In a recent survey of our clients, we found that over 30% of all IT employees said they were planning on looking for a new job in the next year. At the same time, for employees who had been at a company for less than a year, that percentage shot up to over 40%. Many of those new employees are viewed as good hires.
This is putting pressure on hiring managers to have candidates in the recruiting and hiring pipeline. In turn, this increases the probability that the wrong candidate will be hired.
We have found that over half of all hiring failures are due to two factors; interpersonal issues associated with the new hire (29 percent) and poor corporate culture fit (28 percent). Most of these can be filtered out during the recruiting and interviewing process.
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