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Quality of Hire

A Deeply Flawed Metric

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Kevin Wheeler
Jul 19, 2023
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Recently I have seen more and more recruiting functions focusing on the quality of hire or even using it as the primary measure of their success.

This is unfortunate.

One of the most difficult aspects of creating a metric is a precise, clear, measurable definition. And here is where the challenge lies when talking about the quality of a candidate or a h…

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