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High-Impact Hiring

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At last, I found a book about hiring that treats me like I can think. This book is readable and has a lot of depth. The authors get you to think through where you are trying to go with your business as the first part of hiring. I got a lot out of that focus. Then they have solid information about what tools to use for good hiring. High-Impact Hiring shows you how to structure an interview, but also how to use other tools like tests and reference checks. They show you how to design your own performance tests. Their decision-making tools are cool--there's a decision table that helps you make sure you don't hire a disaster and sorts out all the information you've got. If you just want an interviewing book, you could get one of the other "hiring" books--though High-Impact Hiring's treatment of interviewing was the best I've read. This book that gives you a system, gives you knowledge and tools, and treats you with respect.

A very comprehensive book on recruitment and selection. I found it especially useful on its coverage of interviewing and tests. Its coverage of structured and unstructured interviews as well as the five factors approach to personality tests is fairly extensive and substantiated with rationale. Very logically written and well sign-posted with appropriate sub-headings; it is very easy to follow the logic as well as easy to search any particular aspect of recruitment you need to check. Even the experienced recruiter will find it useful to refresh his or her skills. The authors have removed the mystery and ambiguity often associated with successful recruitment. Anybody who is in the hiring business should get a copy and read it.

I used this book to design our company's hiring process, and found it helpful for all stages from job descriptions, interviewing, applications to offer letters. The quality of our hiring has improved significantly; all of the people we have hired since are still making major contributions to the company.

This is a great book that teaches hiring managers how to do excellent selection. Rosse and Levin lay out the theoritical, legal, and practical aspects of hiring the best people possible. I really respect their honestly. They are up front in that they aren't trying to sell snake oil and they aren't trying to say that their method will generate the best hire 100% of the time. Their approach is both experience and empirical based. The language is straight forward without being dumbed down.

The only minor flaw I saw was that the authors cut a little bit of the corners with describing reliability and validity. Some of their definition of reliability could actually probably be considered internal validity and their description of content validity is probably more along the lines of the definition of face validity. However, that's a minor gripe. The intended audience were general management people rather than SPHRs and I/O psychologists (though HR and I/O psychologists could still probably get some things out of the book).

Highly recommended for those who want to improve their hiring systems.