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Best Practices for Employee Due Diligence in the Financial Services Industry

Sterling Check

The Undercover Recruiter broke down the cost of a bad hire (earning $62,000 a year and terminated after 2.5 The formula is: Hiring Costs + Total Compensation + Cost of Maintaining Employee + Disruption Costs + Severance + Mistakes, failures and missed business opportunities equals a bad hire cost of $840,000 in this example.