The Hiring Handbook (a Toolkit For Recruitment, Assessment, And Selection Success)

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By (author) Guentert, Kasey Harboe; By (author) Berke, Mollie

Short /annotation:
Use this practical guide to source, interview and recruit the employees that your business needs to succeed.

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How can I improve the quality of my hires? What”s the best way to structure interviews and how can I ensure that the questions I ask provide the information I need? How can I make sure that hiring decisions are based on data and not judgements?
The Hiring Handbook is a must-have guide for HR professionals, managers and small business owners looking to hire with confidence. This practical toolkit walks you through every stage of the hiring process-from defining job requirements to designing structured interviews-so you can consistently identify and select the best candidates.It covers how to conduct job analyses to pinpoint the skills and attributes that truly matter, write compelling job s that attract top talent, and design structured interviews that lead to fair and accurate hiring decisions. The book also explains how to craft strong, predictive interview questions, evaluate candidates objectively, and minimize bias by adopting a data-driven approach to hiring. Written by hiring experts with deep assessment and selection expertise from global firms like Korn Ferry, Airbnb, and Meta,
The Hiring Handbook equips you with the tools to build high-performing teams and make hiring decisions that drive long-term success.

Table of contents:

• Section – ONE: WHY structured assessment;
• • Chapter – 01: Embrace human insight;
  • Chapter – 02: From frenzy to fallout – the high cost of over-hiring and its aftermath;
  • Chapter – 03: The funnel;
  • Chapter – 04: Your stakeholders;
• Section – TWO: WHAT to assess;
• • Chapter – 05: Overview of job analysis – about those miraculous;
  • Chapter – 06: Job analysis;
  • Chapter – 07: Job analysis, step by step;
  • Chapter – 08: Building your job profile and job ;
  • Chapter – 09: Food for thought;
• Section – THREE: HOW to assess;
• • Chapter – 10: Out-of-the-box questions – why the beer test and guessing games don’t belong in interviews;
  • Chapter – 11: Screen to focus on the most qualified;
  • Chapter – 12: Structure focuses on what matters most;
  • Chapter – 13: Building structured interviews;
  • Chapter – 14: Other interviewing methods and assessment types;
  • Chapter – 15: Let’s write some questions!;
  • Chapter – 16: Creating candidate trust;
  • Chapter – 17: Conducting your interview;
  • Chapter – 18: Including multiple interviewers;
• Section – FOUR: WHO to select;
• • Chapter – 19: Taking outstanding notes;
  • Chapter – 20: It’s all about metrics;
  • Chapter – 21: Using evidence to make ratings;
  • Chapter – 22: Making a decision;
• Section – FIVE: Other considerations;
• • Chapter – 23: Can human bias be helped?;
  • Chapter – 24: Privacy and employment best practices – United States;
  • Chapter – 25: Privacy and employment best practices – Europe and the UK;
  • Chapter – 26: Privacy and employment best practices – India and China;
  • Chapter – 27: Cheating, leakage, and lying;
  • Chapter – 28: Continuous improvement;
  • Chapter – 29: GenAI – general tips;
  • Chapter – 30: When the standard hiring process doesn’t fit;
  • Chapter – 31: Concluding thoughts;

Review quote:
“Over the course of my career helping large companies identify and develop talent, from the frontlines all the way up to senior executives-I”ve seen firsthand how often organizations, even the most sophisticated ones, get hiring wrong. Despite the stakes, too many organizations still rely on gut instinct over