Precision Recruitment Skills with Impact - Softcover

Rod Matthews

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0975706616 ISBN 13: 9780975706619

Publisher: Impact Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Are you hiring employees? Have you ever hired a new employee, only to find out months later that you have a square peg in a round hole ? Have you ever hired someone who is absolutely brilliant ... then been devastated to lose them just a few months later? Or perhaps you ve seen superb candidates at the job interview that, once on the job, could put Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde to shame! Recruiting employees costs time and money ... and that s without adding up all the indirect costs ... time spent in performance management or reworking a poor performer s output, time spent training and re-training, time spent reforming teams when a new person joins ... yet for many organisations they ll unknowingly pour $1,000 s of dollars away, week after week, month after month purely due to low quality recruitment practices. Few know the behind the scenes hiring processes that world-class professional recruiters use like Impact s Rod Matthews ... because Rod has been one of the people involved in training the recruiters themselves. Rod has investigated and separated theoretical best practice hiring processes from those that really work ... and along the way has uncovered fundamental methods to prevent poor recruitment practices crippling any business profits. Now anyone can profit from these simple yet little known steps to finding the right person for the right job . Want to save $1,000s in recruitment fees? Wondering exactly how to find the right person for the right job? Need to dramatically reduce staff turnover? Precision Recruitment Skills; In Precision Recruitment Skills Rod reveals the hidden strategies used by all top recruiters: Learn how to: Calculate the cost of getting recruitment wrong Hire the right person in the right job, first time Use the Interviewer s self assessment Incorporate some important recruitment lessons Avoid paying for unnecessary recruitment errors Use alternatives to recruitment What best practice hiring processes are ... and what they are not Use precision hiring processes Avoid The Clone Syndrome Use the Michael Parkinson Interview to win an edge over your competition Use Key Selection Criteria Build an advertisement to attract the best people Review more resumes in less time Prepare for an interview: Using key selection criteria and how to choose appropriate job interview questions Create the right environment Plan your critical opening comments Outline the job without giving away the answers Use advanced questioning Find a STAR performer Use advanced listening skills: Are you really listening or just waiting to talk? Balance behaviours: Every behaviour has an equal and opposite Close the interview: The next steps What to do after the interview: Making the decision as easy as possible ... The Decision Analysis Process Conduct effective reference checks Use other forms of assessment Handle rejection Speed up the return on your investment: Induction and Orientation Plus an amazingly practical Appendix -packed with Job aids and reference documents: Job descriptions Sample receipt of application letter or email A library of job interview questions A structured interview guide An interview checklist Sample letter or email to an unsuccessful candidate Sample reference check questionnaire.

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About the Author:

Rod Matthews Guest Speaker, Author, Enter-trainer. As the founding director of Impact, Human Performance Technologies, Rod has over 15 years experience in helping people do what they enjoy and enjoy what they do. Rod has also authored several books, articles pod and screencasts all of which are available on Impacts web site. Rod s infectious enthusiasm, proficient ability to understand what is going on and seemingly limitless access to tips, tools and techniques that work, make his books thought provoking, practical, interactive, and fun.

About this edition

• Publisher: Impact Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0975706616
• ISBN 13: 9780975706619
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 152
• Illustrator: Kristen Hardiman