creating a story out of raw data. (The download will ask for your email, but I can provide a copy by request.)

Skills: Data Storytelling, Information Design & Structure, Visual Communication & Data Visualization, Brand-Aligned Writing & Tone Development, Lead-Generation & Conversion Optimization

Offer Accepted: Podcast Support

An example of my work supporting Ashby's podcast and setting up Shannon Ogborn as an influencer. I listened to each podcast, wrote a biography of the guest, and highlighted the biggest takeaways in a digestible summary.

Skills: Content Strategy & Audience Development, Social & Channel Distribution, Repurposing & Content Atomization, Influencer & Guest Relationship Management, Performance Analytics & Growth Optimization


Blog Articles

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With very few exceptions, I wrote or ghost-wrote all of the content in the Ashby blog during my tenure.

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How Thoughtful Communication Makes Us Unreasonably Productive

Still Ashby's top pinned article, four years later! I wrote this article as part of a ghostwritten series of interviews with company leadership to offer more insight into how Ashby itself operates. This was based on an interview with our Head of Engineering, and I used my personal method to craft an article that truly sounded as if he'd written it, using his own words and style based on our discussion.

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Sales Excellence | Approaching Sales As A Quantifiable Skillset For Assessment

Still Ashby's top pinned article, four years later! I wrote this article as part of a ghostwritten series of interviews with company leadership to offer more insight into how Ashby itself operates. This was based on an interview with our Head of Engineering, and I used my personal method to craft an article that truly sounded as if he'd written it, using his own words and style based on our discussion.

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How to Track and Improve Your DEI Hiring Metrics

A regular article for Ashby - one that I designed and planned from SEO keywords, researched, wrote, edited, and published - the end to end process I used for all articles at Ashby. I wrote almost all articles in the Ashby blog from Jan 2022 to Oct 2023, changing the bylines to promote audience trust and spotlight knowledgeable team members.

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5 Simple Ways to Improve Candidate Experience and Close More Candidates

A bread and butter "listicle" style article, optimized for search engines and designed to be highly shareable via socials.

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Skills: Interviewing & Insight Extraction, Strategic Storytelling & Narrative Structure, Data & Outcome Framing, Cross-Functional Collaboration & Brand Alignment, Copywriting for Credibility & Conversion


Case Studies

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I’m especially proud of my case studies. As an unrepentant people-person, talking to Ashby users, getting their stories, and alchemizing their experiences into case studies was a joy. And it produced some of Ashby’s top-performing content!

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How Aurora Solar Saved 40+ Hours Monthly with Ashby's Seamless Workday Integration

I created Ashby's Case Study program, using a similar interview-to-article process I used for ghostwriting for Ashby's leadership. I pulled numbers and data from customers' own words and assessments and turned them into a unique story with a repeatable format that Ashby is still following in this content long after my time with them ended: Company context, Pre-Ashby problems, Adoption process, Biggest successes using Ashby.

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How Ashby Helped Sequoia Double Referrals and Lower Attrition While 10x-ing TA Team Efficiency

A second example of the same Case Study format. My attention to detail was always a hit with customers in these calls! I let the voice of the customer lead rather than trying to fit their words to a pre-determined narrative.

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Case Study: PostHogs's Careers Page

In creating PostHog's case study, I realized we had a wealth of interesting material that could be genuinely helpful to our users (one of our content north stars!) I proposed and created this additional deepdive based on a secondary interview, offering creative ways for recruiting teams to design their application pages.

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Additional Work

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A sprinkling of other content that didn’t quite fit anywhere else!

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Project Type Description
Feature launch post Social Media A straightforward post to support a feature launch. Under my leadership, Ashby reached their first 10k LinkedIn followers by following simple, small, scalable stepping stones like these.
Ashby logo debate Ghostwritten Founder Social Media I helped Ashby's co-founder, Benji, write this after a long and intense internal debate about potential logos for Ashby, poking a bit of appropriate fun at the heat of the deliberation.
Ashby’s Story Web Copy Ashby’s heroic origin story - one I had a big hand in storytelling!
Ashby vs Greenhouse Landing Page One of a set of landing pages I helped write, edit, and publish.

Contact Information

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Love what you see? Here's how to reach me.

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Email

[email protected]

Phone

614 301 6670

Website

https://www.haldencontent.com/

Social Media

LinkedIn

Thanks for reading! Can’t wait to chat!