I am still angry that the state thinks (even if correctly) that it needs to create an incentive program like this to get companies to do the logical thing. What next, state incentive programs to get companies to optimize their inventory?
I have seen this in action: While we are spending ages trying to find the perfect educated resume match professional candidates, who guess what, may very well walk off when they find a better opportunity anyway, we could hire 3 high school students right now, for the same money, to relieve the workload of experienced staff, and just fire the ones that don't work out. If they all work out, we still save on labor.
Why are HR departments and hiring managers so terrified of training? I think they are overly afraid to train, identify talent, reward talent, and fire people, i.e. do their job, so that they overreact by trying to hire this perfect candidate that is guaranteed to work out. They see their role being purely as candidate-matching, and none of those other yucky things.