Where applications first land
Intake file reviewWe reconstruct how a vacancy collects, acknowledges, and stores applications from the first form through the first human read.
Sibu desk · application file review
We read the hiring file the way a candidate, a manager, and a later investigator each would.
Kernel Portal Hub sits with the forms, mailboxes, walk-in books, and offer trails that actually moved people — not the policy that was supposed to. If a vacancy cannot explain itself on paper, we will say so in a letter you can act on.
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Primary engagement
Start with the intake file
Most organisations do not need a tour of every HR ritual. They need to know whether applications that arrived last season can still be reconstructed. The intake file review is the engagement we recommend when you are not yet sure where the gaps live.
We sample live and recently closed vacancies, follow each channel that produced a form, and score completeness before anyone debates culture. You receive a vacancy-by-vacancy map and a repair order ranked by candidate harm — not a software score.
Typical duration: 8–12 working days after the sample is complete. Field time in Sibu or on your site by arrangement.
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Other ways we open a hiring file
When the intake path is already clear, we can go straight to screening criteria, interview notes, offer trails, retention, or the agency channels that feed your desk.
Advert versus shortlist
Screening criteria auditWe test whether the people who advanced match the criteria you published, and whether unpublished filters did the real work.
What the notes actually say
Interview record auditWe examine scoring sheets, free-text notes, panel composition, and whether a later reader could reconstruct why one applicant moved and another did not.
The last mile of the file
Offer and rejection trailWe follow who was offered, who was declined, what was sent, who approved it, and whether unsuccessful applicants were closed with a dated record.
What you keep, who can see it
Applicant data and retention reviewWe inspect how application packs are stored, who can open them, how long unsuccessful files remain, and whether your notices match the practice.
Applications you did not collect yourself
Agency and portal channel auditWe review how third-party agencies, job portals, and walk-in drives feed your hiring file, and where those channels break your own rules.
From employers who sat the sample
What the letter felt like to receive
They sat with the walk-in book instead of asking us to type it into a spreadsheet overnight. The findings were blunt about unclosed files, and the repair order was something we could finish in a month.
Head of People, Timber processing employer, Sibu
We thought the agency channel was “their paperwork.” The audit showed we had no instruction on what to send back when a role filled. That single gap explained a year of duplicate candidates.
Clinic administrator, Outpatient group, central Sarawak
The screening matrix was uncomfortable to read and useful the next morning. We changed the advert before the following intake, not after another complaint risked landing.
Operations manager, Logistics contractor, Miri corridor
Method
We do not grade your character. We grade the trail.
A review has a scope, a sample, a workshop, and a letter. The custom page walks through each stage so you know what staff time you are actually booking.
Read how a review runs