Tag Archives: Hiring Failure

How Your Flawed Reference Checking Process Is Causing Numerous Bad Hires Part 1 Cheating on reference checks is at an all-time high. To slow this trend, this article provides a scannable list of the problems that cause flawed reference-checking processes to produce a significant number of bad or failed hires. …

Last year, new-hire turnover jumped a whopping 15%! So everyone involved in hiring should take notice. This type of turnover may be the most painful of all turnovers! Why New Hire Turnover Is Especially Painful Of course, all turnover hurts; however, I’ve found that new-hire turnover (where recent hires leave …

Data reveals that 46% of recent hires fail, and managers wouldn’t rehire up to 50% of their hires. Now, assume for a minute that you are one of your company’s top executives in a business world where “failure analysis” is an expected business practice. You were presented with data showing …

Newsflash: Powerful new data shows that interviews are horrible at identifying the best candidate! Where horrible is defined by interviews failing to select the best candidate over 90% of the time. However, you can dramatically lower this “ugly failure rate.” If you use data to restructure your interviews and then …