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    Strategic Hiring: The Dynamic Manager’s Handbook On How To Hire The Best Employees
    Strategic Hiring: The Dynamic Manager’s Handbook On How To Hire The Best Employees
    Strategic Hiring: The Dynamic Manager’s Handbook On How To Hire The Best Employees
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    Strategic Hiring: The Dynamic Manager’s Handbook On How To Hire The Best Employees

    By Dave Donelson

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    You can’t spend too much time or effort on good hiring. The alternative is managing the wrong person for the job, which is far more difficult. A good hire rewards you every day you work with them.

    “Five Steps to Hiring Good People – An Overview” takes you through creating a job description, screening applicants, interviewing candidates, testing their skills, and checking references before making a final decision.

    In five chapters, managers of companies in different industries describe how they go about finding and hiring the best. Positions covered include Wholesale Distributor Sales, Health Club Staff, Automotive Sales, Craft Gallery Staff, and Sporting Goods Retailers.

    “Make Interviews Meaningful” gives you some guidelines on structuring and conducting insightful interviews as well as a list of simple open-ended questions to get you started.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDave Donelson
    Release dateJun 23, 2011
    ISBN9781458100115
    Strategic Hiring: The Dynamic Manager’s Handbook On How To Hire The Best Employees
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    Dave Donelson

    Dave Donelson’s world-roving career as a management consultant and journalist has led to writing and photography assignments for dozens of national publications. The Dynamic Manager's Guide series is based on his work with hundreds of business owners and managers as well as his own experiences as a successful entrepreneur. He is also the author of Creative Selling: Boost Your B2B Sales and two novels, Heart Of Diamonds and Hunting Elf.

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      Strategic Hiring - Dave Donelson

      Strategic Hiring

      The Dynamic Manager’s Handbook On

      How To Hire The Best Employees

      by Dave Donelson

      Donelson SDA, Inc.

      Copyright 2011 Dave Donelson

      ISBN: 978-1458100115

      Smashwords Edition

      A note from the author

      The Dynamic Manager Handbooks are for entrepreneurs, managers, and others who want to succeed in small business by learning more about management techniques, operations, and best practices. Each volume in the collection is devoted to a single topic. The material was extracted from the Dynamic Manager Guides, my series of books based on my experiences as a business journalist, consultant, and entrepreneur.

      Chapter 1

      Five Steps to Hiring Good People – An Overview

      You can’t spend too much time or effort on good hiring. The alternative is managing the wrong person for the job, which is far more difficult.

      Hiring decisions are tough because there’s so much riding on them—and it’s so hard to correct mistakes. A manager can make big decisions about new equipment or product lines or even pricing and then adjust them if they’re off track. But when you hire someone who doesn’t fit the organization, it’s painful to correct your mistakes. So, like the carpenter who learns to measure twice and cut once, you want to make a sound decision in the first place. There are five basic steps to hiring the right person for the job.

      Define the job

      Screen applicants

      Interview candidates

      Test skills

      Check references

      Define the job

      The first step is an internal one. Basically, it boils down to deciding exactly what you want this person to do. What are their responsibilities? That will determine what kinds of skills and experience they need. Will they be interacting with customers? Then they’ll need communication skills. Are they going to be building steel structures? It might be useful if they can weld. It sounds obvious, but taking a few minutes to make a list of the things you want your new employee to do will make the whole process easier.

      It’s tempting to jump ahead and start making a list of qualifications, but unless you have a complete and accurate picture of the specific responsibilities of the job, how can you do that? Take your time and define the tasks to be done first. Then figure out what personal attributes, education or training, and skills the ideal candidate needs to perform those tasks.

      You may discover that some skills are essential while others would be simply a bonus. A computer technician

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