Swan's How To Pick The Right People Program

By William S. Swan

Book Overview

Written by a well-known lecturer and consulting expert, this book shows how to attract, interview and select the best employees. Based on the author's seminars and extensive consulting practice, each chapter deals with a specific interviewing and selection skill. The chapters are short, practical, and easy to read. They detail methods of defining desirable qualities and how to shape questions that focus on these needs. The author covers every aspect of the process from sequencing and timing, to honing listening skills and interpreting the resulting information, and discusses how to overcome the difficulties that arise from many how to be interviewed books. The text will be of interest to managers, human resources personnel, job seekers and small-business owners.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471621897
• ISBN13: 9780471621898
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 2.6"

Customer Reviews

Best book ever on this topic

I'm a management consultant who used to be a corporate recruiter, and have taught thousands of managers and executives how to interview others. This is the ONLY book I recommend. It is exceptionally detailed, and provides a complete approach. It gives you scripts, and tells you what to do and say in each part of the interview. It also tells you the one thing managers always forget to ask (and other books don't address) about interviewing: it's not enough to know which questions to ask, you must also know HOW TO EVALUATE THE ANSWERS YOU GET. This is the only book you need about how to interview. Mark Horstman

Employ staff, you must read this book

This book finally allowed me to be able to hire the right people, unfortunately near the time I sold my business. I only wish I had found it when I went into business, however that was before the book was published.