How To Stop Wasting Six Figures On Hires Who Look Perfect On Paper

Episode notes

I've spent 20 years watching brilliant people build companies on gut instinct and prayer when it comes to hiring. After losing a million dollars on a single bad hire who tanked an entire engineering team for six months, I wanted to understand if there was actually a way to measure the thing everyone claims is unmeasurable: culture fit. Jacob Crockett built Higher Aligned after nearly getting fired at one company for the exact same behaviors that made him a star at the next. That personal disaster led him to ask a question most people assume is impossible: can you actually quantify whether someone will thrive in your environment before they walk through the door? We talked about what happens when you stop guessing and start measuring the human side of business decisions. Jacob walked me through how his AI platform scores alignment before the hire, the invisible costs that never show up on any P&L, and why the recruitment industry has devolved into an automated mess where both sides are gaming broken systems. If you've ever hired someone who looked perfect and crashed spectacularly, this conversation will explain exactly why that happened and what you can do differently.

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