I’m in a predicament at the moment, I have a new recruit on staff who’s been with us for about 7 weeks now, he’s still pretty inexperienced and he’s not coming up to speed as fast as I would have liked – or what others have.

So I’m now in a predicament, so I cut this new guy before its 3 months in and no progress or do I stick it out for the 3 months and hope that things have improved?

I’m trying to let him learn, given a few weeks to do no client work and only skill up on specific topics, I can afford to keep him on for the 3 months and do next to no client work, but after that it’s really only costing me money, not only in wages but client work that’s not being billed for.

Meanwhile since he’s not up to speed, I’m stuck taking on the overflow work, which is stressing me out above what I really need to be, and is defeating the purpose of why I recruited someone new anyway.
On top of that he’s also taking up time of other staff asking them questions and getting them to help all day long.

I really want to give people a chance and let them have the opportunity to prove themselves and to have a job etc, etc, but I have to look out for myself too.

I have a bad feeling about it all, he’s not progressing much, I think I will let him have the full 3 months but I don’t think it’s going to work out.

Which sucks, I hate firing people and I don’t want to have to go through a whole new recruiting process.

Having to find a new recruit could just make things worse, I might not find someone or I might end up in the same situation again. It’s tough, but a decision needs to be made.