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21. |  Seven Rules for Hiring Extraordinary Talent: A Business Story By: Richard J. Pinsker CMC, FIMC Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2009 Insert Date: 16-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Seven Rules for Hiring Extraordinary Talent: A Business Story
Have you ever hired someone whom you never should have hired in the first place? If your answer is "Yes", you're not alone. Few hiring managers have been taught to hire successfully. Since hiring is a decision that will have a huge impact on a company's most important assets—its employees—leaving hiring to chance seems unreasonable. There is no magic in making good hiring decisions; it's a skill anyone can learn. In Seven Rules for Hiring Extraordinary Talent, the author brings his thirty years of experience working with companies to find, select and hire key employees to life. The Seven...
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22. |  The Manager's Pocket Guide to Interviewing and Hiring Top Performers By: Sarah J. Ennis Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2002 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manager's Pocket Guide to Interviewing and Hiring Top Performers
Today's tight labor market is forcing organizations to maximize the time they spend attracting and keeping top performers. Organizations that can attract, inspire,and retain top performers are in the position to beat out their competition. This is true both in market share and being able to draw outstanding employees. This book is for individuals with training responsibilities who are looking for tools to help their managers, supervisors, and/or team leaders interview, hire, and retain top performers. If you or someone in your hiring system has limited experience in interviewing and...
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23. |  The Manager's Pocket Guide to Recruiting the Workforce of the Future By: Bruce Tulgan Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2000 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manager's Pocket Guide to Recruiting the Workforce of the Future
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Recruiting the Workforce of the Future will show employers faced with a lean, post-downsizing organization in the midst of a tight labor market, how to develop and implement hiring solutions. Employers should no longer recruit for the long term, but to get the job done today, tomorrow, and next week. The key to continued success for companies now is the ability to adapt rapidly to new circumstances. Staffing may have to expand quickly in one skill area, or contract quickly in another, or do both at the same time. Strategies for staffing must therefore be...
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24. |  By: Sean Landis Publisher: Artima Press Publication Date: 25-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 18-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Agile Hiring
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25. |  Successful Interviewing and Recruitment By: Rob Yeung Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 28-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 15-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Successful Interviewing and Recruitment
A straightforward guide to structuring interviews, Successful Interviewing and Recruitment spells out how to hire the best candidates to help grow your business and increase its productivity.
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26. |  By: Mike Bryon; Sanjay Modha Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 15-APR-2011 Insert Date: 15-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Pass Selection Tests
How to Pass Selection Tests will help anyone who faces employers' tests, providing expert advice and practice material.
The first part of the book advises candidates on the different types of test, why they are used, how to prepare for them, how to develop a successful test strategy, and how to deal with anxiety. The second part of the book contains hundreds of practice psychometric questions, both verbal and numerical, which are relevant to some of the most common types of test used for selection purposes. By working through these, candidates will be able to familiarize themselves with...
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27. |  The Graduate Psychometric Test Workbook By: Mike Bryon Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 16-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 15-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Graduate Psychometric Test Workbook
Employers want to fill their top management posts with candidates of the highest caliber. Any mistake in their recruitment process can mean wasteful costs in both time and money. Consequently, recruitment to any management post follows a rigorous selection which can include a range of psychometric tests.
The Graduate Psychometric Test Workbook provides essential preparation for graduates or managers who face psychometric tests. With correct training and practice candidates can improve their scores, and this workbook provides that opportunity.
This second edition contains even more...
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28. |  By: Rebecca Corfield Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 28-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 15-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Successful Interview Skills
Everyone at some point in their life will have to attend an interview. Whether they are applying for a job, a promotion, a training program, or college admission, they’ll likely have an interview. The need to create a good impression will be essential.
Now in its fifth edition, this useful guide shows readers how to portray professionalism and confidence and take control of the interview process. Breaking the process down into accessible steps, Rebecca Corfield identifies the way to prepare for an interview, providing example questions and advice on how to answer them. There are also...
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29. |  Unbeatable Resumes: America’s Top Recruiter Reveals What REALLY Gets You Hired By: Tony Beshara; Phil Mcgraw Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 16-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 19-MAY-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Unbeatable Resumes: America’s Top Recruiter Reveals What REALLY Gets You Hired
Need serious help with your resume? Turn to the employment expert Dr.Phil calls the best of the best!
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30. |  Match: A Systematic, Sane Process for Hiring the Right Person Every Time By: Dan Erling Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 28-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Match: A Systematic, Sane Process for Hiring the Right Person Every Time Hire the right person-every time!Why is it that so many companies accept mediocre hiring results as the norm? The answer is simple. It doesn't occur to them that, in fact, there is a process that virtually guarantees hiring the right person every time. To repeat: there is a process that virtually guarantees hiring the right person every time. That's what MATCH is about.Based on author Dan Erling's experience with best practices from over a thousand companies, MATCH gives you a rock solid, practical process for hiring.MATCH takes you step-by-step through the lifecycle of hiring, from...
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31. |  Million Dollar Hire: Build Your Bottom Line, One Employee at a Time By: David P. Jones Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 05-APR-2011 Insert Date: 29-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Million Dollar Hire: Build Your Bottom Line, One Employee at a Time
Tools for translating recruiting and hiring decisions into financial returns
Even in a down economy, U.S. business and government make millions of hiring decisions every year. Every decision carries risk. Every hire is an investment. Ideally, every one pays a return. In today's demanding environment, companies no longer have room to get it wrong. Million-Dollar Hire shows how leading companies have re-invented themselves, beat their competition, and added millions to their bottom lines with re-engineered recruiting and hiring practices. Using practical, real world illustrations, it shows...
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32. |  By: Elisabeth Pankl; Danielle Theiss-White; Mary C. Bushing Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 28-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 05-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 |
Recruitment, Development, and Retention of Information Professionals: Trends in Human Resources and Knowledge Management highlights issues specific to information professionals (IPs) working in an academic environment. The evolution of scholarly communications and applications of technology are forcing IPs to reevaluate the way they operate. This book offers valuable insight into the newest strategies for thinking creatively and resourcefully about the latest trends in recruitment, retention, and professional development.
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33. |  By: Carol A. Silvis M. Ed. Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 09-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Job Hunting After 50 JOB HUNTING AFTER 50 is for people fifty years of age and older who are looking for a job. It addresses the issues they face in seeking jobs and encourages them to take an inventory of their skills and abilities through exercises and lists to find out what sets them apart from other job seekers. The book covers self-assessment of skills and qualifications, preparing a resume for today's market, dressing with style, using technology to find a job, indentifying mistakes made by over fifty job seekers and how to avoid them, and job interviewing skills. Emphasis is placed on updating skills,...
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Find (and Keep) Top Talent for Your Business (Collection) By: Cathy Fyock; David Russo; Rusty Rueff; Vince Thompson; Hank Stringer; Martha I. Finney Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 04-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 14-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Find (and Keep) Top Talent for Your Business (Collection) Win the talent wars! 4 expert guides to
finding the best people — and keeping them!
Four books packed with actionable guidance
on finding, keeping, and leveraging great talent! Leverage your
networks to reshape your career and organization… build a
workforce that’s truly engaged, aligned with strategy, and
capable of incredible performance… consistently put great
people in the right roles… master 53 proven principles and
bite-size techniques for hiring the best… and much
more!
From world-renowned leaders and experts,
including
Vince Thompson, David Russo, Rusty Rueff, Hank
Stringer,...
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The Truth About Improving Your Hiring Skills (Collection) By: Martha I. Finney; Cathy Fyock; Stephen P. Robbins; Leigh L. Thompson Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 03-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 28-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Truth About Improving Your Hiring Skills (Collection) 150 powerful bite-size solutions for
hiring more successfully – and making sure your new hires
succeed!
Three full books of practical guidance on
making the right hires, and getting the most out of everyone you
hire! Discover how to make great people want to work for you…
ask the right questions in every interview… engage employees
and build engaged cultures… overcome obstacles to
communication… improve your evaluations… cure
“layoff survivor sickness”…and much
more!
From world-renowned leaders and experts,
including
Martha I. Finney, Cathy Fyock, and Stephen
P. Robbins...
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The Truth About Recruiting the Top Talent By: Cathy Fyock Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 29-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Truth About Recruiting the Top Talent This Element is an excerpt from The Truth
About Hiring the Best (9780132381864), by Cathy Fyock.
Available in print and digital formats.
A simple plan for recruiting top
talent–-in any industry, at any level.
If the best candidates aren’t working
for your organization, they are probably working for your
competitor. To compete successfully for the best and brightest,
first identify who your competitors are for your first-choice
employees. They aren’t just your competitors for market
share. They could be anyone–-especially when you are
looking for entry-level, hourly, and clerical workers....
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Looking for the Right People: Hiring for Attitude and for Skill By: James F. Parker Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 30-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 10-JUL-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Looking for the Right People: Hiring for Attitude and for Skill This Element is an excerpt from Do the
Right Thing: How Dedicated Employees Create Loyal Customers and
Large Profits (9780132343343) by James F. Parker. Available in
print and digital formats.
What you can learn from Southwest Airlines
about recruiting and hiring: how to get the best without
necessarily paying the most!
Every year, Southwest Airlines receives well
over 100,000 resumes, from which it may hire 1 or 2 percent of the
applicants. One pundit did a statistical analysis and concluded
that it was more difficult for an aspirant to be hired at Southwest
Airlines than it was to be...
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The Truth About Effective Job Candidate Interviewing Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 14-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 21-JUN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Truth About Effective Job Candidate Interviewing This Element is an excerpt from The Truth
About Managing People (9780132346030), by Stephen P. Robbins.
Available in print and digital formats.
Why your applicants’ personality
traits won’t tell you how they’ll perform–and
what they will tell you.
What are you looking for in your job
applicants? If you’re like many managers, you’ll answer
with terms such as hardworking, persistent, confident, and
dependable. After all, how can you go wrong trying to hire people
with traits such as these? Well, you can! The problem is that
traits aren’t necessarily good predictors of future job
performance....
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Recruiting with Social Media: Social Media’s Impact on Recruitment and HR By: Raj Anand Publisher: Que Publication Date: 03-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 29-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Recruiting with Social Media: Social Media’s Impact on Recruitment and HR Social media can transform the way you
recruit. Using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social
media platforms, you can connect with great new sources of talent
faster and more effectively than ever before. You’ll
learn how to use social media to build an open, engaging two-way
conversation with potential employees…target job advertising
more efficiently and at lower cost…choose the right tools and
platforms…. Packed with real case studies and actionable
lessons, Recruiting with Social Media will help you recruit
quality staff faster and at a lower cost....
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40. |  Performance Appraisals & Phrases For Dummies® By: Ken Lloyd Publisher: For Dummies Publication Date: 08-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 29-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Performance Appraisals & Phrases For Dummies®
The tools you need to enrich the performance-appraisal experience as you streamline the process
Whether you're a manger looking to implement employee appraisals for the first time, concerned with improving the quality and effectiveness of the appraisal process, or simply trying to save time and mental anguish Performance Appraisals & Phrases For Dummies provides the tools you need to save time and energy while presenting fair and accurate evaluations that foster employee growth.
This convenient, portable package includes a full-length appraisal phrasebook featuring over 3,200 spot-on...
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