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I haven’t been let go because of a bad hire, but I know it’s a real concern for many managers. The important thing is how you handle it moving forward, addressing the issues transparently and quickly to support the team and find solutions. Mistakes happen, and I'm sure with all of us. Just see it as a learning opportunity rather than a career-ending event.
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agree that how you handle it is the important part! everyone has made a bad hiring move in their career before ( or they will)
That would be pretty unusual I would think for somebody to be let go because of a bad higher they made. It’s very easy to put on a good face for a couple rounds of interviews, so my take at the end of the day would be that it’s not your problem that he didn’t turn out to be who he put a front on to be . Now, if it was a consistent and reoccurring pattern of bad hires than that would be another thing, but if that’s not the case, then I wouldn’t lose sleep over it.
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no, if anything you would let the new hire go. Have you had a chat with him about his nosiness and body odor? These seem like very fixable issues
If they had good credentials and did well in their interviews, that’s a pretty good base for a favorable hiring decision. Besides, you weren’t the only decision maker for the hiring, so it’s not like the other people who decided are somehow unaccountable now. What are they going to say, that you clouded their judgement into deciding to hire someone who turned out completely different from the interviews? The argument gets murky fast. If it were me I’d just let the candidate go, preferably within that first 90 day probationary period.
Hasn't happened to me yet, knock on wood. I've made some hires that backfired spectacularly, but they're anomalies. For every one candidate that burns me, I'll successfully place fifteen others. My hit rate is high enough that I don't have any real concerns about my job security. Hope those don't turn out to be famous last words 😬
I guess everyone is always concerned that a hire can turn out badly, but I've never known of anyone to get fired because of it. I suppose if you get into a pattern of hiring people who are utterly unsuitable that could become a problem. But the way most organizations are constituted, that probably wouldn't happen. Unless you have a penchant for choosing people who turn out to be malodorous busybodies and troublemakers, you're probably fine.
I have never heard of someone being let go for a bad hire that they made. If it was a pattern, it might become an issue, but not one bad call. It happens. There is only so much you can learn about a person from the interviews. There is an element of chance with every hire.