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Carol Hacker (Author)
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February 15, 1996 St Lucie
The average cost of a bad hiring decision can be one-third of the annual salary if the decision is discovered and corrected within the first six months that the new employee is on the job. If discovered later, the costs go up. Add legal fees and possible out-of-court settlements, and the numbers increase.
A bad hiring decision is a bad investment, one that all organizations try to avoid. In fact, the point can be made that bad hiring decisions escalate the longer the decision is not addressed or goes unnoticed. Costs can be attributed to the added expense of training replacements, the inefficiency replacements bring to the job during the learning process, fees paid to recruitment agencies, travel and advertising expenses, interviewers' salaries and benefits, and much, much more.
The Costs of Bad Hiring Decisions and How to Avoid Them is loaded with practical, easy-to-read, and understandable tips for making sound and defensible hiring decisions. Avoid poor choices that drain profits from your company or agency. Keep your employment choices healthy and profitable. Don't hire arbitrarily. Avoid hiring on gut reaction alone. Your budget can't afford a devastating blow. From deciding what you're looking for in a candidate, to extending a job offer verbally and in writing, this book will prove to be a valuable resource.

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  • Paperback: 253 pages
  • Publisher: CRC Press (February 15, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1574440276
  • ISBN-13: 978-1574440270
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,245,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read for supervisors, managers & business owners, July 7, 1999
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This book helped our management team get a handle on improving our hiring process. We adopted it as our handbook, had Carol teach the workshop that goes with the book and cut our turnover in one-half within 30 days due to better hiring decisions. My supervisors stopped hit and miss hiring and learned through reading and the workshop how to focus on finding the right people for the positions they had open. They also learned how to use behavior-based questions in the interview process which immediately made a difference in the way they interfaced with applicants. The Costs of Bad Hiring Decisions & How to Avoid Them truly taught us some lessons we had not learned up until this point.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, January 23, 2003
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This book is a great guide for anyone who is responsible for hiring. It's well-written and to the point. I found myself picking it up and putting it down as I had time. I bought copies for each of my managers.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A good guide to avoiding bad hires, August 15, 2000
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Wayne D. Ford (Lincoln, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Carol Hacker has done a service to those who are serious about weeding out the costly bad hires that are waiting out there to harm your organization. She makes excellent points and warns about the huge costs of making a mistake.

Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author of "How to Spot a Liar in a Job Interview" and "How to Spot a Phony Resume" docwifford@msn.com

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