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Each year about 28 million Americans begin a search for a new job. Millions more live in the age of the permanent job search, their online profiles eternally awaiting a better offer. Job seekers are more mobile and better informed than ever, aspiring to work for employers offering an appealing culture, a robust menu of perks, and opportunities for personal fulfillment and advancement. The result is that millions of applications stream to the handful...
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"Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross's Talent offers strategies on how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people. How do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict human creativity, or is human creativity something irreducible before our eyes, perhaps to be spotted or glimpsed by intuition, but unique each time it appears? The art and science of talent search get at exactly those questions. Renowned economist Tyler...
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Every day, rising companies stumble because management hired available people, not the right people. Then after making one too many of these mistakes, especially in key positions, the once-promising business that had the world to offer to its consumers is no longer. Because they didn't learn: Hiring. Is. King.
In Hire Smart from the Start, author and entrepreneur Dave Carvajal distills lessons learned from 20 years of both successful and poor hiring...
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From recruitment to orientation, this updated and accessible guide covers it all. Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees has long been the go-to reference on every aspect of the employment process. Packed with forms, checklists, guidelines, and ready-to-use interview questions, the revised and updated edition provides readers with practical information on topics including interview methods, documentation issues, reference checking,...
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"Common hiring practices are destined for failure -- here's how to hire the right people and build a company culture designed for long-term success. In a recent groundbreaking study, the training firm Leadership IQ found that 46 percent of all new hires fail within their first 18 months. But here's the real shocker: 89 percent fail for attitudinal reasons -- not skills. Most hiring managers are getting it wrong. Of course skills are important, but...
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"All organisations have problems, and they nearly always concern people: how to manage them; whom to hire, fire or promote; and how to motivate, develop and retain high-potential employees. Psychology, the main science for understanding people, should be a pivotal tool for solving these problems - yet most companies play it by ear, and billions of dollars are wasted on futile strategies to attract and retain the right people for key roles. Bridging...
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"A practical guide for prospective employers who want to hire veterans. It addresses this primary question: How can employers better prepare for and employ transitioning service members to improve the productivity and competitiveness of their organizations?"--
"The definitive guide to hiring and retaining members of the military community by the foremost authority on the transition from military to civilian work life."Having led the veteran hiring...
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For anyone who hires employees this is a must have book. It is also essential for anyone searching for a new job. This new book contains a wide variety of carefully worded questions that will help make the employee search easier. These questions can help you determine a candidates personality type, the type of work he or she is best suited for, and if the person will mesh with your existing employees and workplace. Interviewing potential employees...
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"This book will show you how any company can attract, find, and keep employees for the long-term. What many organization leaders fail to understand is that you can't simply transplant a competitor's talent strategy and achieve the same results-conditions are different. A company that takes the time to examine its own environment, select talent accordingly, and nurture its people will prevail, regardless of economic conditions"--
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Making the wrong hiring decision can cost companies over $40,000 per hire and countless lost hours, yet statistics show that half of the time, the hire proves to be the wrong fit. Chaka Booker has developed a system that will increase the odds of hiring the right person for the right job from 50% to over 90%.
No one knows with 100% certainty that the person in front of them is the right person for the job, but with the right strategies and preparation,...
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It's frustrating. You're up to date on all the newest interview techniques. You know what to look for on candidates' résumés. You inspect social media profiles for red flags and put them through an in-depth panel interview. They pass with flying colors. But still, a week or two into the job, it's clearly not working out. They turn out to be less motivated than they claimed. They didn't reveal their tendencies in the interview, and they don't have...
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Simplify the hiring process and put the right people in place the first time with the help of scripts, templates, and tools you can apply immediately, from the leading voice in HR expertise.
Part operational field manual, part guiding hand, Paul Falcone, a renowned expert on effective hiring, performance management, and leadership development, walks you through some of the most critical people challenges you'll face and provides the keys to getting...
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Speakers and author of the bestselling books Maximum Achievement and The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success, offers 21 proven strategies that will give you a competitive edge in selecting and keeping excellent people. Concise, handy, quick to read and easy to apply, from corner cubicle to corporate suite, managers today say their biggest concern is the competition for talent. The critical constraint on the growth and success of any...
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"Leadership expert and executive coach Roxi Bahar Hewertson provides insights and advice for avoiding the all-too-common hiring bumps in the road. She defines and explores the ARC employee life cycle: Acquisition (hire right), Retention (nurture right), Closure (fire right). Acquiring and retaining talent and eventually bringing closure when employees leave, is a relational, not a transactional process"--
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"Researched, tested, and written by the chief investment strategist of one of the country's leading business banks-Untapped Talent includes dozens of examples of businesses (from factories to restaurants to retail) that have successfully implemented the second chance hiring practices outlined in this book."--Amazon.
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Hiring and firing are difficult to get right . . . and potentially costly to get wrong both for your career and for the business. Do you really want to take that kind of risk? Business expert Brian Tracy says you don't have to!
Hiring and Firing is the indispensable guide you absolutely must have by your side. This handy resource breaks down the simple but powerful strategies you can use to both bring better employees on board and weed the weaker...
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Laurie Beth Jones, management expert and business consultant extraordinaire, noticed that none of the personality/temperament profiles in the market today, none of them provided a tool that was simple, visual, intuitive, and powerful enough to create a shift in thinking as well as relating. So she developed The Path Elements Profile (PEP), which can be used in recruitment, placement, retention, team building, and customer relations as businesses transform...