How much did your last bad hire cost you?
$17,000? $50,000? More?
Stop the bleeding
on your next one.
Use our unique, unmatched-precision Job Fit Analysis. Built by a human, not a chatbot. Try it FREE — and judge for yourself.
The cheap assessment tools don't go deep. The deep ones cost $5,000+ a year. Nothing has lived in between — until now. A $289 value, free for one candidate. One per company.
You don't have a hiring problem. You have a decision problem.
Most owners think hiring is about finding more candidates. It isn't. The candidates are already there. The problem is that resumes lie, interviews flatter, and gut feel is a coin flip in a $17,000–$240,000 wager. SHRM and CareerBuilder put the cost of a bad hire in that range — before you count lost productivity, team disruption, and the months you'll spend rehiring.
Here's what 38 years of recruiting taught me: most candidates have learned to interview well. The traits that actually predict success — or burnout — live underneath that polished surface. You can't see them across a conference table. You can't read them on a resume.
That's the gap the A.I.-Supported Job Fit Analysis closes. Nothing else does it this way.
- $17K–$240K+ in direct replacement costs
- 3–6 months of lost productivity
- Damage to team morale and customer trust
- The hiring process all over again
- And your time — the hardest cost to quantify
If you've made a bad hire,
you're in very good company.
Most owners blame themselves for hiring failures. The data says otherwise. Bad hires aren't a personal failure — they're a systemic problem the entire industry has been quietly suffering for years.
In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.”
46%
of all new hires fail within 18 months
Source: Leadership IQ
80%
of employee turnover is caused by bad hiring decisions
Source: Harvard Business Review
50%
of hourly new hires fail within 6 months
Source: Humetrics
1 in 5
new hires succeed unequivocally — the rest underperform or fail
Source: Center for Creative Leadership
33%
of business bankruptcies are caused by employee theft — almost always traceable to a hiring failure
Source: StatisticBrain · FBI
Most turnover predictors can be screened for before hiring.
The Job Fit Analysis is built to do exactly that.
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Why this doesn't exist anywhere else.
I'll be direct with you about the market. There are two kinds of assessment tools out there. The cheap ones don't go deep enough to matter. The deep ones are out of reach. Nothing has lived in the middle — until now.
Two bad options.
Affordable tools under $200/month hand you an automated score and a generic PDF. No human review. No interpretation. No idea what to actually do with the result.
Deep, validated tools cost $5,000+/year — or are enterprise-only and won't even quote you a price unless your company has 500+ employees.
Both options leave small business owners exactly where they started: guessing.
Enterprise depth. SMB pricing. Human supervision.
- Two validated assessments combined into one analysis
- Reviewed by a Hirebox HR consultant before delivery
- Supervised by Patrick — 38 years of methodology, not just an algorithm
- A custom second-interview plan and 90-day development plan
- $289 per analysis — or $119/month for unlimited
- Free, in full, on your first candidate.
Three things nobody else in this market does.
A human consultant reviews every report.
No AI hallucination. No copy-paste template. A Hirebox HR consultant evaluates your candidate's results, writes the analysis, and is available to walk you through it on the phone.
A roadmap, not a score.
Other tools tell you the candidate's score. We tell you what to do with it — the questions to ask in your second interview, the red flags to probe, the 90-day onboarding plan if you decide to hire. The report ends with a decision, not a number.
Enterprise depth at small-business pricing.
Comparable depth from major assessment firms typically runs $500–$5,000+ per evaluation. Hirebox delivers more for $289 — or unlimited for $119 a month. And your first one is free.
$289 value · No credit card · One per company
This is not a one-page personality test.
It's an 8–10 page expert-built analysis. Two of our proprietary, validated assessments combined into one report — evaluated by one of our HR consultants, supervised by Patrick Valtin. Free, in full, on your first candidate.
Deep, Job-Related Soft Skills Analysis
Recru-Tec™ Test
20 soft skills scored against the role. Validated since 1995 against 60,000+ candidates in 40+ countries. Up to 90% precision on the profile — don't take our word for it: test it on someone you already know.
Problem-Solving Ability Analysis
P.S.A.A.
Duplication ability plus logical, intellectual, vocabulary and mathematical reasoning.
A.I. Job Fit Report
Expert-built written analysis
Strengths, red flags, conflicting traits, and a custom second-interview question plan, written for your role.
What's actually in the report
Twelve pages, structured like a senior consulting deliverable — not a templated PDF.
- Executive recommendation with an Overall Job Fit Score (out of 10)
- Full Recru-Tec™ trait-by-trait results with interpretation notes
- P.S.A.A. results with cognitive sub-area breakdown
- A custom second-interview plan — questions and what to listen for
- A 90-day development plan if you decide to hire
Normally $289 per analysis. Yours free — one per company — so you can see exactly what it's worth before you ever pay for one.
Claim my FREE analysis →Three steps. We do the work.
No hours of your time. No software to learn. No webinars to sit through.
You submit your request
Fill in the short form below. Our team will reach out by email to confirm and request the candidate's resume, the job description, and the candidate's contact info.
We run the assessments
Your candidate completes the Deep Soft Skills Analysis (Recru-Tec™) and the Problem-Solving Ability Analysis on our secure platform. Typically within 24–48 hours.
You receive your report
A complete A.I.-supported Job Fit Analysis — evaluated by one of our experts, supervised by Patrick — delivered as a PDF within 1–2 business days.
Stop guessing. Start knowing.
Tell us how to reach you. Our team will follow up by email to set up your free Job Fit Analysis — $289 value, one per company.
We'll also send you a full anonymized Job Fit Analysis right away — so you can see exactly what you'll receive while we set up yours.
Don't take my word for it.
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“Hiring for Happiness has become a mantra in our company because the testing helps us find happy candidates. We are becoming known for this joyful culture — and it's largely due to the testing HireBox provides.”
“I did the Recru-Tec test myself and Patrick evaluated it — spot on. I then used the tests on candidates and you can see how well it works. HireBox tests have never failed me.”
“I have 286 employees and I would never hire a single one without first testing them on the HireBox platform. Patrick provides exact steps you can apply to get beyond the mask.”
“Patrick has been very accessible after the sale to help me actually use the service. He was very interested in only directing me to services that I actually needed. I plan to keep using HireBox.”
“Hirebox has the most effective system of finding the most qualified and suitable candidates for your business that I've ever seen. The small investment for this efficiency and hiring success is worth every penny.”
“I have been working with the No Fail Hiring system for over three years. As a business consultant with decades in HR, the Hirebox system is by far the most user-friendly and effective hiring system available.”
“Hiring for Happiness has become a mantra in our company because the testing helps us find happy candidates. We are becoming known for this joyful culture — and it's largely due to the testing HireBox provides.”
“I did the Recru-Tec test myself and Patrick evaluated it — spot on. I then used the tests on candidates and you can see how well it works. HireBox tests have never failed me.”
“I have 286 employees and I would never hire a single one without first testing them on the HireBox platform. Patrick provides exact steps you can apply to get beyond the mask.”
“Patrick has been very accessible after the sale to help me actually use the service. He was very interested in only directing me to services that I actually needed. I plan to keep using HireBox.”
“Hirebox has the most effective system of finding the most qualified and suitable candidates for your business that I've ever seen. The small investment for this efficiency and hiring success is worth every penny.”
“I have been working with the No Fail Hiring system for over three years. As a business consultant with decades in HR, the Hirebox system is by far the most user-friendly and effective hiring system available.”
Not ready to commit a real candidate yet? Look first.
Fair enough. Download a real, anonymized Job Fit Analysis and see for yourself what the deliverable actually is — the color-coded recommendation, the 20-trait Recru-Tec™ profile, the cognitive breakdown, the second-interview question plan, the development plan if hired.
No candidate required. No commitment. Just the sample.
- 11 pages of real analysis
- Every section we'd produce for you, anonymized
- PDF, instant access
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I've spent 38 years figuring out who succeeds — and who doesn't.
Patrick Valtin
CEO & Founder, HireBox International
I'm Patrick Valtin. I've spent 38 years recruiting, training, and watching what makes one hire succeed where another fails. Along the way I've trained more than 150,000 business owners and executives across 40+ countries. I've written two best-sellers on hiring — No Fail Hiring and my latest, Taking Off the Mask.
Taking Off the Mask — my latest book
How to avoid hiring dishonest employees who could ruin your business. The principles in the book are the same ones built into every Hirebox Job Fit Analysis.
The Recru-Tec™ assessment at the core of every Job Fit Analysis has been continuously refined since 1995, used by Hirebox and by independent consulting firms across 40+ countries, and validated against more than 60,000 candidates. It reads the profile with up to 90% precision — hundreds of clients verified that themselves, on people they already knew. But no assessment decides for you: the reliability of your hiring decision comes from applying the full procedure.
Every Job Fit Analysis is evaluated by one of our HR consultants and supervised by me — no chatbot, no AI hallucination, no copy-paste boilerplate. Just a careful, expert-built report on the candidate you're considering.
Used responsibly
The Job Fit Analysis is never used in isolation to make a hiring decision. It is one input in a structured process that includes resume review, structured interviews, reference checks, and a background check. All Job Fit Analyses follow EEOC-compliant practices and are applied consistently across candidates.
Your next hire is worth more than a guess.
Get one complete Job Fit Analysis, free, on the candidate that matters most. See for yourself what the rest of the market isn't even trying to give you.
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