Hire Right or Pay Twice
The most expensive employee you'll ever hire may be the one who looks perfect on paper.
You've probably met them. The strong resume. The polished interview. All right answers. Six months later, you're dealing with missed deadlines, frustrated coworkers, and a sinking feeling that your best people are starting to look elsewhere. Then you get pay for it all over again.
That's not bad luck. It's hiring process that stops at the tip of the iceberg.
Skills, experience, and education are what you can see. But what actually predicts success, how someone thinks, what they're naturally good at, how they're wired, and what they value, lies below the waterline. Most interviews never get there.
In Hire right or Pay Twice, Dr. Angelo Valenti, The Company Psychologist, shares what he as learned from more than four decades of helping organizations, from startups to multi-billion-dollar companies, predict who will perform. His STPV Framework (Skills, Talents, Personality, and Values) Gives you clear, repeatable way to see the whole candidate before you make an offer.
The results speak for themselves:
An insurance leader cut his new-agent failure rate from the industry's 80% to under 30%A manager who trusted his gut and lost 40% of his hires in year one reached an 80% success rate with a structured process.A medical device company cut costly quality errors by 70% by changing ow it hired.Inside, you'll learn how to:
Spot the warning signs of bad hire before you make the offerDecide which factors matter most for the specific role you're fillingRun interviews that get past rehearsed answers to the truthUse assessments to measure what interviews can'tCatch the hidden biases, including "gut feel" that lead smarts leaders to hire the wrong personhire well for remote and hybrid teams, leadership roles, and succession planningUse AI hiring tools without creating new legal bias risksIncludes free bonus resources: a 20 warning signs of bad hire checklist, The Waterline Interview Guide, The True Cost of a Bad Hire Checklist worksheet, and three bonus chapters with interview questions banks and implementation toolkits.
Whether you're a business owner without HR department, an executive filling a critical seat, or a manager building your first team, this book will change how you evaluate people.
As Dr. Valenti puts it: When in doubt, don't hire.
Before you make your next offer, read Hire Right or Pay Twice, because getting it right the first time costs far less than paying for the same mistake twice.
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