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.

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.

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

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

What are the holes that exist in most employee selection processes that cause needless hiring mistakes? (multiple answers permitted)

The applicant with the best job skills will typically be...

Research has determined that 'loving the work you do' plays a significant role in a person's motivation and ability to achieve superior results, yet few interviewers take this into consideration when making a hiring decision.

Given enough time and hands-on interviewing experience, most interviewers will eventually learn how to correctly identify high achievers.

Using behavior-based interviewing is the most effective way to correctly assess an applicant's self-motivation.