High Impact Hiring Is Your Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Interviews that Get Results and Eliminate Costly Hiring Mistakes. This Book Will Show You How Easy it is to: Uncover an often overlooked set of competencies that are responsible for almost all job failures; Build a job-related interview that gets you solid, reliable information about a job candidate’s skills; Use the Response Pyramid and SAFE techniques to learn about a candidate’s strengths and weaknesses. High Impact Hiring is clear and easy to follow. It’s loaded with practical examples and expert advice.
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Del J. Still has a background in engineering and manufacturing management, as well as education, training, and organization development. He has held executive positions at Memorex Corporation, Hewlett Packard Company, ROLM Telecommunications, and Advanced Micro Devices. He served as Master Trainer for Behavioral Technology (Memphis, TN) for 10 years from 1986 to 1996. He is the founder and a principal of Management Development Systems, a company formed in 1986. The company specializes in training program design and development. His company has deployed dozens of training programs for several of the 'Fortune 100' companies.
Del most recently served as Senior Vice President, Training & Implementation for The Gates-Brewer Group, LLC a software development company specializing in compliance training applications. He has designed and deployed both classroom and web-based training programs for the company and has assisted in the implementation of several software installations for a variety of clients. Under his leadership, he and his staff have produced more than 50 management training programs that have been used to train thousands of supervisors, managers and other professionals.
Dr. Still received his Bachelor's degree from the California State University. He earned an MBA at the University of Santa Clara and completed his doctoral work at the University of Southern California. He is in demand as a speaker and presenter for numerous conventions and seminars. Del has lectured at the University of California, Stanford University, and the University of Santa Clara. He taught management and supervision for eight years at West Valley College in Saratoga, California He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and other leading publications. A video (How to Interview and Hire the Best)based on one of his books has been produced and distributed by Communications Briefings Publishing Group. His interviewing advice column can be found at http://www.jobs.com in the employer resources area.
Dr. Still is also the author of High Impact Hiring. This book is based on more than 20 years of research and practical experience in interviewing hundreds of job candidates and training more than 30,000 interviewers.. He is also the developer of Behavior Based Interviewing. This workshop teaches the skills and techniques needed to select superior performers for a job. Behavior Based Interviewing has enabled his clients to save countless thousands of dollars by building an outstanding workforce and avoiding costly hiring mistakes.
