What is Top Grading?
Top performing companies seek competitive advantage through productivity gains by hiring the best employees. Numerous studies reveal that hiring top people has a definite and measurable impact on a company’s bottom line. It is possible to improve the overall quality of your workforce by a deliberate selection process called Top Grading. In essence the technique involves determining what defines an “A” player in each position within an organization and then building an interviewing and selection format that vets the “A” players.

The $1.5 Million Mistake
"for midmanagers whose base salary is in the $100,000 range, the average cost of mis-hiring is 15 times base salary, or $1.5 million." - Brad Smart in his in-depth study Topgrading.

Cost of Hire or Quality of Hire. What’s a more meaningful measure?
Lou Adler has developed a formula that calculates “Quality of Hire”. This breakthrough formula proves that companies have literally $millions of dollars at stake based on their ability to hire from the top third of the talent community. Let us help you compute your Quality of Hire.

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