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Hire With Your Head: Using POWER Hiring to Build Great Teams, 2nd Edition

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The second edition of Lou Adler's Hire with Your Head takes the best of the original concepts and updates it with the latest insights on interviewing and the entire selection process. I've been able to introduce the POWER Hiring concepts to a major professional services with significant results including better retention and a reputation as an employer of choice. I've seen hundred's of clients report more confidence in their ability to accurately interview candidates.

One excellent example of this update should be a revelation to many managers and human resource professionals who have been inundated with books recommending the "152 Best Interview Questions." It's the answers, not the questions that count. Adler's POWER Hiring formula recognizes the importance of getting and properly evaluating candidate answers.

From the starting point of Performance Profiles to the insights on the latest recruiting tips, Lou Adler courageously tells managers and HR professionals what they're not doing right -- and what to do to make it right.

It's rare that I read both a first and second edition of the same book -- but this second edition captivated me with every chapter.

OK let's get it out there... people who have very little to live for read business books. 99% of the stuff written is of the most egregious quality known to mankind -- people with any sense avoid the business section in any bookstore. It is the special writer indeed that can make their experiences relevant to the rest of us, impart knowledge and wisdom, who goes beyond the pump-me-up-and-let's-all-feel-good-and-happy-clappy version of corporate America -- the kind commonly encouraged in some national sales conventions. You know! The type that tries to convince you they have secrets of business success by regaling you with stories on how important their "new" business discoveries really are, when really they are variations on the benefits such banal things as getting up early, not watching too much TV, changing your socks, and giving people hell the occassional time (preferably all of the above done based upon some abstruse mathematical formulation).

No... Lou Adler is the real thing. Not full of beans or full of himself most of the time. The advice he gives is practical, well organised and starts with the premise that, when you hire someone you should use the job as the screen for the candidate -- in order to draw those qualities out of the candidate and also to organise your presentation of the job. Adler says, "do not start with percieved requirements of the position" as these do not deliver the results needed.

There is a lot of technical detail and healthy, not corny or forced anecdotal evidence such as is legion in most of this genre.

I have seen Lou Adler on two occassions and can concur that he is one of the most down-to-earth people you can meet. In a world rife with industry setting unrealistic targets Lou is able to lay it on the line and tell you what you need to do and not what you want to do. There is no percieved, strained intellectualism or claims of revealed truth or knowledge that you get in other such reads as Zig Ziglar or Gerardi, or (horror or horrors, Wess Roberts -- author of the worst sales coaching book in history "The Leadership Secrets of Atilla the Hun).

I have recommended it for my corporate clients on occasion and can do so with a straight face and strong measure of encouragement. It actually reinforced those elements of hiring that we were doing right, and forced us to change those elements we were doing wrong - can there ever be a stronger recommendation for any book?

Lou Adler, president of the Power Hiring consulting and training company, provides a systematic approach for finding, interviewing and hiring the best candidate for a job. He emphasizes making an objective assessment and, to this end, he provides techniques for overcoming first impressions. He identifies four key interview questions you can use to determine job candidates' competency and motivation, and to match their skills and interests to your company's needs. The book includes charts and checklists that highlight important points. We recommend this well-organized guide to effective hiring to company owners, human resource personnel and managers involved in the hiring process. Alert job seekers may also find it useful to learn what a good interview will demand.

This book is right on. My associates and I use the methodology from Hire With Your Head to sucessfully find, assess, and hire great sales people in record time. If you have a real need to hire the best, this book is a must read!

I have used POWER Hiring extensively in my executive search practice and have introduced the concepts to my clients. We have found the principles and concepts developed by Lou Adler to dramatically improve the quality of our client hires. Additionally it has allowed the transition by the candidate to their new role as employee to be smoother, with much clearer expectations. The result has been happier clients and candidates with fewer "surprises" as the employee assumed their new position. I would highly recommend Lou's book to anyone that wants to dramatically improve the quality of their hires.

Thank you Mr. Adler for introducing me to Profile Assessments. I am now hiring right for the first time ever. I never thought you could learn so much about an applicant when using assessments. I am now hiring better quality people that actually fit into our organization.

Again thank you for bringing my hiring process into the 21st Century and beyond!

I highly recommend Lou Adler's book, Hiring with Your Head, for any hiring manager seeking to hiring the best talent. Hiring with Your Head provides an overview of a proven systematic approach for hiring superior people by focusing on their past performance rather than relying on intuition.

Lou Adler provides a methodology for critically assessing candidates' potential for evaluating how well their past accomplishments meet the requirements for a position. He also goes into depth on how to successfully source and recruit talented individuals to your company.

This is by far the best book about hiring recently written. It's obvious Mr. Adler has been there. His expertise is clearly evident on every page. He takes the perspective of the hiring manager, the candidate, and the recruiter and shows how to bring everyone into the process.

It's clear this is not a book about interviewing. It is a book about hiring great people. While interviewing is a part of it, Mr. Adler clearly shows that understanding job needs, recruiting, sourcing, negotiating offers, and maintaining objectivity are the keys to hiring the best.

If you want to hire great people this is one book you should add to your library.

I've worked in fortune 500 companies as well as smaller organizations and Lou Adler's approach to performance-based hiring is unmatched. I've used his approach to take a small start-up company from 5 people to seventy-five people in less than eight months, and it made a tremendous difference in the quality of the people we hired. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in building a great team.

I was very dispointed with this book. If Lou Adler wasn't so busy trying to criticize hiring managers, he might have had time to write about how to effectively build great teams. Hiring the Best: A Manager's Guide to Effective Interviewing by Martin Yate is a better book to invest your time in.