A staggering 22 million Americans in the country’s labour workforce lost their jobs between January and April 2020 due to covid closures, pushing the unemployment rate up to almost 15% – the highest rate ever recorded in the 72 years since data collection began in 1948 – and a year on, the rate hasn’t changed

Every employer has a story to tell of the worst hiring decision they ever made. They rushed hiring someone without conducting a background checks or they needed a new employee in a hurry and they seemed a perfect fit to fill a vacancy in a crisis. Sooner or later though the promising new recruit showed