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Amber Burton, Paolo Confino

How to avoid hiring blunders using 3 data points

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With companies tightening their belt, HR leaders have had to be more intentional about who they hire. But that doesn’t mean they don’t still make mistakes. Hiring blunders, in which the right person slips through the cracks or an underqualified candidate creeps into the fold, often occur and result in lost productivity and training and recruitment costs. The silver lining is that employers can learn from their hiring mistakes, says Claire Hughes Johnson, former chief operating officer of Stripe and the author of Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building. 

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