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Hire Tough, Manage Easy : How to Find and Hire the Best Hourly Employees

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This book should be on anyone's desk or in anyone's briefcase who has anything to do with recruiting, selecting and retaining employees. It is filled with easy to understand and even easier to implement strong, solid ideads about hiring systems. I have saved my company a considerable amount of time, money and grief by not hiring some candidates through just a few of Mr. Kleiman's ideas.

This book states in very simple terms the most practical and useful ideas on how to recruit and retain employees under all market conditions. It is very valuable in this period of negative unemployment. My company has about 500 openings for skilled craftpeople and using the ideas in this book has given us real hope of success in finding these folks. We are building the Opportunity Company and this book's approach is right in line with our objective.

Chet Harris, Senior Vice President Human Resources, AMPAM Inc. Round Rock , Tx

Great ideas to find excellent candidates and create a system where you always attract and retain top talent. Many of the places to find top candidates depend on the characteristics of your top candidate. The book helps you walk through listing those key characteristics and then where to go find those candidates. The interviewing is also key with many ideas how to test a candidate, without calling it a test.

"Hire Tough, Manage Easy" is a book I will recommend to my clients, and use to support many of my training classes. The book is easy to read and follow. The information has a strong foundation of credibility and techniques that apply to "real" hiring and interviewing situations.

Amy Adolph - Training Horizons tel. (530)218-3791

While this book is now 10 years old, its practical advice is as relevant today as 1999. Even more so! If a manager would follow Mel's advice, they would soon realize the dividends that follow recruiting and hiring the best person they can.

As a worker in the human resources field for many years I have seen my share of the costly consequences of hiring the wrong person and then mismanaging the situation thereafter. It causes great harm in many ways to the organization and even greater harm to the poor soul that you have decided to place in the wrong slot.

I highly recommend this oldie goldie to anyone with authority to hire. I have referred to it regularly in the past years and I can assure you of getting a good ROI.

Michael L. Gooch, SPHR

This might be a good book for a new manager who has never interviewed before, but too basic for a seasoned manager or HR professional.