The Lean Recruiting Toolkit

Are you tired of having that "perfect" job candidate slip away between your fingers? Are you frustrated with ever-changing hiring requirements? Are you discouraged by the lack of qualified talent in the marketplace? The Lean Recruiting Toolkit provides simple solutions to these and other challenges facing talent acquisition professionals in today's hyper-competitive, candidate-driven marketplace. It is a practical, step-by-step guide to creating and executing your very own Lean and Agile recruiting strategies to ensure you hire better employees faster -- who end up staying longer. What's more, using the Kaizen theory of continuous improvement, your results get better and better over time, freeing up your schedule to do the rest of your job! Using the Lean Recruiting Canvas created by recruiting expert Craig E Brown, you will be carefully guided through this strategic framework in a methodical, yet efficient, fashion. Whether it is... - Accurately defining the core problem that led management to believe that hiring someone is necessary,- Deciding which characteristics and traits are necessary for a specific role based on proof points,- Or analyzing the Return-on-Investment (ROI) of your new hire to ensure business requirements are met or exceeded.In this timely release, Brown provides actionable and best-in-class strategies for finding your next hire -- with loads of fantastic examples and real-world anecdotes along the way.

The prospect of finding the right candidate for an open job position can be daunting to even the most seasoned manager. There is more competition than ever for high performing employees, and the ramifications of making a poor hire are significant. Only the largest and wealthiest organizations can afford the standard of service offered by traditional recruitment firms......until now. Based on years of experience recruiting for clients, Gary Romano and Alison LaRocca (Principals of Civitas Strategies and Access HR) present Lean Recruitment(c)- a proven recruiting methodology they devised specifically for businesses and nonprofits to self-implement at fraction of the cost and time of traditional recruiting. In Lean Recruitment: Finding Better Talent Faster you will learn how to: - Identify and prioritize the most essential qualifications for any job in your organization. - Construct a highly-effective job announcement designed to attract the talent you want. - Mobilize your personal network to build a pool of quality candidates. - Strategically select the 'where' and 'how' of sharing the job posting to maximize impact. - Use virtual headhunting to target the top performers in your field for possible candidacy...even if they aren't currently seeking a new job. - Employ research-based scoring techniques to quickly narrow the applicant pool and eliminate biases in decision-making. - Interview potential candidates with maximum efficacy. Lean Recruitment: Finding Better Talent Faster is the toolbox you are looking for to find the talent you need, quickly and at any budget.

Lean is a principle we have adapted with great success within our own business and has formed the basis of recommendations to our clients to maximise efficiencies and streamline processes within their recruitment process. This book outlines how you might use lean to do more with less within your recruitment process. This book is used to remind ourselves again the core idea of Lean is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. Simply, lean means creating more value for customers with fewer resources. We looked at how you can streamline your recruitment processes by accommodating lean thinking into your recruitment process in this book.

Simplify and streamline your way to a winning legacy The Financial Controller and CFO's Toolkit is a hybrid handbook and toolkit with over 100 lean practice solutions and a wealth of practical tools for senior financial managers of small, midsized and large companies. This book outlines the mindset of paradigm shifters relevant to future-ready finance teams, and contains guidelines on how to become an effective change leader. Guidance from world leading expert David Parmenter provides the insight and tools you need to reach your true leadership potential and achieve more for your organization. Packed with templates and checklists, this book helps you adhere to the best practices in reporting, forecasting, KPIs, planning, strategy, and technology. The companion website—a complete toolbox for positive, entrenched change—gives you access to additional resources that reinforce The Financial Controller and CFO's Toolkit strategy. This new second edition has been updated to reflect the latest practices and technology to streamline your workflow and get more done in less time—without sacrificing quality or accuracy. As an all-in-one resource for the CFO role, this book provides a clear, practical strategy for demonstrating your value to your organization. Selling and leading change effectively Get more accurate information from your KPIs Attracting, recruiting and retaining talented staff Invest in and implement new essential tools Investing wisely in 21st century technologies Report the month-end within three days, implement quarterly rolling forecasting, complete the annual plan in two weeks or less, and bring your firm into the 21st century with key tools that get the job done. Be the CFO that your organization needs and the leader that your teams deserve. The Financial Controller and CFO's Toolkit gives you everything you need to achieve more by doing less.

The term “integrated talent management” has been in vogue for several years, yet organizations are still trying to understand how to integrate talent management functions to achieve business results. Authors Toni Hodges DeTuncq and Lynn Schmidt use case studies from 17 different organizations to reveal best practices for demonstrating the value of integrated talent management. This book will show you how to: Design and implement talent management initiatives that will benefit business. Measure, evaluate, and demonstrate the impact of talent management initiatives at both a functional and organizational level. Benefit from the insights of world-class organizations.

Lean Manufacturing is defined as efficient approach to identifying and eliminating waste (non–value add activities) through regular improvement flowing the product in the pull of the customer in reach of perfection. Lean manufacturing is often simply "lean", is a systematical method for the leave out of waste ("Muda") within a manufacturing system. Lean also takes into account waste created through overwhelm ("Muri") and waste created through imperfection in workloads ("Mura"). Working from the angle of the client who consumes a product, "value" is any action or process that a customer want to pay for. " To solve the problem of waste, Lean Manufacturing has number of tools at its disposal. These include continuous process improvement the '5 Ways' and mistake-proofing. Thus it can be seen as taking a very similar approach to other improvement procedure."

« This is a must read for every B2B entrepreneur, SaaS creator or consultant and business school student. It's the kind of book you don't read once, you go back to it on a regular basis. » - Carmen Gerea, CEO & Co-founder, UsabilityChefs Lean B2B helps entrepreneurs and innovators quickly find traction in the enterprise. Packed with more than 20 case studies and used by thousands around the world, Lean B2B consolidates the best thinking around Business- to-Business (B2B) customer development to help entrepreneurs and innovators focus on the right things each step of the way, leaving as little as possible to luck. The book helps: • Assess the market potential of opportunities to find the right opportunity for your team • Find early adopters, quickly establish credibility and convince business stakeholders to work with you • Find and prioritize business problems in corporations and identify the stakeholders with the power to influence a purchase decision • Create a minimum viable product and a compelling offer, validate a solution and evaluate whether your team has found product-market fit • Identify and avoid common challenges faced by entrepreneurs and learn ninja techniques to speed up product-market validation « The book will pay itself off in the first couple of pages! » - Ben Sardella, Co-Founder, Datanyze ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 86% of Readers Rated it 5-Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ « Treat this book like a map to show you where you are and a compass to show you the direction. I wish I could have read it 2 or 3 years ago. » – Jonathan Gebauer, Founder, exploreB2B « Lean B2B is filled with rock-solid advice for technology entrepreneurs who want a rapid-growth trajectory. Read it to increase your certainty and your success rate. » - Jill Konrath, Author of AGILE SELLING and Selling to Big Companies « Probably the most slept on book in the Lean startup market right now.... There is no sugarcoating here. Garbugli tells you exactly what needs to happen and how to make it happen... literally holds your hand and spells it out. I was really impressed with the overall depth and advice presented. » - AJ, B2B Entrepreneur « The book I read of which I have learned the most. » - Etienne Thouin, Founder and CTO, SQLNext Software « This book is essential reading for would-be entrepreneurs who face the daunting task of entering B2B markets. » – Paul Gillin, Co-Author, Social Marketing to the Business Customer