Effective Hiring Strategies

Are you looking for talent, but then have to settle for less-than-optimal employees? You're not alone. Many employers are looking for the great talent but come up wanting after they go out to hire a new employee. Why can't we find the right talent? It's probably NOT because the employees aren't out there. They are! It's a matter of understanding what you want and WHERE that talent is located...and then reaching out to them in a way that attracts them to your organization. In this book, Dr. Wade Larson applies 20 years of experience in the people side of the business to demonstrate methods sure to improve the results of your talent quest. In his book, Dr. Larson explains the process he refers to as "front-loading" the selection process. Just by taking a little more time to prepare and apply basic business strategies to your hiring techniques, you can immediately improve the quality of your hiring outcomes. Learn how to go beyond the job description to find out what you really want from a candidate. Then, learn how to apply marketing tools such as target-marketing to find those qualified candidates. By applying a few new strategies, you can fundamentally change your business outcomes for life. Start today with a few strategies that can create outstanding results and find the talent you are looking for.

Elevate your hiring game with “Effective Hiring Strategies,” a manual for an animated video-based course and an integral part of our HR 9-Book series entitled "Talent Management and Workforce Development." Streamline recruitment, attract top talent, and ensure successful onboarding. Craft offers that retain the best, all in one comprehensive guide. Make every hire count for lasting organizational success!" Chapters: Chapter 1: Getting Started Introduction to the guide's objectives and the rich learning experience it offers. Chapter 2: Defining the Position Mastering the hiring process by understanding the intricacies of the open position and uncovering the essence of job and task analysis. Chapter 3: Hiring Tactics Exploring the essence of company information, salary dynamics, and traits of top performers for strategic hiring. Chapter 4: Attract Top Talent Guidance on targeted advertising, fostering corporate citizenship, respecting candidates, and ethical considerations. Chapter 5: Screening for Interviews Elevating the importance of cover letters, effective resume grading strategies, leveraging internet searches, and initial phone interviews. Chapter 6: The Interview Stage (I) Creating a welcoming interview environment, benefits of panel interviews, tailoring interviews to job roles, and exploring interview question types. Chapter 7: The Interview Stage (II) Showcasing company knowledge, creating a focused interview environment, interviewing candidates more than once, and concluding interviews professionally. Chapter 8: The Selection Stage (I) Exploring testing methodologies, evaluating passion and enthusiasm, background checks, and trusting instincts in the hiring process. Chapter 9: The Selection Stage (II) Balancing education and experience, building consensus, maintaining a database of non-hires, and best practices in reference checking. Chapter 10: Crafting the Offer Swift job offer processes, employment details, notifying rejected candidates, and creativity in tailoring benefits to attract top talent. Chapter 11: The Onboarding Stage Effective training and orientation strategies, mentoring approaches, guidelines for 30-60-90-day reviews, and creating a warm welcome for new employees. Chapter 12: Wrapping Up Summarizing key lessons, sharing wisdom from industry experts, and outlining next steps for continuous improvement. These chapters collectively provide a holistic guide to streamline your recruitment process and achieve successful hiring outcomes. Why Choose This Guide: "Effective Hiring Strategies" is not just a guide; it's a roadmap to transformative hiring practices. Whether you're an HR professional, a hiring manager, or a business owner, "Effective Hiring Strategies" empowers you to build a workforce that propels your organization toward unparalleled success. Unlock the secrets to successful hiring, foster employee retention, and adapt your strategies to the ever-evolving needs of the talent market. Elevate your hiring game with this indispensable guide and secure a brighter future for your organization.

The decision of whether to go to college, or where, is hampered by poor information and inadequate understanding of the financial risk involved. Adding to the confusion, the same degree can cost dramatically different amounts for different people. A barrage of advertising offers new degrees designed to lead to specific jobs, but we see no information on whether graduates ever get those jobs. Mix in a frenzied applications process, and pressure from politicians for "relevant" programs, and there is an urgent need to separate myth from reality. Peter Cappelli, an acclaimed expert in employment trends, the workforce, and education, provides hard evidence that counters conventional wisdom and helps us make cost-effective choices. Among the issues Cappelli analyzes are: What is the real link between a college degree and a job that enables you to pay off the cost of college, especially in a market that is in constant change? Why it may be a mistake to pursue degrees that will land you the hottest jobs because what is hot today is unlikely to be so by the time you graduate. Why the most expensive colleges may actually be the cheapest because of their ability to graduate students on time. How parents and students can find out what different colleges actually deliver to students and whether it is something that employers really want. College is the biggest expense for many families, larger even than the cost of the family home, and one that can bankrupt students and their parents if it works out poorly. Peter Cappelli offers vital insight for parents and students to make decisions that both make sense financially and provide the foundation that will help students make their way in the world.

In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50 percent. The silver lining is that “who” problems are easily preventable. Based on more than 1,300 hours of interviews with more than 20 billionaires and 300 CEOs, Who presents Smart and Street’s A Method for Hiring. Refined through the largest research study of its kind ever undertaken, the A Method stresses fundamental elements that anyone can implement–and it has a 90 percent success rate. Whether you’re a member of a board of directors looking for a new CEO, the owner of a small business searching for the right people to make your company grow, or a parent in need of a new babysitter, it’s all about Who. Inside you’ll learn how to • avoid common “voodoo hiring” methods • define the outcomes you seek • generate a flow of A Players to your team–by implementing the #1 tactic used by successful businesspeople • ask the right interview questions to dramatically improve your ability to quickly distinguish an A Player from a B or C candidate • attract the person you want to hire, by emphasizing the points the candidate cares about most In business, you are who you hire. In Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street offer simple, easy-to-follow steps that will put the right people in place for optimal success.

Powerful ideas to transform hiring into a massive competitive advantage for your business Talent Makers: How the Best Organizations Win through Structured and Inclusive Hiring is essential reading for every leader who knows that hiring is crucial to their organization and wants to compete for top talent, diversify their organization, and build winning teams. Daniel Chait and Jon Stross, co-founders of Greenhouse Software, Inc, provide readers with a comprehensive and proven framework to improve hiring quickly, substantially, and measurably. Talent Makers will provide a step-by-step plan and actionable advice to help leaders assess their talent practice (or lack thereof) and transform hiring into a measurable competitive advantage. Readers will understand and employ: A proven system and principles for hiring used by the world's best companies Hiring practices that remove bias and result in more diverse teams An assessment of their hiring practice using the Hiring Maturity model Measurement of employee lifetime value in quantifiable terms, and how to increase that value through hiring The Talent Makers methodology is the result of the authors’ experience and the ideas and stories from their community of more than 4,000 organizations. This is the book that CEOs, hiring managers, talent practitioners, and human resources leaders must read to transform their hiring and propel their organization to new heights.

As the recruiting landscape changes, different methods are needed to attract talent, and social media is a key channel. However, many HR and recruiting professionals are not equipped with the knowledge and understanding to create a social media recruiting strategy. Social Media Recruitment combines practical guidance with case studies and insights from industry thought leaders to provide a full understanding of what social media means for HR and recruitment and how to successfully integrate and use it. In a series of easy-to-follow chapters and manageable steps, Social Media Recruitment covers the essentials from the beginning to the end of the process, including: how to implement a social media strategy; the crossover between HR, recruiting and marketing; measuring ROI; HR policies and procedures needed; big data and HR; using technology in recruiting, such as video interviewing; social media as an internal collaboration and communication tool across companies; how social media will impact recruiting and HR in the future. Ideal for all HR and recruitment professionals, and anyone responsible for talent strategy, Social Media Recruitment focuses on devising and implementing a social media recruitment strategy that works for your organization and is aligned with your recruitment objectives.

If you want your business to grow, you need to be able to rely on your ability to hire talent reliably and consistently. No talent pipeline? No growth, and no business. But your recruiting team is drowning (I asked them). They need help. Now, if you ask recruiters, they will ask for headcount. Or more technology. But more bodies and more tools won't solve the issue (though it will eat up your budget). What you need a is a better strategy. And that strategy is called employer branding.Employer branding is about understanding, distilling and communicating what your company is all about in order to attract all the talent you need. That will differentiate your company as a place where people will want to work, rather than a place they land because they didn't know better.If you've heard about employer branding in business magazines, it might seem like something only "big companies" can do. Something that requires a dedicated team, expensive platforms, or a bunch of consultants. That isn't true. If you understand where your brand comes from, and how to apply it, any company (especially yours) can hire better with it.And this book will teach you how to do all of that, and then some.In this book, you'll learn what employer branding really is, how to make a compelling argument internally to leadership that creates commitment, how to work with other teams and be creative in finding solutions. As a special bonus, we are including a handbook on how to work with recruiting teams. This hands-on workbook is chock full of examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions and even emails you can copy and paste to make things happen immediately.

Essential hiring and team-building lessons from the #1 Podcaster in the world The Effective Hiring Manager offers an essential guide for managers, team leaders, and HR professionals in organizations large or small. The author’s step-by-step approach makes the strategies easy to implement and help to ensure ongoing success. Hiring effectively is the single greatest long-term contribution to your organization. The only thing worse than having an open position is filling it with the wrong person. The Effective Hiring Manager offers a proven process for solving these problems and helping teams and organizations thrive. The fundamental principles of hiring and interviewing How to create criteria to hire by How to create excellent interview questions How to review resumes How to conduct phone screens How to structure an interview day How to conduct each interview How to capture interview results How to make an offer How to decline a candidate How to onboard candidates Written by Mark Horstman, co-founder of Manager Tools and an expert in training managers, The Effective Hiring Manager is an A to Z handbook to the successful hiring process. The book explores, in helpful detail, what it takes to hire the right person, for the right job, and the right team.