mishire

Verb

mishire (third-person singular simple present mishires, present participle mishiring, simple past and past participle mishired)

1. To hire an unsuitable person for a job.
   • Whether it be a banker that mishires a teller that steals money, whether it be industry that mishires an accountant, regardless. of what it may be, the best they can do is remove him when they find him guilty of wrongdoing after he has come into the organization.1957, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings - Volume 3, page 4302
   • Worse, many times they hire someone they thought was just like what they wanted, but – because of imprecision in the screening and interviewing process — the person wasn't even that! It's very easy to mishire people for jobs at which, realistically, their innate shortcomings will prevent them from...1998, Don Blohowiak ·, Your People Are Your Product, page 58

Noun

IPA/ˈmɪshaɪə(ɹ)/

mishire (plural mishires)

1. The act of mishiring.
   • Most mishires stem from the fact that some item of intelligence was not collected at the time of hiring.1995, John Wareham, The New Secrets of a Corporate Headhunter, page 85
   • As if the barrage of negative feedback was not evidence enough of a mishire, within six months her entire team quit, including me.2001, Diane Downey, Assimilating New Leaders: The Key to Executive Retention, page 61
2. An unsuitable person who has been mishired.
   • Merely by representing salary and/or job description in annual terms, you may be legally stuck with a mishire for that one-year period.1996, Allan Krieff, Manager's Survival Guide, page 43
   • If they are basically in business for themselves to do what they want to do rather than what you need done you have a mishire who you need to get out of the organiztion quickly.2005, Andrew L. Ross, Gary L. Grenier, Frank J. Kros, Creating the Upside Down Organization, page 177