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If you keep ending up with the wrong people, the problem isn't your talent pool. It's your process. Here's how to fix it. [Call (402) 391-2128](tel:+1-402-391-2128)[Schedule Consultation](/contact) A bad hire doesn't just cost you their salary. It costs you in lost productivity, damaged team morale, management time spent on performance issues, and eventually the cost of replacing them and starting over. Industry estimates put the full cost of a bad hire at 1.5 to 3 times the annual salary. For senior roles, it's even higher. The good news: bad hires are preventable. They almost always trace back to a flawed process, not a flawed talent pool. The most common causes are unstructured interviews that reward charisma over competence, no validated candidate assessment to predict actual job performance, hiring decisions based on gut feeling and pattern matching, moving too fast (or too slow) and settling for whoever's available, and unclear job requirements that attract the wrong candidates. Fixing this requires building a system, not just trying harder. That means defining what success looks like for each role, using validated assessments to screen for it, structuring interviews around evidence instead of impressions, and tracking quality of hire so you know whether your process is actually improving. VantagePoint's recruitment optimization and candidate assessment services are designed to do exactly this. Our overt testing methodology flags counterproductive behaviors that interviews miss. About 25% of candidates don't qualify. That's 25% fewer bad hires. 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