Remember that time you made a new hire? You finally found someone after months of searching and interviewing.
Their résumé looked good. The interviews went well. They accepted the offer, and you were already imagining how much easier things will be once they’re up to speed.
Then a few weeks in, something doesn’t feel right.
Maybe the skills aren’t there. Maybe they’re struggling with the pace of the firm. Maybe what sounded great in an interview isn’t translating into the job.
Then you found yourself asking the question every law firm owner dreads:
Did I make a bad hire?
That’s what makes hiring feel like a gamble. You can do everything you’re supposed to do and still not know exactly how someone will perform until they’re actually doing the job.
It’s also one of the reasons law firms turn to Build My Great Team. A more thoughtful recruiting process can reduce the risk of a bad hire. And if the person still doesn’t work out, you shouldn’t necessarily have to start the entire search over again.
A Bad Hire Costs More Than a Paycheck
When a new employee doesn’t work out, you’re not simply back where you started.
Your team spent time training them. Workloads shifted. You invested time in onboarding, introductions and getting them familiar with your clients, cases and processes.
Now you’re facing the possibility of doing it all over again.
That can make law firm owners hesitate to hire even when they desperately need help. It can also make it tempting to hold onto the wrong person longer than you should because starting another search sounds exhausting.
The better question isn’t how to eliminate every hiring risk. It’s how to reduce it.
Reduce the Risk Before Someone Starts
A better hire starts well before the interview.
What does this person actually need to do? What skills are essential? What can be taught? What would make someone successful in your particular firm?
Build My Great Team helps law firms answer those questions first, then recruits and screens candidates based on what the firm actually needs.
That can improve your odds of finding the right person, but it can’t remove every unknown.
People are people. Someone can look great on paper, interview well and still turn out not to be the right fit once they’re inside the firm.
So what happens then?
You Don’t Have to Start From Scratch
Your Build My Great Team recruiting fee covers one hire, and that hire comes with a 60-day guarantee.
If the candidate you hire isn’t the right fit within the first 60 days, Build My Great Team will reopen your file and continue the search from where it left off to help find a replacement.
That’s important because a guarantee shouldn’t mean pretending every hire will work out. No recruiting company can promise that.
It means that if something doesn’t work, you have support getting the search moving again rather than staring at an empty position and wondering how you’re going to find the time to start over.
Hiring Doesn’t Have to Feel Like a Roll of the Dice
Adding someone to a small law firm is a big decision. You’re trusting that person with your clients, your team and a business you’ve worked hard to build.
You should take that decision seriously.
You just shouldn’t have to make it alone.
Build My Great Team helps law firms define the role they actually need, find and screen candidates, and make a more informed hiring decision. And if that new hire isn’t the right fit within the first 60 days, we’ll help you pick the search back up.
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