A 101 Strategies for Recruiting Success: Where, When, and How to Find the Right People Every Time

By Christopher W. Pritchard

Book Overview

This book gives you quick, powerful strategies for revitalizing your techniques, and provides sage advice in bite-sized chunks, designed for immediate implementation.

A critical factor in your organization's success is your ability to hire?and keep?good people. In order to tackle the toughest recruiting assignments and keep your company running smoothly with great hires who are there for the long haul, you need to infuse both common sense and corporate street smarts into your approach.

101 Strategies for Recruiting Success offers practical tips of the trade from a recruiting professional with more than two decades of experience. You'll learn:

Proven ways to reel in great talent, including how to make your general recruiting operations proactive rather than reactive25 ways to find the people your company needsSmart and efficient methods for conducting interviews and evaluating candidatesSpecific advice on how to recruit for diversityEffective retention tactics such as mentoring, performance appraisal, and anti-raiding strategies that begin even before the candidate is hired

In addition, this invaluable guide includes a helpful "Recruiting Excellence Workbook," a 35-day plan of simple exercises and specific to-dos for assessing and improving your staffing initiatives. Both a revitalized approach for companies and a potent career booster for success-focused recruiting professionals, 101 Strategies for Recruiting Success is the key to putting the right people in the right jobs in the right places?and keeping them there.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814474071
• ISBN13: 9780814474075
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Amacom
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

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4-7 catagories for recruiting success

This book has useful information, though it does seem like someone experienced in recruiting would find it basic. I was a little disappointed that there aren't really 101 strategies as the title suggests. Right away, "strategy 1: what is a recruiter?" made me critical of the title. Though the book makes good points, probably only about 30 of the strategies would be considered such. The rest are commentary and information. The author stresses being creative and "thinking out of the box" in numerous 'strategies.' The book is a good source to learn the basics of recruiting, or to give someone ideas on how to improve their recruiting department, but I agree that the title is misleading.

101 Strategies for Recruiting Success

It's an extremely scary thought but many Human Resource professionals aren't even trained in HR. They are simply people whose jobs have been downsized and the company had no where else to put them. How can these people possibly find the right people for the right job? 101 Strategies for Recruiting Success is a one of a kind resource that provides a solution for recruiting woos. The book is packed full of very specific ways to find qualified potential employees and how to match these individuals to their dream job. These strategies are presented in a very intuitive fashion to help the beginner learn the basics and build from there. The invaluable material contained in these sections is presented in a clear and meticulous way that can easily be integrated into real business hiring decisions.

An Invaluable Resource That Got Me Started In The Biz...

I could not disagree more with the short and pointless critique above. This book covers many facets of the business and is incredibly helpful both to rookie headhunters in the trenches (like myself) as well as to corporate HR departments. It's a double edged sword of course because the more corporate HR leaders read this and follow it's wisdom, the less they will need headhunters like myself but that's because it is excellent advice and you can't fault that. The individual who made the snarky remark above about planning your day and not liking the general advice that this book offers needs to understand that recruiters are their own bosses and the way to run your desk is to plan out each day to a T and to understand how to prioritize based on what your employers needs are as well as your own. It's not that complicated but is incredibly important! In short, someone who takes the time to read the book and apply it's teachings will find themselves as I did in a position to find the right people everytime through creativity, perseverance and true honest to goodness work (rather than relying on the job boards and other "low-hanging fruit" that keeps corporate america forever looking for trained individuals like myself to find the people they need). Good luck to all my peers out there and take the time to study this book!!