Recruit in Haste, Regret at Leisure
Make hiring decisions you'll still be happy with six months later.
Avoid Hiring and Holding on to Horrible People
You didn't set out to hire the wrong person.
Nobody does.
Yet many employers find themselves looking back and saying:
"We didn't realise."
"They interviewed so well."
"There were signs,
but I thought I was overthinking it."
"I felt something wasn't quite right,
but I couldn't put my finger on it."
"We thought we'd know."
By the time these thoughts appear, the contract has been signed, salary has been paid, management time has been invested and the consequences have started to unfold.
The challenge is rarely noticing something.
The challenge is understanding what it means before the consequences arrive.
Most People Problems Weren't Caused Today
They grew through a series of missed opportunities to act.
Recruitment is one of the few moments when you still have maximum influence over the future of your business.
The hiring decision you make today could become:
a future high performer
a trusted team member
a future leader
Or:
a management headache
a performance issue
a grievance
a tribunal
an expensive lesson
Every hire comes with potential.
Every hire comes with baggage.
The challenge is understanding what you're inheriting before commitment is made.
Why This Programme Exists
I've spent decades helping organisations recruit.
I've also spent decades helping organisations deal with what happened after recruitment decisions didn't work out as hoped.
That experience changes how you think about hiring.
Most recruitment advice is informed by helping employers get people into organisations.
Recruit In Haste, Regret At Leisure is informed by seeing what happens when the wrong people get in.
The programme helps you make hiring decisions with the benefit of hindsight before the consequences exist.
What You'll Learn
Think Before You Hire
Get clear about:
- what success actually looks like
- the outcomes the role needs to deliver
- what you're really recruiting for
- the difference between activity and impact
Avoid recruiting the wrong person because you recruited for the wrong thing.
Build A Recruitment Process That Supports Better Decisions
Learn how to:
- structure your recruitment process
- improve candidate experience
- think through sourcing options
- create consistency before recruitment begins
Gather Evidence Rather Than Impressions
Learn how to:
- ask stronger interview questions
- gather meaningful evidence
- assess candidates more consistently
- reduce reliance on assumptions, charisma and instinct alone
Understand The Signals Being Sent
Explore:
- candidate experience
- recruitment communication
- employer reputation
- the messages your process sends before someone joins
Access Overlooked Talent
Learn how to:
- welcome returners
- challenge assumptions about career breaks
- assess capability rather than CV gaps
- widen your talent pool
Recruit Effectively In An AI-Enabled World
Learn how to:
- use AI responsibly
- distinguish polish from genuine capability
- maintain human judgement
- assess candidates more effectively in a changing recruitment landscape
Included With The Programme
Recruit In Haste, Regret At Leisure
- 6 audio modules
- 138-page Recruitment Handbook
- self-paced learning
- immediate access
- lifetime access
Recruitment Handbook
A practical working resource you build as you progress through the programme.
Includes:
- planning tools
- role definition exercises
- interview frameworks
- recruitment templates
- reflection exercises
- candidate experience tools
- AI recruitment activities
- implementation guidance
Bonus: Cathy's Recruitment Toolkit
Practical recruitment templates and tools drawn from real-world hiring experience.
Use, adapt and apply them to future recruitment campaigns without starting from a blank sheet of paper.
Bonus: Future Programme Updates
Employment practices evolve.
Technology evolves.
Recruitment evolves.
Your programme investment includes future updates as the programme develops.
Bonus: The Antenna Room
Exclusive quarterly live sessions available only to programme participants.
A space to continue strengthening your antenna by exploring:
- behaviour
- significance
- assumptions
- judgement
- competing explanations
- what deserves attention
before another opportunity to act is missed.
The Cost Of Doing Nothing
By the time you're certain you've made the wrong hiring decision, most of the cost has already been incurred.
- The recruiter fee has been paid.
- Or you've spent weeks running the recruitment process yourself.
- The salary has started.
- The onboarding has happened.
- Management time has been invested.
- The team has adapted.
- Clients may have been affected.
Research and industry estimates suggest that replacing an employee can cost anywhere from approximately 16% to 200% of annual salary, depending on the role and circumstances.
The most expensive part of recruitment is rarely recruitment itself.
It's living with the consequences of getting the decision wrong.
- The employee who consumes disproportionate management time.
- The difficult conversation you've been avoiding.
- The colleague who quietly leaves.
- The grievance you didn't see coming.
- The team adapting around behaviour that should have been addressed sooner.
- By the time these consequences appear, the hiring decision is already behind you.
The Outcome
- The goal isn't a perfect recruitment process.
- The goal isn't ticking boxes.
- The goal is making hiring decisions you'll still be happy with six months later.
- Decisions based on evidence rather than hope.
- Decisions based on understanding rather than assumptions.
- Decisions made with greater clarity about what deserves your attention.
Investment
£997 until 31st December 2026
Includes:
Recruit In Haste, Regret At Leisure
138-page Recruitment Handbook
Cathy's Recruitment Toolkit
Future Programme Updates
The Antenna Room
Lifetime Access
£1,297 from 1st January 2027
One Final Thought
Many employers don't buy this programme because they're recruiting.
They buy because they've already experienced what happens when a people decision doesn't work out as hoped.
They'd rather not learn the same lesson twice.
Recruit In Haste, Regret At Leisure helps employers make hiring decisions they'll still be happy with six months later by making those decisions with the benefit of hindsight before the consequences exist.
Why Learn This From Cathy?
I'm Cathy Doherty, The People Navigator®.
For more than 20 years I've helped employers recruit. I've also spent years helping employers deal with what happened when recruitment decisions didn't work out as hoped.
The frameworks, questions and tools inside this programme are drawn from real-world situations, not theory.
They're designed to help you slow down, think more clearly and make better recruitment decisions before people problems become business problems.
