Help Wanted & Help Found: The insiders' guide to recruiting & hiring hourly workers. - Softcover

Shawn C. Boyer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615214738 ISBN 13: 9780615214733

Publisher: SnagAJob.com, 2009

Synopsis

There are hundreds if not thousands of books espousing best practices for recruiting salaried employees. But what about the nation's army of hourly workers, which includes more than 70 million Americans and makes up the backbone of our economy?

In Help Wanted & Help Found: The insiders' guide to recruiting & hiring hourly workers, Shawn Boyer demystifies America's revolving door of frontline workers while getting supporting insights from the industry's elite. The reason that the author can expose hourly recruitment and retention best practices from an insider's perspective is because he is one: Boyer is the Founder & CEO of SnagAJob.com, the nation's number one source for hourly employment. Additionally, Boyer was selected as the U.S. Small Business Administration's 2008 National Small Business Person of the Year.

In his first book, part roadmap for hourly recruitment success and part compelling case study roundup from America's top companies, Boyer shows businesses how to connect specific strategy and tactics to bottom-line benefits. He demonstrates how identifying key objectives and metrics can help both Fortune 500 companies and small- to medium-size business reap real rewards by first getting a candid look at their recruitment and hiring practices, and then streamlining them with a collection of simple, repeatable processes that have a proven track record in the hourly hiring marketplace.

The accessible book is intuitively organized so readers can hone right in on the topics they're most curious about. Should a company take on cutting-edge recruitment tactics such as advertising its positions on niche job websites? How can you leverage successful hourly employees into a dependable new hire resource? These are just a few of the questions Boyer answers.

Rich with compelling anecdotes and winning advice from companies including Starbucks and Kohl's, Help Wanted & Help Found is a must-read for everyone from corner office HR executives to frontline hiring managers. Plus, interactive exercises allow readers to put their newfound knowledge to the test right away.

With more than 60 percent of America's workforce employed in hourly positions, it was about time those charged with their recruitment finally had a guidebook of best practices, foundational knowledge and industry trend analysis. Help Wanted & Help Found: The insiders' guide to recruiting & hiring hourly workers was well worth the wait.

Just named by QSR Magazine as one of five recommended summer reads for hiring managers!

About this title

About the Author

Shawn Boyer is founder and chief executive officer of SnagAJob.com. Boyer has directed the company's rapid growth from start-up to the nation's largest hourly job site. His insights on the hourly workforce have appeared in places such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Associated Press, TODAY, CNN and in daily newspapers throughout the nation.

Boyer was named the 2008 National Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration, and met President George W. Bush to be publicly recognized for his success in creating a Web site to help unemployed Americans find work. SnagAJob.com was also recently selected as the third best small company to work for in America by the Society for Human Resource Management and the Great Place to Work Institute.

Prior to founding SnagAJob.com in 1999, Boyer was a transactional attorney with the law firm of Brown & Wood LLP (now Sidley Austin, LLP). He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and the Washington & Lee School of Law, and he received his LL.M. in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center.

Edition details

• Publisher: SnagAJob.com
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615214738
• ISBN 13: 9780615214733
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 146
• Editor: Kyra Newman, Mike Ward