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This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Hiring the Best (9780132381864), by Cathy Fyock. Available in print and digital formats.

 

A simple plan for recruiting top talent–-in any industry, at any level.

 

If the best candidates aren’t working for your organization, they are probably working for your competitor. To compete successfully for the best and brightest, first identify who your competitors are for your first-choice employees. They aren’t just your competitors for market share. They could be anyone–-especially when you are looking for entry-level, hourly, and clerical workers.

This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Hiring the Best (9780132381864) by Cathy Fyock. Available in print and digital formats.

 

How to ferret out and avoid “scam-didates”: job candidates who flat-out lie about their credentials and experience.

 

The candidate you’re interviewing appears to have everything--the right background, perfect experience, and all the credentials you’re looking for. But it’s too good to be true. And this is about more than just spin: It’s outright lying. Statistics reveal that nearly 36% of applications are falsified!

Skills, facts, strategies, techniques…whatever it takes! FT Press’s quick new Top 10s bring together the 10 most crucial things you MUST know to get great results, right now!

 

Supercharge your workforce with these 10 practical, powerful techniques for hiring better people!

 

Many hiring managers believe they know how to recruit and select employees because they’ve been doing it for so long. But, the hiring practices you might have been using for years might not be serving you well today. Here are 10 things you must know now to hire the best. First: There’s no such thing as the ideal candidate…

“Talent matters. No one denies this fact. But, there is often a gap between wanting and getting talent. Cathy Fyock’s 53 ‘Truths’ provide concrete, practical, and well-tested ideas to close the talent gap. The ideas are reasonable, grounded in research, and actionable. This is an excellent book for those who pay attention to hiring. The 53 Truths offer a roadmap for doing this important task more effectively.”

Dave Ulrich, Professor of Business, University of Michigan, Partner, The RBL Group

 

“You think you knew everything you needed to know about employment until you read the most recent, catchy FT Press ‘Truth’ book by staffing expert Cathy Fyock. In only 224 pages Fyock effectively uses 53 ‘Truths’ to challenge many of HR’s long-standing assumptions and practices related to recruitment and selection. With everyone wanting to ‘hire the best,’ this quick read has a high ROI.”

Michael R. Losey, SPHR, CAE, Former CEO, Society for Human Resource Management

 

“Cathy Fyock knows there is no ‘silver bullet’ when it comes to successful recruiting and hiring–and that passive tactics do not provide high quality results. She knows the truth: Today’s low unemployment rates combined with increasing retirements of Baby Boomers spell trouble for employers hoping to expand. Her fresh approach shows the reader that there are numerous opportunities to connect with great future employees, and she provides practical advice for tapping multiple sources simultaneously, as well as interviewing and making offers. If you want to hire the best, this book is your guide!”

Nancy S. Ahlrichs, SPHR, President, EOC Strategies, LLC

 

Great business results start with great talent. Get it–and keep it!

 

This book reveals 53 Proven Hiring Principles and bite-size, easy-to-use techniques that work.

 

• The truth about finding hidden sources of talent

• The truth about making great people want to work for you

• The truth about interviewing: asking the right questions

 

Getting the best people for your organization is not only difficult, but the strategies for getting the best often are not obvious. To get the best you first need to identify who the best are, then determine how to reach the best, and then decide on the best among the best you want to hire. In The Truth About Hiring the Best you will learn: it's not just a job to fill; it's your organization's future that you're creating; getting the best isn't just about asking the right questions, it's about listening for the right answers; and great people don't want to work for desperate employers. It's a war for talent, and you need to win.

 

 

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“Talent matters. No one denies this fact. But, there is often a gap between wanting and getting talent. Cathy Fyock’s 53 ‘Truths’ provide concrete, practical, and well-tested ideas to close the talent gap. The ideas are reasonable, grounded in research, and actionable. This is an excellent book for those who pay attention to hiring. The 53 Truths offer a roadmap for doing this important task more effectively.”

Dave Ulrich, Professor of Business, University of Michigan, Partner, The RBL Group

 

“You think you knew everything you needed to know about employment until you read the most recent, catchy FT Press ‘Truth’ book by staffing expert Cathy Fyock. In only 224 pages Fyock effectively uses 53 ‘Truths’ to challenge many of HR’s long-standing assumptions and practices related to recruitment and selection. With everyone wanting to ‘hire the best,’ this quick read has a high ROI.”

Michael R. Losey, SPHR, CAE, Former CEO, Society for Human Resource Management

 

“Cathy Fyock knows there is no ‘silver bullet’ when it comes to successful recruiting and hiring–and that passive tactics do not provide high quality results. She knows the truth: Today’s low unemployment rates combined with increasing retirements of Baby Boomers spell trouble for employers hoping to expand. Her fresh approach shows the reader that there are numerous opportunities to connect with great future employees, and she provides practical advice for tapping multiple sources simultaneously, as well as interviewing and making offers. If you want to hire the best, this book is your guide!”

Nancy S. Ahlrichs, SPHR, President, EOC Strategies, LLC

 

Great business results start with great talent. Get it–and keep it!

 

This book reveals 53 Proven Hiring Principles and bite-size, easy-to-use techniques that work.

 

• The truth about finding hidden sources of talent

• The truth about making great people want to work for you

• The truth about interviewing: asking the right questions

 

Getting the best people for your organization is not only difficult, but the strategies for getting the best often are not obvious. To get the best you first need to identify who the best are, then determine how to reach the best, and then decide on the best among the best you want to hire. In The Truth About Hiring the Best you will learn: it's not just a job to fill; it's your organization's future that you're creating; getting the best isn't just about asking the right questions, it's about listening for the right answers; and great people don't want to work for desperate employers. It's a war for talent, and you need to win.

 

 

Your life''s work is too important to simply begrudge and endure. A business parable for the ages, Hallelujah! will help you to "hear the music" at work and to believe in the dignity of life''s labors. When Susan is unexpectedly promoted to store manager, productivity falls, tension rises, and the best employees begin to leave. Soon, Susan becomes bitter and cynical about the job she used to love. But when Susan takes a friend''s suggestion and joins a local choir, she learns more about compassion, humility, and everyday grace-and she begins to transform her job into a place of purposeful work.Hallelujah! An Anthem for Purposeful Work takes business parables in a different and beautiful direction. The main narrative is driven by believable characters, simple presentation, and situations that anyone could realistically encounter. The narrative is wrapped up by a series of Testaments, or statements of principle aimed at helping readers to bring purpose into their own work and lives.