Recruiting Excellence

An insiders guide to sourcing top talent

Jeff Grout, Sarah Perrin

242 pages, parution le 11/04/2002

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Résumé

It reveals the strategies, tactics and practical procedures that will maximize the people-power driving your business success.

If you want to fill your company with smart ideas, then fill it with great people. In times of boom or bust, it is your people who provide competitive advantage.

Quality employees drive organizational performance and shareholder value, making recruitment a mission critical business activity. However, the changing dynamics of the modern work place are impacting on recruiting strategies. It is now essential to create a strong employer brand - a positive, distinctive public perception of the organization as an employer. Recruiting Excellence is an insiders guide to identifying, attracting, selecting, motivating and retaining top talent: The guide reveals the strategies, tactics and practical procedures that maximise the people-power driving your business to success. Recruiting Excellence looks at:

the strategic environment: from the changing employment market and employer branding to alternative means of recruiting.
the practical approach: from defining the vacancy need to reviewing CVs and application forms. It includes practical advice on effective interviewing, highlighting the questions that reveal candidates performance potential, as well as tips on the final selection.
after selection: from making the offer and negotiating the reward package to retaining key recruits. It also considers how to minimize the negative impact of poor performers and unavoidable redundancies.

Contents

Introduction: People are your powerhouse

Part I: The strategic environment

CHAPTER 1 The Business Agenda
CHAPTER 2: The Candidates Agenda
CHAPTER 3: Strategies for Successful Recruitment
CHAPTER 4: Alternative sourcing
CHAPTER 5: Alternatives to recruitment
CHAPTER 6: Common recruitment failings

Part II: Practical Recruiting

CHAPTER 7: The recruitment process
CHAPTER 8: Calling in the cavalry: Recruitment consultancies
CHAPTER 9: Effective advertising
CHAPTER 10: CVs and application forms
CHAPTER 11: Testing times
CHAPTER 12: Interviewing: technique tips
CHAPTER 13: Interviewing: effective questioning
CHAPTER 14: The final selection

Part III: After selection: Getting the best from recruits

CHAPTER 15: Making the offer
CHAPTER 16: Effective onboarding
CHAPTER 17: Re-recruitment
CHAPTER 18: Firing

L'auteur - Jeff Grout

Jeff Grout is a respected advisor, commentator, columnist and speaker on recruitment, retention and motivation. He is former UK Managing Director of Robert Half International, the largest specialist recruitment consultancy in the world, and has helped organizations recruit thousands of people during a professional recruitment career of twenty years.

Jeff has appeared on TV and radio, worked with the BBC in producing an interview training video, and has run interview technique courses for a number of the UK's leading companies.

He is currently in considerable demand as a motivational business speaker. He is co-author of four books: The Adventure Capitalists, My Brilliant Career, Kickstart Your Career and Mind Games.

L'auteur - Sarah Perrin

Sarah Perrin is a freelance journalist and writer, contributing regularly to business and professional magazines on a broad variety of topics. She is also the author of The Guardian Careers Guide to Accountancy and co-author, also with Jeff Grout, of Kickstart Your Career and Mind Games.

Sarah qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen in London before ultimately making a successful career shift into journalism.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Jeff Grout, Sarah Perrin
Parution	11/04/2002
Nb. de pages	242
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	582g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780077099688