Hiring Consultant in Colorado Springs for Owner-Led Companies
We build your hiring system on site, with your team.
What your last bad hire cost you
Think about the last person you hired who didn't work out. How long did they last?
Now add up what you paid them, with burden: payroll taxes, workers' comp, insurance, training, the truck or the laptop. Add the hours you and your managers spent working around them, and the work that never got done.
Now look at your margin. How much do you have to sell to earn that money back?
Then count how many hires like that you've made in the last three years.
Most owners have never run those numbers. When they do, it's a problem worth solving, unless you don't need the money.
Two client results
A specialty medical group with five partners needed to replace a doctor who was retiring. They spent nearly nine months searching, evaluated dozens of doctors, and eventually selected the candidate with the strongest credentials and the best interview. They even took the finalists to dinner and asked their own wives what they thought. Everyone liked the guy.
Within weeks of hiring him, they knew they'd made a mistake. His bedside manner was terrible. Three months later, they'd bought him out and parted ways. The partners estimated the mistake cost them $400,000.
That's when they called us.
For about $28,000, we built them a hiring process that measured what the interviews had missed, including how a doctor treats patients. The doctor they selected using that process is now three years in, performing exceptionally well, and has become a full partner.
The second owner came to us before he'd generated his first dollar of revenue. He was building a company from scratch and wanted to make sure the people he hired could actually do the jobs he was hiring them to do.
We helped him build a system for selecting, hiring, and developing people based on the demands of each role, rather than relying on resumes, interviews, and gut instinct.
He finished his first year at $6 million in revenue. His second year, $20 million. He's projecting $50 million in year three.
His team is one of the largest groups of flat-out high performers we've ever seen.
Hiring decisions you can defend
A strong resume tells you what someone's done. A great interview can leave you convinced they can do the job. Neither, on its own, tells you enough about how they'll actually perform.
We define what the job demands before you meet a single candidate. Then every candidate is evaluated against the same job-related standards, using assessments validated for hiring and scored interviews.
When you make the offer, you know why you're hiring this person, what the evidence says, and where the risks are. If the decision is ever questioned, you can show exactly how you made it.
Why one CEO won't hire without data
Mike McKee, former CEO of ObserveIT, on why he won't make a hiring decision on gut feel and an interview alone.
A hiring system your team runs after we leave
Straightline Consulting Group builds hiring systems for owner-led companies in Colorado Springs and across the Front Range. We come to your building, work with your team, and leave you with a process you use for every hire after we're gone.
What we build
Role clarity: what the job actually requires, written down before anyone posts an ad.
A structured selection process: the same questions and the same scoring for every candidate.
Behavioral and cognitive data: used as one input, not the decision.
Onboarding: a plan that keeps people past the first 90 days.
That's The Straightline Strategic Hiring Framework. We build it with you and stay until it works. Your team runs it from there.
How we work with Colorado Springs businesses
Colorado Springs is home. The best way to understand a business is to spend time with the people running it.
We come to your business, sit down with your leadership team, and learn what the jobs actually demand, what makes people successful, and where hiring decisions go wrong.
Then we build a hiring process with your team. They help shape it, so they understand it, believe in it, and use it every time they hire.
We work with businesses in Colorado, Florida, and throughout the country. Here in Colorado Springs, we're right down the road.
Have a position you can't afford to get wrong?
Questions owners ask
How much does this cost compared to a bad hire?
It depends on your roles and your team, so we don't quote a number until we've seen your business. For one client, a single bad hire cost about $400,000. The hiring process we built them cost about $28,000.
How is this different from using a recruiter?
A recruiter finds candidates. We build the process your team uses to decide which candidate to hire, and you keep it for every hire after that. Many of our clients still use recruiters. The process makes their candidates easier to judge.
We already use a personality test. Isn't that enough?
Most personality tests weren't built for hiring, and any assessment is only one input. Without a defined job and scored interviews, you're still deciding on gut feel.
Do you work outside Colorado Springs?
Yes. We're based in Colorado Springs and work with companies across Colorado, Florida, and the rest of the country. We come on site wherever you are.
