All Blog Posts Tagged 'cost of a bad hire' (1)

Bad Hires: Stats, Costs, Avoidance, Poor Excuses and Other Thoughts

The adage goes, “if you hire clowns, you will end up with a circus.” Not just a circus but a really expensive circus.  Let me start with the generalist statistic from PR News (2012).  Of new hires, 46% fail within 18 months.  Of new hires another 45% are only fair to marginal performers.  That means that 81% of new hires are a disappointment.  That is a really big number and comes at even bigger costs.  The cost of a minimum wage bad hire has been cited to be $4,500 and change.  Research in…

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Added by Darryl Moore on June 14, 2012 at 11:31am — 1 Comment

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