The Effective Hiring Manager

Essential hiring and team-building lessons from the #1 Podcaster in the world The Effective Hiring Manager offers an essential guide for managers, team leaders, and HR professionals in organizations large or small. The author s step-by-step approach makes the strategies easy to implement and help to ensure ongoing success. Hiring effectively is the single greatest long-term contribution to your organization. The only thing worse than having an open position is filling it with the wrong person. The Effective Hiring Manager offers a proven process for solving these problems and helping teams and organizations thrive. The fundamental principles of hiring and interviewing How to create criteria to hire by How to create excellent interview questions How to review resumes How to conduct phone screens How to structure an interview day How to conduct each interview How to capture interview results How to make an offer How to decline a candidate How to onboard candidates Written by Mark Horstman, co-founder of Manager Tools and an expert in training managers, The Effective Hiring Manager is an A to Z handbook to the successful hiring process. The book explores, in helpful detail, what it takes to hire the right person, for the right job, and the right team.

Essential hiring and team-building lessons from the #1 Podcaster in the worldThe Effective Hiring Manager offers an essential guide for managers, team leaders, and HR professionals in organizations large or small. The author's step-by-step approach makes the strategies easy to implement and help to ensure ongoing success.Hiring effectively is the single greatest long-term contribution to your organization. The only thing worse than having an open position is filling it with the wrong person. The Effective Hiring Manager offers a proven process for solving these problems and helping teams and organizations thrive.* The fundamental principles of hiring and interviewing* How to create criteria to hire by* How to create excellent interview questions* How to review resumes* How to conduct phone screens* How to structure an interview day* How to conduct each interview* How to capture interview results* How to make an offer* How to decline a candidate* How to onboard candidatesWritten by Mark Horstman, co-founder of Manager Tools and an expert in training managers, The Effective Hiring Manager is an A to Z handbook to the successful hiring process. The book explores, in helpful detail, what it takes to hire the right person, for the right job, and the right team.

Introduction xiSection 1: Principles 11 The First Principle of Effective Hiring--Don't Hire 32 The Second Principle of Effective Hiring--Set Your Bar High 93 The First Principle of Effective Interviewing--Say No 13Section 2: Preparation 194 Behavioral Interviewing and Preparing Your Hiring Criteria 215 Creating Behavioral Interview Questions 316 Behavioral Interview Question Examples 39Section 3: Screening 417 Screening Résumés 438 Screening Social Media 679 Conducting Phone Screens 7310 Having Human Resources Conduct Phone Screens 81Section 4: Conducting Interviews 8511 Video and Telephone Interviews 8712 Effective Final Interview Process 8913 Physical Interview Setup 9714 No Panel Interviews 10115 How to Conduct Technical Interviews 10916 Each Interviewer Uses the Same Set of Questions 11117 The Basic Structure of Each Interview 11718 How to Take Notes 13319 How to Probe Behavioral Interview Answers 139Section 5: Deciding and Offering 14520 Interview Results Capture Meeting (IRCM) 14721 How to Check References 15522 How to Offer 16523 How to Decline 17324 How to Handle Two Viable Candidates 181Section 6: Onboarding 18725 Onboarding New Hires 189Afterword 197Acknowledgments 199About the Author 201Appendix 203Index 217