Let Sunstone HR support your talent acquisition / recruiting efforts to show you how to strategically identify the candidates that will not only succeed in the role, but will thrive in your culture. It's important to get this right, because we all know that a bad hire is extremely disruptive, even more so for the small business.

• The Society for Human Resource Management estimates that a bad hire can cost up to 5x the employee's annual salary once you account for turnover, training, lost productivity, and rehiring expenses.
• The US Department of Labor estimates the cost of a bad hire to be at least 30% of the individual's first-year earnings
• CareerBuilder's survey reported that 74% of employers say they've made a bad hire, and the average reported cost was around $15,000 per employee, with escalating expenses for higher-level roles.