The Essential Guide to Recruitment: How to Conduct Great Interviews and Select the Best Employees

The Essential Guide to Recruitment: How to Conduct Great Interviews and Select the Best Employees

by Margaret Dale (Author)

Synopsis

Few line managers are given formal training at recruitment processes and poor interviewing skills can cost a company both cash and customers. This book enables managers and HR professionals to master essential recruitment skills and develop an effective interviewing technique. Since it is the interviewer's responsibility to find the right candidate for the job, it is crucial that the interview is well designed. To be fit for the purpose the interview must be sufficiently demanding but, at the same time, respectful of the candidate. This book not only provides interviewers with tried and tested readymade interview questions, but also enables them to conduct fair and searching interviews.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: 1
Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 03 Aug 2006

ISBN 10: 0749444746
ISBN 13: 9780749444747
Book Overview: Practical step-by-step guide for busy managers Covers recruitment, selection and induction Allows interviewers to pinpoint exactly what they are looking for in their candidates Presents a range of interview questions and how to ask them Demonstrates how to assess your candidates performance and decide who best fits your criteria

Media Reviews
Poor hiring decisions and processes can prove very costly or damaging, especially to smaller organisations. In The Essential Guide to Recruitment, the author has distilled best professional practice into practical down-to-earth advice to help busy managers avoid the pitfalls and to recruit the best. Jan Scrine BSc(Econ), MSc, FCIPD, MCIArb, The Minerva Group A manager's success is dependent on the quality and performance of those he manages and recruitment techniques are key to obtaining the best help: that's why the step-by-step directions of (this book) are so important. California Bookwatch Dale...offers advice to managers who haven't been extensively trained on strategies for seeking, hiring and keeping the best employees for their team. Reference and Research Book News Recruitment and selection can be a minefield for the inexperienced and the unwary. This book will lead you safely through the process from defining the job through advertising, shortlisting and the early days of employment. Margaret's book would be a great help to the newly appointed manager or somebody in a small firm seeking to recruit without the assistance of an in-house Human Resources department. Paul Marshall, HR Department, University of Hull This book is a practical and step-by-step guide to the recruitment process ... the author has distilled best professional practice into practical down-to-earth advice. Managing Risk This book has been written to support one of the most critical of HR functions - recruitment. Guides the recruiter through the complete cycle. When it comes to looking at questioning techniques, it does come into its own and gives the reader plenty of oppurtunities to practice these, as well as other methodologies, at the end of each chapter. A useful guide for any HR professional aiming to attract talent to, and encourage talent within their organization. Personnel Today
Author Bio
Margaret Dale works for a consortium of universities who are using a specially designed competency based approach for analysing roles to support a range of HR functions. She is also a Non-Executive Director of a Primary Care Trust, an employment expert in personal injury and clinical negligence claims, and a mediator. She is author of A Manager's Guide to Recruitment and Selection and Developing Management Skills.