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.

Recruiting on the Web is the most comprehensive and advanced guide to Internet recruiting available anywhere. It explains the best practices, creative ideas and recruiting tools used by the most forward-looking companies and professional recruiters to lower their recruiting costs, slash cycle time, and hire the very best candidates via the Web. Recruiting on the Web will help recruiters and Human Resources professionals plan a Web-based recruiting campaign to quickly fill a position with the right candidate. It will also help managers, executives, and small-business owners save thousands of dollars in advertising costs by taking charge of their own hiring process, using the power of the Web. Readers will learn to: Organize inexpensive but highly effective job posting campaigns Select, evaluate and post to the best niche job boards Work more successfully with Monster.com, HotJobs, CareerBuilder Find candidates hidden in companies, universities, and organizations Build a recruiting Web site Find great diversity candidates using the Web Build a Web-based employee referral system Build a Web-based college recruiting plan And much more

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.

A critical factor in your organization's success is your ability to hire -- and keep -- good people. But in order to tackle the toughest recruiting assignments and keep your company running smoothly with great hires who are there for the long haul, you need to infuse both common sense and corporate street smarts into your approach. 101 Strategies for Recruiting Success offers tips of the trade from a recruiting professional with more than two decades of experience. The book includes proven ways to reel in great talent, including how to make your general recruiting operations proactive rather than reactive, 25 ways to find the people your company needs, methods for conducting interviews and evaluating candidates, advice on how to recruit for diversity, retention tactics such as mentoring, performance appraisal, and anti-raiding strategies that begin before the candidate is hired, and a Recruiting Excellence Workbook.

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.

Research shows you have a 50% chance of hiring the right employee . . . and a 50% chance of hiring the wrong one. It's a toss up, but it doesn't have to be. Mis-hires siphon your energy and erode team culture. Replacing them is stressful and can cost over $40,000 per re-hire. With the right tools, all of that can be avoided, and you can consistently make great hires. After years of scientific research and first-hand interview experience with thousands of candidates, Chaka Booker has created a system that helps employers consistently make great hires. Mastering the Hire provides 12 proven strategies that have been used to accurately identify the right talent 90% of the time. Whether hiring manager, business owner, CEO, search consultant, team manager, team member, novice or expert interviewer, Chaka's method is for anyone who wants to beat the hiring odds. In this book, you will learn: How to manage your intuition: when to trust it and when to put it aside. Question design principles: structuring questions so candidates are influenced to tell the truth. The power of pressure: when to apply or release pressure and how to control the hidden internal pressure that leads to poor decisions. To identify key competencies: the four competencies you must always interview for and techniques to accurately assess them. Tools for removing bias: tomorrow's talent doesn't fit yesterday's mold and is often overlooked. To reimagine the hiring process: resume reviews, phone interviews, and in-person interviews will get a much-needed revamp with innovative twists on each. The interview is the cornerstone of the hiring process, yet science has shown the odds aren't in your favor. Mastering the Hire provides strategies that will dramatically improve the one decision that determines everything you can accomplish--who you hire.