Successful recruitment : how to recruit the right people for your business / Stephen Amos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amos, Stephen, author.

Series:

Human resource management and organizational behavior collection.

Human resource management and organizational behavior collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employees--Recruiting.

Employees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 171 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Business Expert Press, [2020]

Summary:

Successful Recruitment provides the practical guidance and knowledge needed to recruit the right people, avoiding the many pitfalls that can arise in the recruitment process. It begins by identifying why recruitment is so often unsuccessful, leading to time, money, and energy being wasted in recruiting people who lack the attributes required to succeed in your organization. It then sets out how to put in place an effective recruitment process, by: Planning the process; Laying firm foundations, ensuring that job descriptions, person specifications, and application forms are fit for purpose; Ensuring that advertising is targeted to reach the right applicants; Sifting and shortlisting to ensure that the right candidates are selected for interview; Developing the knowledge, skills and processes to ensure that interviews enable you to accurately assess the candidate's ability to do the job; Effectively utilizing other assessment methods alongside the interview; Concluding the process properly and ensuring that the right candidate is appointed; Effectively inducting the successful candidate into your organization. The author pays particular attention to the recruitment interview, explaining three different approaches to interviewing and the key skills required to conduct an effective interview, as well as considers some of the specific issues involved in recruiting internationally. The book concludes by considering the future trends and innovations which will affect how recruiting is handled over the next decade.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Planning Recruitment

Chapter 2: Laying the Foundations

Chapter 3: Advertising the Vacancy

Chapter 4: Sifting and Shortlisting

Chapter 5: Preparing for the Interview

Chapter 6: Conducting the Interview: The Process

Chapter 7: Conducting the Interview: Five Key Skills

Chapter 8: After the Interview

Chapter 9: Other Assessment Methods

Chapter 10: Concluding the Recruitment Process

Chapter 11: Successful Induction

Chapter 12: International Recruitment

Conclusion

Appendices

Bibliography

About the Author

Index

Adpage.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (page 163) and index.

ISBN:

9781948580649

1948580640