Hiring Smart!: How to Predict Winners and Losers in the Incredibly Expensive People-Reading Game

by Pierre Mornell

Book Overview

Now in Paperback People are the most valuable asset in today'?'s fiercely competitive workplace. In HIRING SMART, now available in paperback for the first time, Dr. Mornell delineates 45 simple... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898159725
• ISBN13: 9780898159721
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 4.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Simply a "Must-Read" Tool for Employeers

Hiring Smart is an exceptional "must-read" tool for any hiring manager... and anyone looking for a job. In today's world when hiring poorly can lead to expensive mistakes, it is more important now than ever to get the "right" person in an organization.Hiring Smart is simply one of the best tools around for hiring employees. It is original and excellent - I cannot recommend it enough.

Every CEO should read this book.

Businesses compete on the basis of their talent today and allcompanies must find ways to hire and retain the best people in theirorganizations. Dr. Mornell's book is filled with sage wisdom on the hiring process that will save managers time and headaches and will remind them of tried and true principles of human bahavior. This is a carefully written book that is also entertaining and easy to read. It will stay with you and you will want to pass it on. I have sent it to many of my clients and friends. Every CEO should read this. John Davis, Harvard Business School

an incisive, engaging business book -- not to be missed

In the course of the year, many business books pass across my desk, and HIRING SMART is one of the most memorable of 1998/1999. With skill and wit, Dr. Mornell transforms the seemingly dry topic of hiring into a primer on how to read people and, in the process, invest in your company's most valuable resource-- its people. His thesis -- that a mistake in hiring can exact a toll on a company not necessarily apparent in the short run, but potentially devastating in the long run -- is developed through examples culled from his years as a hiring consultant to major corporations.Dr. Mornell breaks down the fundamentals of the hiring process into easy-to-grasp stages, and most importantly for those charged with hiring responsibilities, equips the reader with the information needed to immediately implement his 45 techniques. No person involved in the hiring process should be without this resource!I should add that the last reader's take on the book is a classic example of missing the forest for the trees -- the admittedly unconventional interview questions that he/she mentions appear in the appendix, and, as most critical readers would realize, are meant only to inspire out-of-the-box thinking, and not to be simply regurgitated. Regardless, they make up one-tenth of one percent of the book's content -- dismiss it on such grounds if you like, but you'll be missing out on a book that Tom Peters, Stephen Covey, and George Gendron (Editor-in-Chief of Inc.Magazine) have called the best hiring title on the market.

If you read only one book on hiring, this is it.

A truly excellent book on effective interviewing, selection and hiring. If a busy executive wants to read one book in order to make the best hiring decisions, I would recommend this one. Also excellent for seasoned HR professionals or people new to hiring or HR. There are few things more imporant to the success of a business then selecting and hiring the right people, and this book will show you how.

Clear, concise, great, fun reading !

If you're a manager or HR director for a company, read HIRING SMART. It was fun and quick to read and had numerous great ideas to improve the odds of hiring the right person the first time. As someone who has made many costly hiring mistakes, I plan to employ Dr. Mornell's tips immediately !