The Hire Wire

A $500K budget. An open org chart. Five hires to make. Who you pick says everything.

The Hire Wire is a leadership judgment game about team composition — built to make a simple idea tangible: who you pick says everything about you as a leader.

🎮 Play it here

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What It Is

You're a newly promoted leader with a $500K budget and an open org chart. You pick 5 hires from a pool of 10 candidates — each with visible traits and hidden ones. Then you face 5 real workplace scenarios over a simulated 9-month arc. Your team's composition determines what actually happens.

At the end, you get a Leadership Judgment Score and a breakdown of what your choices revealed about your judgment.

What It Isn't

This isn't a skills assessment or a personality quiz. There's no single right answer. It's a reflective tool — designed to surface the gap between who we think we're hiring for and what our choices actually communicate.

The Idea Behind It

Most leadership development focuses on what leaders do. This focuses on who they choose — which is a more honest window into their values, their ego, and their blind spots.

Inspired by:

• Jim Collins' Good to Great — "First Who, Then What"
• Tasha Eurich's research on leadership self-awareness

Who It's For

• HR Business Partners and People Leaders
• Organizational Development practitioners
• MBA programs and leadership development cohorts
• Anyone who hires, manages, or advises those who do

Features

• Archetype-based candidate pool with visible traits and hidden ones
• $500K budget constraint that forces real trade-offs
• Nine-month simulation with scenario-driven outcomes tied to team composition
• Leadership Judgment Score with per-archetype insights and blind spot diagnosis
• Single-file HTML — no install, no account, no data collection

Running Locally

No build process. Just open index.html in a browser.

git clone https://github.com/SamirSaad786/the-hire-wire.git
cd the-hire-wire
open index.html

Deploying to GitHub Pages

1. Go to repo Settings → Pages
2. Set source to main branch / root
3. Your game will be live at https://samirsaad786.github.io/the-hire-wire

Built With

Vanilla HTML, CSS, JavaScript — single file, no dependencies. Designed to be hosted via GitHub Pages.

Built By

Samir Saad · HR Business Partner · SPHR · MS in Human Resource Development LinkedIn · GitHub

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A reflective tool for exploring team composition and leadership dynamics. Not production software — a thinking tool.