Burnout Is A Weakness In Your Hiring, Not Your People

Burnout doesn’t start with your employees “not coping.”

It starts with the way you hire.

This whitepaper explores how slow hiring, bad hiring, and roles left vacant pile pressure on your best people - and how skills-based hiring can stop burnout before it starts.

Whats Inside?

In this whitepaper, we unpack the link between your hiring process and the wellbeing of your teams. Using insights from testing millions of candidates, we reveal the traits that protect against burnout - and why traditional hiring misses them entirely.

You’ll discover:

  • The domino effect a bad hire has on productivity, morale, and retention

  • The four core skills that prevent burnout from day one

  • Why 33% of new hires start job hunting again within six months - and what that’s doing to your team

  • How faster, evidence-based hiring reduces strain and protects your best performers

  • Case study: How DCM cut time-to-fill by 44% and reduced mis-hire costs by 40%

The Importance of Hiring TO PREVENT BURNOUT

Every slow hire, wrong hire, or empty seat doesn’t just delay growth - it redistributes work to the people you can least afford to lose. Over time, that extra load turns into stress, disengagement, and burnout.

Hiring with burnout prevention in mind means:

  • Filling roles faster to avoid overloading existing staff

  • Reducing mis-hires that disrupt productivity and morale

  • Hiring for adaptability, accountability, and communication skills - not just CV credentials

  • Building teams that can handle change without cracking under pressure

The Data on BURNOUT AND HIRING

From our research and industry data:

  • 33% of new hires start looking for another job within their first six months

  • 89% of hiring failures come down to poor cultural fit

  • SHRM reports an average 42 days to fill a role —-with some taking over 80

  • Companies working with NX have cut time-to-fill by 44% and mis-hire costs by 40%

When you measure the right skills before you hire, you stop burnout before it has a chance to take root.

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