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The 20-hour test: working out what to hand over first

Most owners hire before they know what the job is, then blame the hire. Two hours with a notepad fixes it.

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The most common reason an offshore hire fails is not the person. It is that nobody defined the job, so the new starter spent three weeks waiting to be told what to do and the owner concluded it was not working.

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