After months of courting the ideal candidate for a crucial position within your company and moving step by step through the hiring process, you finally land your prize recruit. With the candidate’s start date just two weeks away, congratulations are in order.

Don’t break out the champagne just yet.

As the saying goes, a sale isn’t final until the check clears. When it comes to recruiting talent, the “check” is the start date.

Countless hires have been lost in the time between an accepted offer and an employee’s start date. Once the smoke clears from the excitement and hectic pace …

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