The Costs of Bad Hiring Decisions & How to Avoid Them, Second Edition [Paperback]

Carol Hacker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 26, 1998

In the business environment, hiring managers have two main goals: (1) hire the best people for your organization, and (2) contain costs. In order to do so, you must have a clear understanding of the impact that a bad hiring decision can have on your business.
The US Department of Labor estimates that the average cost of a bad hiring decision can equal 30% of the first year's potential earnings. While these results can be devastating, this is a problem which business can learn to avoid. By following the Carol Hacker's advice, you will gain a better understanding of the hiring process, and at the same time improve your hiring skills.
Loaded with practical advice for making sound selections, the text offers "hiring friendly" tips for everything from deciding whether to fill a vacancy, to defining the job and extending a job offer. Each of the book's five parts concentrates on an important aspect of hiring, and includes a checklist to help you remember important points.
This new Second Edition of the highly acclaimed book, The Costs of Bad Hiring Decisions & How to Avoid Them, is still the only book to address the real costs of bad hiring decisions and their devastating effects, and to offer 130 tips for avoiding them. This superb guide is easy to read and should be required reading for everyone who makes hiring decisions.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 2 edition (May 26, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1574442171
• ISBN-13: 978-1574442175
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,900,120 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

By A Customer

This review is from: The Costs of Bad Hiring Decisions & How to Avoid Them, Second Edition (Paperback)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, January 23, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Costs of Bad Hiring Decisions and How To Avoid Them (St Lucie) (Paperback)

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.

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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This review is from: The Costs of Bad Hiring Decisions & How to Avoid Them, Second Edition (Paperback)

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" [e-mail]