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- What if you could transform your hiring process from a stressful race against time into your company’s most powerful competitive advantage?
- Have you ever wondered why even the most qualified candidates often fail to thrive, and how you can spot the 'perfect fit' before the first interview?
- What’s the secret to treating every job seeker like a valued customer to ensure you never lose out on top-tier talent again?
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Key Takeaways from Hiring Success
- Understand why top talent is the scarcest resource in today's knowledge economy, and discover why strategic recruitment is more crucial to success than simply securing funding.
- Discover why measuring hiring success by speed and low cost actually incentivizes cutting corners, and learn how to implement the Net Hiring Score (NHS) to evaluate true candidate quality.
- Learn how to think like a marketer to successfully 'sell' your job openings by treating your available roles as products and your potential applicants as valued customers.
- Master candidate segmentation by analyzing a role's overall business impact alongside the scarcity of its required skills to determine the most effective advertising strategy.
- Find out how to maximize your applicant pool by crafting clear, concise job requirements and designing a completely friction-free application process.
Learning Tools
Reinforce what you learned from Hiring Success
Mind Map
Hiring Success
The Modern Hiring Landscape
Talent Scarcity
High Stakes
Smart Hiring Metrics
Flawed Traditional Metrics
Net Hiring Score (NHS)
Patience for Quality
Marketing the Job
Job as Product
Segmentation
Frictionless Experience
Creative Sourcing & Pipelining
Generate Buzz
Pipelining
Smart Referrals
Evaluating Candidates
Attitude Over Aptitude
Structured Interviews
Standardized Tests
Closing the Deal
Memorable Offers
Embracing Negotiation
Smooth Onboarding
Building the Hiring Team
Investment Returns
Multidisciplinary Staffing
Manager Coordination
Embracing Diversity
Performance Boost
Inclusive Language
Flexible Auditions
Actionable Advice
Say No to Maybe
Quiz — Test Your Understanding
Question 1 of 10
Why is hiring the right talent considered more difficult today than in the industrial era?
Hiring Success — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Recruiting the right talent is even more essential—and much harder—today than ever.
Chapter 3: A successful hiring process requires intelligent recruiting metrics.
Chapter 4: In order to market a job well, you have to think like marketers.
Chapter 5: A creative hiring approach can channel talent directly in your direction.
Chapter 6: Evaluate candidates on what they will do, not on what they already have done.
Chapter 7: To close the deal, make a job offer no one can refuse.
Chapter 8: An effective hiring system begins with a strong team.
Chapter 9: Savvy hiring practices embrace diversity.
Hiring Success Summary & Overview
Hiring Success (2020) is all about helping you find and retain the best people for your business. This no-nonsense guide explains the techniques necessary to contact, connect with, and onboard the right talent to meet your present and future goals.
Who Should Listen to Hiring Success?
- CEOs aiming to build talented teams
- HR pros looking to become HR superstars
- Jobseekers wanting to understand the hiring process
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