Jaws: Hiring Edition

Jaws: Hiring Edition

You're gonna need a bigger recruiter. One bad hire in a small sales or hospitality team isn't a small problem, it's a great white circling the boat, and pretending a slightly bigger boat will do is how businesses end up going under.

So what does one bad hire actually cost, beyond the obvious salary waste?

In hospitality, one bad front of house hire doesn't just underperform quietly in the corner, they interact with every single customer that walks through the door during their shift, and a bad attitude is remembered longer than a good meal.

In sales, one bad hire doesn't just miss target, they burn leads that a good salesperson could have converted, and those leads don't always come back around.

Then there's the team cost.

Good people notice when a bad hire gets away with mediocrity. It tells them the standard has dropped, and standards dropping is contagious. You don't just lose the productivity of one bad seat, you risk the motivation of everyone sat near it.

This is where the flat fee versus unlimited hiring maths actually matters, because a bad hire made cheaply is still an expensive mistake.

If you're paying a bargain-bin agency fee for someone who lasts eight weeks, you haven't saved money, you've paid twice for one role and lost eight weeks of output on top. Compare that to an unlimited model where getting it wrong doesn't mean paying again from scratch, it means we go again until it's right, for one flat monthly cost.

The bigger boat isn't spending more on recruitment. It's spending properly on it the first time.

If you're tired of patching up bad hires with sticking plasters, the unlimited model exists precisely so getting it wrong doesn't cost you twice. Let's talk about what that actually looks like for your team.