Hiring Right: A Business Blueprint for Lower Turnover and Higher Profits [Paperback]

Pat Kelley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2004

Hiring Right gives you down-to earth, practical, easy-to-use tools to help you lower the costs of turnover and increase bottom-line profits. You'll learn how to find the applicant who is the right match for the job; identify employees who will stay with the company rather than leave; identify employees whose job performance will be well above average; figure out when someone is lying on an application or in an interview, and much more.

Hiring Right includes five specific, step-by-step blueprints--everything you need to hire for positions in sales, entry level labor, clerical and administrative, technical, or managerial positions. Plus, there are dozens of first-hand tips on recruiting, interviewing, checking references, and every phase of the hiring process.

Editorial Reviews

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"Hiring Right is MUST reading for every supervisor with hiring authority." -- Ed Parrish, Executive Recruiter

"Hiring Right is the most comprehensive and informative book on the subject. I enthusiastically recommend this book!" -- Dr. Larry Craft, CEO, CraftSystems, Inc.

"If Pat Kelley does it, you can trust it to be solid, proven, practical and easy to learn." -- Jim Cathcart, Author, Relationship Selling

About the Author

Pat Kelley is a consultant and writer with more than 30 years' experience helping companies increase employee productivity and company profits. She has worked in the banking, manufacturing, food processing and services industries. Her consulting practice specializes in leadership development and reducing new-hire turnover.

Product Details

• Paperback: 210 pages
• Publisher: HPG Press (May 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974767603
• ISBN-13: 978-0974767604
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,382,664 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An extremely helpful book, June 9, 2004

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"tjandkong" (FSM, AR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hiring Right: A Business Blueprint for Lower Turnover and Higher Profits (Paperback)

This is one of those books many of us wish we had had 25 years ago. Personally it would have saved me many hours of aimless work and some dreadfully poor interviews in which I did not hear what the prospect was clearly saying. This would have saved me some bad hires. They are expensive. This is one of those books I read and kept spilling my coffee from slapping my forehead and saying "DOH! Of course!"

Ms. Kelley does an excellent job of covering the theories of employment law--a real, expensive and complicated snake-pit--and then in cutting to the chase and giving the reader a step-by-step on what to do and when. I like step-by-step. I was married once, and I can do that.

When a person with her credentials says, "Do this, then this," I can do that with some precision. I don't have to deal with the theory if I don't want to. I can cut to the chase, which is what she does. One is always aware of nuances in hiring. She teaches one how to cover the basics.

I hired "creative" people and one expects a 10-15% Flake Factor. Her principles weed out the psychopaths from your average creative person.

Whether you are an entry-level hirer or an old poot like me, this is a simply great book. Using it will save you a lot of grief.

I have been to $800 seminars about hiring that did not teach me as much as this book did.

5.0 out of 5 stars Packed With Helpful Info, May 13, 2004

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Fredrick T. Green "pedants of the world unite!" (Bartlesville, OK United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hiring Right: A Business Blueprint for Lower Turnover and Higher Profits (Paperback)

This book is packed with extremely useful information from cover to cover. As a small business owner, my experience with hiring employees is limited, but Hiring Right has definitely improved my ability to evaluate not only potential employees but also what type of worker we actually need as well as how to find them.

Pat Kelley writes in an easy-to-understand style that makes reading Hiring Right a real pleasure. She masterfully combines big-picture overviews, great examples, useful tips and detailed information to make this book a complete resource for professional human resource managers and business owners.