The Untrained Decision: Why Hiring Manager Capability is the Most Overlooked Investment in your Talent Strategy
Hiring managers make the final call on almost every hire an organisation makes, yet most have never been trained to do it.
Hiring managers make the final call on almost every hire an organisation makes, yet most have never been trained to do it.
Sourcing, screening, employer brand, shortlisting, months of investment, funnelled down to one hour with a hiring manager who has, in most cases, never been trained to make the call. Fewer than four in ten receive any formal interview training before they start interviewing.
This report sets out why that gap has been left to grow, why the training most organisations already run fails to close it, and what the organisations getting this right are doing instead.
Estimated cost of a single failed mid-level hire
Hiring managers receive any formal interview training
Of new hires don't make it past eighteen months
Productivity a poor performer can cost them
A briefing for HR directors and talent leaders responsible for hiring manager capability and interview quality. Grounded in what we’ve seen work across higher education, legal, financial services and transport.