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Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Providing the tools and systems for creating a hiring process designed for todays fast-paced; talent-deficient landscape; this book gives you everything you need to seize the high-ground in the war for talent and maintain it for long-term growth and profitability. --
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of the nation's biggest music labels briefly signed Taylor Swift to a contract but let her go because she didn't seem worth more than $15,000 a year. At least four book publishers passed on the first Harry Potter novel rather than pay J. K. Rowling a $5,000 advance. And the same pattern happens in nearly every business.
Anyone who recruits talent faces the same basic challenge, whether we work for a big company, a new start-up, a Hollywood
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xii, 289 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Leadership expert and executive coach Roxi Bahar Hewertson provides insights and advice for avoiding the all-too-common hiring bumps in the road. She defines and explores the ARC employee life cycle: Acquisition (hire right), Retention (nurture right), Closure (fire right). Acquiring and retaining talent and eventually bringing closure when employees leave, is a relational, not a transactional process"--
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This engaging and thought-provoking text introduces the main techniques, theories, research and debates in personnel selection, helping students and practitioners to identify the major predictors of job performance as well as the most suitable methods for assessing them." "Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Adrian Furnham provide a comprehensive, critical and up-to-date review of the constructs we use in assessing people - intelligence, personality, creativity,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
6th edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
You cannot manage productive without first hiring effectively, yet the odds are no one has ever taught you this most important of all management skills. Yates gives you intelligent strategies and practical tactics that can deliver successful hires every time.
Author
Series
Publisher
FT Press
Pub. Date
[2007], c 2009
Physical Desc
1 online resource (ii, 27 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"Talent matters. No one denies this fact. But, there is often a gap between wanting and getting talent. Cathy Fyock's 53 'Truths' provide concrete, practical, and well-tested ideas to close the talent gap. The ideas are reasonable, grounded in research, and actionable. This is an excellent book for those who pay attention to hiring. The 53 Truths offer a roadmap for doing this important task more effectively." Dave Ulrich, Professor of Business, University...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 256 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"Hiring continues to be one of the worst aspects of most organizations. Chaos and frustration are the rule, not the exception. An unstructured and unmeasured process lets bias and subjectivity seep in, and companies end up with a mediocre, homogenous workforce. This book provides a complete, end-to-end framework to solving that problem in 30 days. It provides the theory, the tactical playbook, the real-world examples, and the underlying science to...
Author
Publisher
FTPress Delivers
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource ([7] pages)
Language
English
Description
Skills, facts, strategies, techniques...whatever it takes! FT Press's quick new Top 10s bring together the 10 most crucial things you MUST know to get great results, right now! Supercharge your workforce with these 10 practical, powerful techniques for hiring better people! Many hiring managers believe they know how to recruit and select employees because they've been doing it for so long. But, the hiring practices you might have been using for years...
Author
Publisher
Kogan Page
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
4th edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 215 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to psychometric tests and test taking. Covers ability tests, personality questionnaires, internet testing, graduate and university admission tests, and leadership-style questionnaires.
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
©2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"Tools for translating recruiting and hiring decisions into financial returns Even in a down economy, U.S. business and government make millions of hiring decisions every year. Every decision carries risk. Every hire is an investment. Ideally, every one pays a return. In today's demanding environment, companies no longer have room to get it wrong. Million-Dollar Hire shows how leading companies have re-invented themselves, beat their competition,...
19) Ready, aim, hire!: how to master the hiring process : an anthology by 12 of the nation's top experts
Publisher
PerSysCo Pub
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 200 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"A renowned executive recruitment expert provides you with a playbook to implement systematic, repeatable, best-in-class hiring practices to give your business maximum competitive advantage. Data and analytics are reshaping countless industries as they turn from anecdotal to evidence-based practices. Yet while most aspects of business operations today rely on clearly defined measures of success that are continuously tracked and improved, in most organizations,...
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