HBR Guide to Better Recruiting and Hiring / Harvard Business Review.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harvard Business Review, author.

Series:

Harvard business review guides.

HBR Guide Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employees--Recruiting.

Employees.

Employee selection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Harvard Business Review Press, [2025]

Summary:

"As the pace of technological change increases, the demand for new skills is accelerating. And as technologies like AI take on new tasks and jobs, smart organizations aren't simply waiting for their new workforce to appear. These companies are investing in reskilling their workers. They're adopting a skills-based approach to hiring and developing talent. And they're leveraging new digital learning technologies to upskill their employees dynamically and efficiently. What new approaches should your organization be taking to build the workforce you need-now and tomorrow? Reskilling and Upskilling: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today's most essential thinking on rebuilding and retraining your workforce, explains how to get the right skilling initiatives started at your company, and prepares your company to compete in the new skills economy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Managers are the keys to the future of work

and the hiring process : help your company find and win talent / by Emily Field and Bryan Hancock

Understand the process. How to hire top talent : the essential practices to spot and sign stars / by Ryan Renteria ; Future-focused recruiting strategies : attract the people you need to face what's next / an interview with Lauren Smith by Curt Nickisch ; Forty ideas to shake up your hiring process : from micro-internships to alumni hiring to "hidden" talent pools / by Joseph Fuller, Nithya Vaduganathan, Allison Bailey and Manjari Raman ; Imagine a better hiring process : unconventional approaches to adopt or adapt / by Alex Haimann ; Six critical ways HR assists with recruiting and hiring : build a partnership that gets results / by Roxanne Calder ; Reduce personal bias in the hiring process : your good intentions aren't enough / by Ruchika T. Malhotra

Attract and build a wide pool of candidates. Don't post the job listing before taking these five steps : assess what your team really needs first / by Marlo Lyons ; Write a job description that attracts the right candidate : resist the temptation to copy and paste / by Whitney Johnson

Conduct effective interviews. How to conduct an effective interview : you need to prepare as much as your candidate does / by Rebecca Knight ; Evaluate a candidate's critical thinking skills : focus on their questions, not their answers / by Christopher Frank, Paul Magnone, and Oded Netzer ; What to do when you don't click with a candidate : why you should try to revive that lifeless conversation / by Rae Ringel ; Make interviews more accessible : give every candidate a chance to demonstrate their strengths / by Rebecca Knight ; How to answer an open-ended question from a candidate : anticipate and address their concerns / by Marlo Lyons ; Should you use AI to assess candidates? New best practice, or just plain creepy? / by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Reece Akhtar

Ask better questions. Seven rules for interview questions that result in great hires : make the most of your time together / by John Sullivan ; Stop asking candidates the wrong questions : better approaches to unearth passions and problem-solving skills / by Nilofer Merchant ; Five qualities to look for in a new hire : traits that benefit nearly every team and work culture / by Shanna Hocking ; Evaluate responses to common interview questions : focus on potential, not past performance / by Xena Wang

Assess candidates and make a decision. When to take a chance on a candidate : there's no such thing as a perfect match / by Rebecca Knight ; Seven strategies for better group decision-making : lessons from behavioral science / by Torben Emmerling and Duncan Rooders ; A scorecard for making better hiring decisions : measure your success rate over time / by Ben Dattner ; Why you should invest in unconventional talent : hire for future growth

not pedigree / by Debbie Ferguson and Frederick "Flee" Lee ; Don't hire a former employee before asking these questions : are they a good fit or are they familiar? / by Marlo Lyons

Make an offer or reject candidates. Negotiate an offer that works : salary negotiations can be win-wins / by Michael Schaerer, Martin Schweinsberg, and Roderick Swaab ; How to write a good rejection letter : don't let kindness breed false hope / by Sarah Green Carmichael ; Why you should interview people after they turn down a job with your company : find out why they passed / by Ben Dattner

When you can't find a match. Sometimes hiring nobody is better than hiring just anybody : when to rush and when to wait / by Margaret M. Luciano and Maximilian K. Watson.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Review, Harvard Business HBR Guide to Better Recruiting and Hiring

ISBN:

9798892790017

OCLC:

1482267977