Who: The A Method for Hiring [Kindle Edition] Author: Geoff Smart | Language: English | ISBN:
B001EL6RWY | Format: PDF, EPUB
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You can download Who: The A Method for Hiring [Kindle Edition] Free PDF for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50 percent.
The silver lining is that “who” problems are easily preventable. Based on more than 1,300 hours of interviews with more than 20 billionaires and 300 CEOs, Who presents Smart and Street’s A Method for Hiring. Refined through the largest research study of its kind ever undertaken, the A Method stresses fundamental elements that anyone can implement–and it has a 90 percent success rate.
Whether you’re a member of a board of directors looking for a new CEO, the owner of a small business searching for the right people to make your company grow, or a parent in need of a new babysitter, it’s all about Who. Inside you’ll learn how to
• avoid common “voodoo hiring” methods
• define the outcomes you seek
• generate a flow of A Players to your team–by implementing the #1 tactic used by successful businesspeople
• ask the right interview questions to dramatically improve your ability to quickly distinguish an A Player from a B or C candidate
• attract the person you want to hire, by emphasizing the points the candidate cares about most
In business, you are who you hire. In Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street offer simple, easy-to-follow steps that will put the right people in place for optimal success.
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- Print Length: 208 pages
- Publisher: Ballantine Books; 1 edition (September 30, 2008)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B001EL6RWY
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I just finished reading a pre-release copy of the book Who by Geoff Smart and Randy Street. Wow, it's good. Really good.
Geoff and his father Brad Smart are well known as the team that popularized Topgrading, a thorough interview process that takes the success rate for new hires from the average of about 50% to just over 90%. I don't know of a business owner alive who wouldn't love to increase the effectiveness of the interview and hire more effectively.
Smart and Street are experts in their field - they are paid huge sums of money to do this for some of the biggest and best companies in the world. Their research estimates that the average hiring mistake costs employers 15 times the salary of the incorrect hire. The number sounds absurdly high, but when you include salary, lost productivity and opportunity costs, it's plausible. Frightening.
Who is a fast and simple read, but is heavy on content. It begins with a discussion of what they call voodoo hiring, or the process most business owners use during the interview process, and it was painful for me. I'm guilty of voodoo hiring and I'm guessing most of you are, too. Much of my process is guessing and gut feel, and is done over too short of a period of time. It's not hard to see the need for a change.
Next comes a simple explanation of why hiring "A" players is so important. They define an "A" player as the right superstar for the job, a talented person who fits in well with your company culture. B and C hires cost you money; A's make you rich.
The meat of the book is about the four keys to what they call the A Method : Scorecard, Source, Select and Sell. I can't do justice to the brilliance of the system in this short review, but here are the basics.
As a corporate director of human resources and business book author, I am always interested in new books that deal with the age-old problem of hiring the right person. I received my preview copy from Churn-baby-churn last week (great service!). It is very well written and flows smoothly from topic to topic. I must say that I was pleased with the overall content of the book but a little disappointed due to the reviews and pre-publication buzz not matching my expectations.
To begin, the subject matter is crucial to an organization's success. Some simply luck into hiring A players (even a blind hog will occasionally find an acorn) but so many do not put in the effort. This book makes a strong point that it is often a lack of effort on the part of management that prevents excellent hiring. I totally agree. I also agree with the "voodoo hiring methods" as I have seen these processes implemented through the years with astounding failure. I have been guilty of "voodoo hiring" myself.
I find difference with two aspects of the book. One is the process of using the Scorecard, Source, Select, Sell approach to hiring. Individually, they all have merit in parts or whole. However, as a system, I believe it would be somewhat cumbersome and eventually fail as a process. It also has the appearance of being a "fad" of which I strive to avoid. With that said, according to an organization's culture, select parts of this process could be adapted and implemented I believe with great success.
The other difference is the author's clear embrace of a total scientific methodology in making selections. In fact, the book states that the `gut instinct" is unreliable and should never be utilized in an interview. For the young and uninitiated manager, I agree.
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