Drift is not failure. It is failure in progress. Every one of these twelve signs has a dollar cost and a person cost. Most of them are invisible until the hire is already in the seat. Use this guide to audit where your hiring process is holding and where it has already begun to slide.
Each sign maps to one of the six dimensions of the Hiring Discipline Diagnostic - Winning, Identity, Behavior, Tolerance, Standards, and Performance. If you want a scored read across all twelve, the diagnostic is at qualigence.com/diagnostic.
THE 12 SIGNS
The intake is a requirements dump, not a definition of winning.
The job description gets reposted verbatim every time the role reopens.
Interviews are conversations, not designed tests.
Feedback arrives as "I liked them."
The bar moves after candidates show up.
"One more candidate" loops replace decisions.
Urgency overrides written red flags.
The offer gets decided in the hallway, not against the definition.
Nothing about winning is written anywhere.
Feedback takes longer than 48 hours.
Quota pressure bends the screens.
The 90-day review is a surprise.
The full guide includes the consequence line for each sign - what the drift costs in time, in candidates, and in the decision that follows. Download the PDF to get the complete read.
Reading about discipline is not the same as installing it.
23 questions. About ten minutes. A scored read of where your hiring breaks.
