Smart Hiring: The Complete Guide to Finding and Hiring the Best Employees [Paperback]

Robert W. Wendover (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1997

Learn how to build the most critical part of your business--your employees.

Let Smart Hiring Take You to the Next Level!

Finding and keeping the right employees is critical to the success of your company. But with the tangle of legal and practical issues involved, the hiring process is often littered with mistakes--mistakes that can cost you money, customers, and your reputation.

Smart Hiring at the Next Level helps you sidestep the pitfalls that are tripping up the competition and shows you how to attract and hire the candidates who will put you on the road to success.

Inside, you will learn:

-Strategies for attracting the best candidates
-How to write effective ads and recruiting materials
-The 80 Percent Rule for assessing applicant suitability
-How to decode resume-speak and get the information you want
-Who should be involved in the hiring process
-How to tap into non-traditional labor sources
-The importance of job descriptions
-How to get honest feedback from employee references

Over 500 interview questions!

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Build the most critical part of your business-your employees.

Finding and keeping the right employees is critical to the success of your company. But with the tangle of legal and practical issues involved, the hiring process is often littered with mistakes-mistakes that can cost you money, customers and your reputation.

Smart Hiring helps you sidestep the pitfalls that are tripping up the competition and shows you how to attract and hire the candidates who will put you on the road to success.

Inside, you will learn how to:

--Attract the best candidates
--Write effective ads and recruiting materials
--Decode “resume speak” and get the information you want
--Decide who to involve in the hiring process
--Assess applicant suitability
--Tap into non-traditional labor sources
--Write accurate and useful job descriptions
--Get honest feedback from employee references

Over 500 great interview questions!

Robert W. Wendover has been writing on hiring and
other management topics for more than 20 years. He is the author of six books, including Two Minute Motivation: How to Inspire Superior Performance and Hey Dude! The Manager's Short Course on the Emerging Generations. He serves as Managing Director of the Center for Generational Studies, based in Aurora, Colorado. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc; 2nd edition (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570712131
• ISBN-13: 978-1570712135
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.1 x 0.8 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: #4,009,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good book to help you avoid costly mistakes, August 14, 2000

By 

Wayne D. Ford (Lincoln, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Smart Hiring: The Complete Guide to Finding and Hiring the Best Employees (Paperback)

Robert Wendover lays out a hiring method and some techniques for hiring better employees. If you hire people and finding the right people is important to you, I recommend this book.

Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author of "How to Spot a Liar in a Job Interview" and "How to Spot a Phony Resume" [e-mail]

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars USA Specific Information, September 4, 2001

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Daramola (Assen, Drenthe Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Smart Hiring: The Complete Guide to Finding and Hiring the Best Employees (Paperback)

For the international reader, specific information provided about what obtains in the USA may be excessive. It definitely is a good book to read for someone fresh into recruiting in the USA.