According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, two-thirds of American businesses have faced lower productivity and reduced employee morale due to a bad hire.

Most unmotivated employees were great hires but they changed after they were hired due to poor management, unrealistic job expectations and/or unsatisfactory working conditions.

An applicant with great job skills will always out-perform a job applicant with lesser skill.

Excellent job skills means an applicant can do the job, however, it does not necessarily mean he or she will do it better than most everyone else.

Using behavior-based interviewing often results in extending a job offer to a marginal performer.

If an untrained interviewer uses an unstructured interview format (asks questions that pop into their head), the probability of hiring the best applicant is about 40% according to a Michigan State study.

Which statement is true about high achievers (people who achieve above-average results)?

Choose the ONE job listed below that people are typically allowed to do without being properly trained.

Hiring managers commonly make the connection between an employee's poor performance issues and their own interviewing deficiencies.

According to a Harvard Business School study, 76% of turnover can be traced back to poor interviewing practices and bad hiring decisions.