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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785578303321

Autore

Jones David P

Titolo

Million-dollar hire [[electronic resource] ] : build your bottom line, one employee at a time / / David P. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Jossey-Bass, 2011

ISBN

1-118-01752-8

1-283-02661-9

9786613026613

1-118-01750-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Classificazione

BUS000000

Disciplina

658.3/11

Soggetti

Employee selection - United States

Employees - Recruiting - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

MILLION DOLLAR HIRE: BUILD YOUR BOTTOM LINE, ONE EMPLOYEE AT A TIME; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE: THREE THINGS WE KNOW ABOUT PEOPLE; CHAPTER TWO: FOUR THINGS WE KNOW ABOUT PROCESS; CHAPTER THREE: SOME BASIC THINKING MODELS; CHAPTER FOUR: MEASURING PAYOFF IN HARD NUMBERS; CHAPTER FIVE: MEASURING PAYOFF IN SOFT NUMBERS; CHAPTER SIX: TECHNOLOGIES COME TO RECRUITING AND HIRING; CHAPTER SEVEN: SETTING STRATEGY AND CHOOSING TACTICS; CHAPTER EIGHT: CANDIDATE SOURCING AND PRESCREENING; CHAPTER NINE: ASSESSING THE WHOLE CANDIDATE; CHAPTER TEN: MAKING THE MILLION-DOLLAR DECISION

CHAPTER ELEVEN: NAVIGATING THE LEGAL PITFALLSCHAPTER TWELVE: HOLDING AND GROWING THE INVESTMENT; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: IT'S YOUR MONEY; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Tools for translating recruiting and hiring decisions into financial returns Even in a down economy, U.S. business and government make millions of hiring decisions every year. Every decision carries risk. Every hire is an investment. Ideally, every one pays a return. In today's demanding environment, companies no longer have room to get it



wrong. Million-Dollar Hire shows how leading companies have re-invented themselves, beat their competition, and added millions to their bottom lines with re-engineered recruiting and hiring practices. Using practical, real world illustrations, it sh