TKO Hiring! Ten Knockout Strategies for Recruiting, Interviewing, and Hiring Great People

by Anderson, Dave

• ISBN13: 9780470171769
• ISBN10: 0470171766
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-19
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

With today's pace of business coupled with the fact that you're spread thin as an employee, spouse, parent and friend, you need high-impact information and you need it fast. In this book you will learn how to improve your skills and elevate your organization; without any hype, void of academics and complexity. TKO Hiring! is the answer. This book has ten short chapters filled with meaty strategies you can apply right away. TKO Hiring! provides a set of quick, easy-to-implement steps that will help readers quickly develop the particular skill set the book addresses. To reinforce the simple concept and break up the text to make it more readable and useable, each chapter will have the following sprinkled throughout it: Fast, Powerful Words of Wisdom (quotes or memorable sound bites). Fast, Powerful Stories (real life analogies that relate to the text topic). Fast, Powerful Strategies (a series of all-meat, no fluff bullet point-type strategies). Fast, Powerful Questions A series of questions to prompt the reader to action. Fast, Powerful Cliff Notes-type summary of bullet points from each chapter for easy reference and reinforcement Designed to be read in a couple of hours or sittings, detailed techniques and specific strategies are presented in user-friendly bulleted lists, checklists, and sidebars. Complex concepts are simplified through use of definitions, everyday examples and summary points. It also incorporates insightful narratives from the authors with practical, straightforward how-to advice. An additional resources section with helpful information about other books, organizations, and websites that readers can refer to for more in-depth coverage of particular topic is included as well.

Author Biography

Dave Anderson has led some of the nation's most successful car dealerships and is President of Dave Anderson's Learn to Lead and LearnToLead.com, a Web site that provides free training resources to thousands of people in more than forty countries. He is also the author of If You Don't Make Waves, You'll Drown; Up Your Business!; and How to Deal with DifficultCustomers, all from Wiley.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
About the Author	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Understand the Cost of Hiring Recklessly	p. 1
Become a Proactive Recruiter	p. 11
Create a Potent Interview Structure	p. 27
Ask Tough Interview Questions	p. 41
Effectively Check References	p. 53
How to Use Predictive Testing Hiring Profiles	p. 61
How to Get New Hires Off to a Great Start	p. 71
How to Retain Eagles Once You Find Them	p. 83
Differentiate Your Employees for Development and Retention	p. 97
Knockout Summary for Follow-Through	p. 109
Bibliography	p. 119
Index	p. 121
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