Smart Hiring, 3rd Ed. (Smart Hiring at the Next Level: The Complete Guide to Finding & Hiring the Best Employees) [Paperback]

Robert W. Wendover (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2002 | Series: Smart Hiring at the Next Level: The Complete Guide to Finding & Hiring the Best Employees

"A quick, easy-to-read handbook."--Business Life
"Comprehensive guide to finding and hiring the best employees." --Bottom Line Business

Finding and hiring great employees is one of the most important things you do in business. Smart Hiring shows you how to hire the best candidates every time, in a legal and practical fashion. Filled with valuable information, including 500 great interview questions, this easy-to-use guide will help you build a successful and productive team.

Smart Hiring shows you how to:
--Test an applicant's skills
--Evaluate each candidate
--Conduct effective phone interviews
--Pick the best applicant for the job
--Take advantage of changes in the labor pool
--Land the candidate you want

Plus terrific time-saving worksheets for:
--Job descriptions and compensation
--Conducting a reference check
--Evaluating resumes and applications
--Creating an effective help-wanted ad

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.; 3 edition (October 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 140220003X
• ISBN-13: 978-1402200038
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,466,737 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Looking for Help, May 24, 2006

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F. M. Hardy (Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Smart Hiring, 3rd Ed. (Smart Hiring at the Next Level: The Complete Guide to Finding & Hiring the Best Employees) (Paperback)

I was specifically looking for information on obtaining references to forward to some of our other hiring managers and found some good suggestions. In doing this I came across even more help with how to review resumes and how to conduct good interviews. Specifically helpful were the questions to ask during interviews. And they're not generic but divided into categories for nonsupervisory, management and sales categories as well as giving specific questions for specific areas, i.e. a series of questions under management to determine management/supervisory skills. I've ordered this book for my store managers and other department heads who have no (or little) HR experience and they have found it a very useful resource book.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Should be Called Shallow Hiring, May 30, 2006

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Daniel Night "Do to others as you would have ... - See all my reviews

This review is from: Smart Hiring, 3rd Ed. (Smart Hiring at the Next Level: The Complete Guide to Finding & Hiring the Best Employees) (Paperback)

This is a decent book for learning about the basic hiring laws in the U.S. and things to avoid doing in general. It lacks good detailed examples of various types of problems you could run into, which would have made this book more valuable.

It covered personality tests, but did a mediocre job of it, only mentioning basic information on them.

The questions it provides for asking applicants are shallow and useless, especially for someone who isn't able to tell when someone is lying to them without any of the devices or methods this book mentions.

It leaves out two good and simplistic ways to determine whether an applicant is being honest and what type of personality they have overall (such as patient or impatient or moral or immoral.)

I don't recommend buying or reading this book unless you want to learn the basics quickly and aren't looking for anything deeper.