Recruiting Excellence: An Insider's Guide to Sourcing Top Talent - Softcover

Grout, Jeff; Perrin, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0077111214 ISBN 13: 9780077111212

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Europe, Middle East & Africa, 2005

Synopsis

You want to fill your company with smart ideas, fill it with great people. In times of boom or bust, it is the people that provide competitive advantage. Recruiting excellence explains how the dynamics of the modern work place have changed, and how this has impacted on recruiting strategies.

Split into three sections, Part one takes a step back, looking at the strategic environment: the candidate's agenda, changing employment market, employer branding, alternative means of sourcing new recruits and alternatives to taking more staff on board.

Part two takes a practical look at recruitment – addressing the process, use of consultancies, headhunters, advertising, CV's and application forms. It also explains the psychometric texts, their use and effectiveness. It gives tips on interviewing and the final selection.

Part three – After the selection- examines making the offer, probationary period and how to retain the key recruits.

About this title

Review:

"This is the best guide to date on how to do it [recruit excellence] sucessfully" -- Professional Manager, September 2002

About the Author:

Jeff Grout is a respected adviser, 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 UKs leading companies. He is co-author of three books: The Adventure Capitalists, My Brilliant Career and Kickstart Your Career.

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

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0077111214
• ISBN 13: 9780077111212
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256