Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees (Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting and Orienting New Employees) [Hardcover]

Diane Arthur (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0814408613 | ISBN-13: 978-0814408612 | Publication Date: December 6, 2005 | Edition: 4th

For almost 20 years, "Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting and Orienting New Employees" has been the go-to reference on every aspect of the employment process. Known for its practical and down-to-earth approach and jargon-free tone, the book is now in its Fourth Edition, which includes fresh information on today's biggest staffing challenges. The new edition provides thorough coverage of new issues such as peer interviews and video interviewing, documentation and reference-checking challenges, new orientation programs, and more.

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Book Description

"Nothing is more important to the productivity of an organization than its hiring program. For almost 20 years, this book has been the go-to reference on every aspect of the employment process.

Known for its practical and down-to-earth approach and jargon-free tone, Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees is now in its Fourth Edition, with fresh information on today's recruitment challenges, interview methods such as peer interviewing and video interviews, documentation issues, reference-checking guidelines, and new orientation programs. Readers will also find expanded coverage of electronic recruiting and other recruitment sources, applicant testing, and much more.

The book comes packed with a full complement of step-by-step guidelines, ready-to-use interview questions and scripts, forms and checklists, and other valuable hiring tools that will help get great employees on board quickly and effectively."

About the Author

Diane Arthur (Northport, NY) is president of Arthur Associates Management Consultants, Ltd., a human resources development firm. She has more than 30 years of experience as a consultant, workshop leader, and lecturer, and is the author of several books on human resources management.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: AMACOM; 4th edition (December 6, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814408613
• ISBN-13: 978-0814408612
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #283,113 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Diane Arthur is the founder of Arthur Associates Management Consultants, Ltd. Human Resource Development Specialists. For the past 25 years she has provided training and consulting services to numerous organizations in all facets of HR including: the essential components of HR; recruiting, interviewing, and selecting new employees; orientation; performance management; employment law; sexual harassment; training and development; job descriptions; verbal, written and nonverbal communication; employer/employee relations; coaching and counseling; employee handbooks; career planning; retention; and the changing role of HR.

Prior to founding Arthur Associates Diane worked as an HR generalist in both nonprofit and corporate work environments.

Diane's signature writing style is simultaneously informative and conversational. She is the author of several books including: five editions of "Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees" (also published in Colombia, the People's Republic of China and India); "The First-Time Manager's Guide to Performance Appraisals" (also published in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan); "The Complete Human Resources Writing Guide;" "The Employee Recruitment and Retention Handbook;" two editions of "Managing Human Resources in Small and Mid-Sized Companies;" and "Workplace Testing." She is also the author of several self-study programs including: Performance Appraisals: Strategies for Success; Fundamentals of HR Management 4th Edition; Successful Interviewing; and Success Through Assertiveness, as well as articles for magazines and periodicals such as National Business Employment Weekly; Management Solutions; Supervisory Management; and HR Focus.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Text and Reference, February 11, 2006

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Roger E. Herman (Greensboro, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting and Orienting New Employees (Hardcover)

This book addresses what is arguably the most critical area in running any organization today. Without the right people on the team, employers will confront one costly problem after another. Bringing the best people on board the right way can make a tremendous difference in an organization's success. The answers await you in these pages.

As a reader of this review, you should know that I am a Certified Management Consultant who specializes in workforce and workplace issues. I am very much involved in the subjects addressed in this book and stay current in the field. I do not know the author.

I was impressed with the comprehensiveness and timeliness of this book's content. Looking with a critical eye, I found very little to change or add. The vital topics are well-covered, and the few things I may have added are not essential to the human resources practices involved in bringing the right people into organizations the right way.

Readers can gain a considerable amount of valuable knowledge reading this book from cover to cover. In fact, I would encourage business students at the graduate or undergraduate level to read this volume and become comfortable with the abundance of knowledge and wisdom offered in these pages. That said, this book will stand as an easy-to-use reference resource for human resource professionals and senior line managers and executives

The book is well-written, using language that makes it easy to read and easy to use. The 15 high-content chapters are supplemented by eight appendices providing forms for use in the recruiting-hiring process. The text includes guidelines, questions and scripts for interviews, checklists, and focused explanations. Summaries at the end of each chapter are followed by end-notes that will enable the reader to dig even deeper into a specific subject in the rare event that the chapter presentation hasn't covered it enough.

As you might expect, the Fourth (2006) Edition is current down to Sarbanes-Oxley and the latest in on-line recruiting. I'm often skeptical of books that carry the higher prices-this one is $49.95, but in this case I have no problem validating the cost-benefit of investing that kind of money...and probably a lot more.

A word to seasoned human resource professionals who think they have most-if not all-of the answers because they've been working in the field since it was called "Personnel:" You need this book. It's current, it's deep, and it's comprehensive. If you have not seen the previous editions, you will be blown away by the power of this book. Your incredibly busy schedule not withstanding, you'll find yourself investing time reading what Diane Arthur has to share about what's happening right now in your field.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A road map for HR practitioners, May 1, 2001

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Turgay BUGDACIGIL (Istanbul, Turkey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees (Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting and Orienting New Employees) (Hardcover)

Diane Arthur's 'Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees' is a must read! As she writes, "Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, and orienting new employees are specific skills. How well you practice these skills can directly affect many common organizational problems, such as turnover, employee morale, and absenteeism. By carefully implementing the methods described in this book, your organization can greatly improve its employer-employee relations and its level of productivity."

With revised, updated and newly added chapters, this book is a resource full of practical, straightforward samples and explanations of what works and doesn't work.

Highly recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reference Book, August 19, 2009

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This review is from: Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees (Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting and Orienting New Employees) (Hardcover)

This book wraps everything in to a nice bundle for HR personnel to recruit and hire employees. It is an easy read and discusses many useful topics. Although it does not relate to current laws, it does refer the reader to check on state laws to determine discrepancies in suggested methods.

I found the book so useful for an HR course, that I am now using it in the classroom.

M.C.