Did you hire the wrong person?

Hiring is one of the most important decisions you'll make for your business. Yet it's rarely a matter of simply finding someone who ticks all the boxes. You'll come across all kinds of candidates: Some who can kinda do everything somewhat ok → don't hire! Some who are really freaking awesome at one or two important things, and good enough at the rest → hire! And some who are amazing at a few things, but have a major flaw in some area. → IT DEPENDS So what do you do with these candidates that are great at a few things, but bad at others?  Should you hire them and hope it works out? Just pass on them? Hire them and coach them to make up for their weaknesses? Or set them up to double-down on their strengths?  There's no simple answer for all scenarios, but here's what I wish I knew when I started out hiring people almost twenty years ago. Go get'em! Steli PS: The cost of a bad hire is insane. It's not just salaries, it's also the time it takes to onboard someone until they're productive, and most of all the opportunity cost of NOT having hired the right person. There's no way to guarantee that every hire will work out. But I've learned to filter out the wrong candidates a lot better, and I share my learnings in the latest post on the Close.io blog.

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