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- Did you know that a single hiring decision can have a greater impact on your company's future than almost any other strategic move?
- Have you ever wondered why traditional interviews often fail to predict a candidate's actual success on the job?
- What’s the secret to moving beyond gut instinct to a proven, step-by-step system for finding the perfect hire every time?
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Key Takeaways from Great People Decisions
- Understand why making great people decisions is a learnable science rather than an innate skill based on gut intuition.
- Master the ability to maximize your career potential by acknowledging that you cannot succeed alone and must consciously build a complementary team.
- Discover why filling 90 percent of your organization's roles with the right people should be your absolute highest priority for business success.
- Learn to navigate the complex challenges of hiring by effectively assessing elusive soft skills and anticipating how a role might evolve over time.
- Recognize how psychological biases like procrastination and herding can trick you into retaining failing employees or making irrational hiring choices.
Great People Decisions — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Excellent people choices are crucial for maximizing your career potential.
Chapter 3: Companies can thrive only when they have the right people in the right roles.
Chapter 4: Difficulty gauging what a role requires, plus too few suitable candidates, make great people decisions especially challenging today.
Chapter 5: Politics, anxious candidates, and cognitive biases hinder us from making great people decisions.
Chapter 6: Making great people decisions demands that you recognize when to make them.
Chapter 7: In order to make great people decisions, you must first know what you are truly seeking.
Chapter 8: Use sourcing and benchmarking to identify the best candidates.
Chapter 9: Harness the power of structured interviews to assess and select the right candidate.
Chapter 10: Finally, you have to attract the candidates you’ve chosen and help them through a supported integration process.
Great People Decisions Summary & Overview
Great People Decisions (2007) explains the many ways in which personnel choices can make or break an organization. Full of practical, immediately actionable advice, this step-by-step guide to finding and hiring the right candidate for the right job is helpful for businesses of all shapes and sizes.
Who Should Listen to Great People Decisions?
- Anyone who has ever hired the wrong person for a job
- Anyone who is in charge of building solid and efficient teams
- Entrepreneurs, managers and CEOs
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