Talent Makers How the Best Organizations Win through Structured and Inclusive Hiring

by Chait, Daniel; Stross, Jon

• ISBN13: 9781119785279
• ISBN10: 1119785278
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-04-20
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Powerful ideas to transform hiring into a massive competitive advantage for your business  

Talent Makers: How the Best Organizations Win through Structured and Inclusive Hiring is essential reading for every leader who knows that hiring is crucial to their organization and wants to compete for top talent, diversify their organization, and build winning teams. Daniel Chait and Jon Stross, co-founders of Greenhouse Software, Inc, provide readers with a comprehensive and proven framework to improve hiring quickly, substantially, and measurably.  

Talent Makers will provide a step-by-step plan and actionable advice to help leaders assess their talent practice (or lack thereof) and transform hiring into a measurable competitive advantage. Readers will understand and employ:

• A proven system and principles for hiring used by the world's best companies
• Hiring practices that remove bias and result in more diverse teams
• An assessment of their hiring practice using the Hiring Maturity model
• Measurement of employee lifetime value in quantifiable terms, and how to increase that value through hiring

The Talent Makers methodology is the result of the authors’ experience and the ideas and stories from their community of more than 4,000 organizations. This is the book that CEOs, hiring managers, talent practitioners, and human resources leaders must read to transform their hiring and propel their organization to new heights.

Author Biography

Daniel Chait is CEO and Co-founder of Greenhouse. As a technology entrepreneur in New York for over 22 years, Dan is a frequent speaker on the topics of hiring and entrepreneurship.

Jon Stross is President and Co-founder of Greenhouse. He drives product strategy and works closely with customers and partners to build a platform that improves hiring performance.

Table of Contents

1. The Problem and The Promise

2. The Hiring Maturity Curve

Takeaways

3. Employee Lifetime Value

Takeaways

4. Structured Hiring

Takeaways

5. Own Every Moment of Your Hiring Experience

Takeaways

Expert Insights: Jill Macri, Airbnb and Growth by Design

Expert Insights: Andres Translavina, Whole Foods Market

6. Attract the Best Talent

Takeaways

Expert Insights: Porter Braswell, Jopwell.com

7. Making Confident, Informed Decisions

Takeaways

Expert Insights: Joelle Emerson, Paradigm

Expert Insight: Jan Fiegel, Sidewalk Labs

8. Driving Operational Excellence

Takeaways

Expert Insights: Gerry Alvarez, Alphabet

9. Talent Makers

Takeaways

Expert Insights: Tope Awatona, Calendly

Expert Insights: Maia Josebachvili, Stripe

Expert Insights: Pattie Money, Twilio, Sendgrid, UC-Denver Business School

10. Changing Minds

Takeaways

Expert Insights: Shauna Geraghty, Talkdesk

Expert Insights: Beth Steinberg

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Index