Let me take you on a trip back in time. Back exactly 109 years ago today, to the 22nd of May, 1915. We’re a year in to the first world war, and we’re in Edinburgh, Scotland. 500 men board a train in the middle of the night, bound for the front line in Gallipoli. But they would never make it. This is a story about the worst rail disaster in British history.

£250,000. That’s how much it costs my organisation when I hire the wrong the person. Now you might be wondering how much I pay in agency fees, but I’m talking about the true cost of employee turnover. It’s natural to only think of the direct costs associated with recruitment, but these pale in comparison to the opportunity costs incurred through lost productivity as people leave and join a business. So, if you make hiring decisions, the real costs associated with getting it wrong probably run to hundreds of thousands of pounds.