Personality and behavioural assessments could be the key to avoiding wrong hires A recent survey found that India figures in the top four countries of the world in making wrong hires! It costs Indian companies heavily (upto INR20Lakh in IT industry) for each bad hire that they make even at the lower levels of the organisational hierarchy. Another survey found that 46 per cent quit within 18 months of their hire. Attitudinal reasons amounted to 89 per cent of such failures and only 11 per cent was due to lack of skill (which is anyway assessed in the regular abilities and skill assessments). The attitudinal deficits included lack of coachability,...
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