SACKED! | Bosses reveal why staff were laid off on day one

The process of finding the right candidate to fill a hole in your workforce is long and laborious.

Whilst the role of the hiring manager is hard, and requires very specific skills, at best a recruitment drive is based on the opinions of those involved, or reliance on, and trust in, the skills listed on a CV. Whist a candidate may tick all of the right boxes – good CV, relevant skills, good cultural fit – until they start the job and get to work, it’s impossible to tell if it’s going to work out.

But what’s the worst that could happen?

It’s a fair point. Usually, an onboarding period of relatively low output is expected as they get to know the ropes, and if they turn out not to be as expected, an in-built period of unquestioned termination of the contract on either side is a standard clause for all new starters. So, this leaves, at best, six months in which an incompetent new worker can mess things up. Six months in where their true colours and work ethic can truly be assessed. However, some workers don’t need six months to reveal their real, terrible, selves. Some people don’t even need one week.