A bad hire is like a bad apple. One bad apple, which can spoil the others. Hiring the wrong person can have serious implications. A bad hire not just hampers productivity but also influences your employees leading to disengagement and cultural imbalance. The cost of a bad hire is threefold:

Recruitment has been a highly competitive area of work for a few decades and it’s only going to get more so. Just having recruitment processes and referrals may prove enough for some very top companies, but most others need to improvise to be able to get the best people for the job.