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Smart hiring strategies for building teams that last
Your practical guide to hiring with clarity and conviction.
Pegs That Fit begins with a bold but simple idea: a wrong hire is not always a bad person. It’s often a lack of clarity.
Pegs That Fit begins with a bold but simple idea: a wrong hire is not always a bad person. It’s often a lack of clarity.
With this book, Esther challenges the casual and often rushed approach many organisations take toward recruitment. She reframes hiring not as an administrative task to fill an empty seat, but as one of the most strategic decisions a leader will ever make.
This shift in perspective matters, because hiring mistakes are rarely loud at the beginning. They show up quietly, in performance and in morale, and over time they cost far more than a salary.
If you are building a team, protecting a culture, or scaling a vision, this book will help you ask better questions before you make your next decision.
Pegs That Fit is a clear, tested framework designed to help leaders hire with intention rather than instinct.
Because when the right peg is placed in the right role, everything works better.
Every organisation wants great people, but few have built the systems to find, attract, and keep them. Pegs That Fit is not just another book on recruitment. It’s a practical, heart-level guide to building hiring systems that actually work.
Drawing on years of hands-on experience in talent management, Esther Dumbiri takes you beyond résumés and interviews to the real heartbeat of effective hiring. Through engaging stories, powerful frameworks, and thought-provoking questions, she reveals why so many recruitment efforts fail and how to stop repeating the same costly mistakes.
Identify and fix the hidden gaps in your hiring process.
Define what “fit” truly means for your organisation.
Build a recruitment philosophy grounded in values and results.
Ask better questions that uncover character, not just competence.
Know when (and how) to let go of the wrong hire gracefully.
Create a repeatable system for hiring that scales as you grow.
With warmth, wisdom, and biblical insight woven throughout, Pegs That Fit speaks to both the head and the heart. Whether you’re a founder, HR leader, or manager building your first team, this book will help you move from hiring on hope to hiring with precision.
Because when the right people find the right place, everything fits, and your organisation flourishes.
Order your copy of Pegs That Fit and build a hiring system that finds, attracts, and keeps the right people.
HR Strategist · Author · Publisher · Leadership Coach
Esther Dumbiri is an HR strategist, author, publisher, and leadership coach with over a decade of experience across corporate and entrepreneurial spaces.
She is the founder of Hands on Deck Consults, a strategic HR firm that supports local and international businesses with recruitment, performance management, payroll, and compliance. Through her work, she helps organisations improve performance and build people systems that are built to last. Over the years, she has led HR projects across Nigeria, the UK, and the UAE, and has trained hundreds of professionals on leadership, team performance and global employability.
Esther is also the founder of Legacy Bridge Holdings, the group behind Legacy Bridge Publishing (a reimagined evolution of SHTL Publishing) and IntelliBridge, where she works closely with authors and thought leaders to turn strong ideas into well-crafted books with lasting impact. As a coach and mentor, she supports emerging professionals with clear guidance and practical tools defined by structure, clarity and long-term impact.
Whether designing HR frameworks, developing authors, or leading conversations on leadership and productivity, her mission remains constant: to help people and organisations build structures that outlive them.