Knock 'em Dead Hiring the Best: Proven Tactics for Successful Employee Selection

by Martin Yate CPC

Overview

How to select exceptional employees!

You cannot manage productively without first hiring effectively, yet all too often this most important of all management skills is overlooked—as if on promotion into management, a manager becomes mysteriously endowed with all the critical skills of intelligent employee selection. The odds are that no one ever taught you how to hire effectively and manage productively—until now.

Martin Yate, CPC, New York Times bestselling author of the Knock 'em Dead career management books, brings his inimitable practical insights to bear on effective employee selection and productive management in this latest edition of Knock 'em Dead: Hiring the Best. With every page completely rewritten to meet the demands of the Internet age, Hiring the Best gives you intelligent strategies coupled with the practical tactics that can deliver successful hires every time. Among the new features of this entirely new edition are:

• How to organize and manage effective selection programs.
• How to execute time management sensitive interviews.
• Learn practical interview tricks that improve your overall communication skills.
• Access more than 500 new interview questions that lead to smart hires.
• How to make the right hiring decisions and get new hires off to a fast start.
• How to re-engineer selection tactics for productive day-to-day management.

With Knock 'em Dead: Hiring the Best, you will not only find the best candidates, you can ensure they succeed once they're on your payroll.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440562709
Publisher:	Adams Media
Publication date:	02/18/2014
Series:	Knock 'em Dead Career Book Series
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	1,068,869
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Martin Yate, CPC, is one of the foremost experts in the field of resumes, job search and career management. The author of Knock ’em Dead, Knock ’em Dead Resumes, Knock ’em Dead Cover Letters, Knock ’em Dead: Secrets & Strategies for First-Time Job Seekers, and many other career books. Martin has helped millions of people achieve professional success and he can help you too.

Table of Contents

Part I The Secrets of Effective Hiring 13

Chapter 1 Management-The Path to Success 14

Chapter 2 Defining the Job 18

Chapter 3 How to Crack a Resume 50

Chapter 4 Telephone Interviews: The Great Timesaver 67

Chapter 5 Backstage Passes: The Art and Science of Interviewing 83

Chapter 6 Multiple Interviews and Second Opinions 106

Part II Practical Strategies for Effective Selection 115

Chapter 7 The Seven Secrets Behind Successful Hires 116

Chapter 8 The First Interview: Ability 123

Chapter 9 The Second Interview: Motivation 139

Chapter 10 The Third Interview: Teamwork and Manageability 158

Part III Different Jobs, Different Questions 179

Chapter 11 The Entry-Level Hire 180

Chapter 12 The Administrative Hire 194

Chapter 13 The Sales Hire 202

Chapter 14 The Management Hire 220

Chapter 15 Executive Decisions 240

Part IV The Big Picture: Hiring Effectively and Managing Productively 251

Chapter 16 Hiring the Best 252

Chapter 17 How to Empower Success 259

Appendix: Interviewing Within the Law 283

Index 295

Editorial Reviews

"An excellent resource for job seekers who want to see things from the other side of the desk...a rare peek behind the curtain at how interviews are constructed." - Amy Lindgren, St. Paul Pioneer Press

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