Recruitment

On Staffing: Advice and Perspectives from HR Leaders

As HR leaders know, successful staffing is about much more than just hiring qualified people. It s about hiring the right qualified people and keeping them.

To help you do that, On Staffing covers the new and innovative business initiatives managers from leading companies are using to assess the potential of people and place them in positions in which they can maximize that potential. It analyzes the practices that work, offers strategies for dealing with rapidly changing business and hiring environments, and helps HR leaders prepare for the changes and challenges to come.

Recruiting, Retaining And Releasing People

The greater part of an HR budget is spent on recruitment and retaining good people is key to a company's success. This book contains essential and up-to-date material around recruitment and retention including those issues that are currently pressing on companies with regard to flexibilty, returning to work, coaching and skills shortages. The problems of retirement, redundancy and dismissal are also addressed which is an integral part but not included in many texts. It provides the student and the professional with one place to find all the aspects and consequences of good practice in recruitment and retention.

Paperback, 272 pages

Audience
Undergraduate level students on management courses and those studying Certificate or Diploma of the CMI. Chartered Management Institute people management modules and the CIPD Professional Development Scheme. A handy guide for both managers and HR professionals alike.

Contents
Recruiting People: Recruitment – a modern perspective. Keeping People: Retention, Redeployment, Women Returning to Work, Job Evaluation Schemes, Retirement, , Redundancy, Removal, A Goals Orientated Approach to Appraisals, Briefing, Assessing, Reinforcing, Coaching People, Discipline & Grievance. Removing People: Retirement, Redundancy, Removal, The Future of Work.

Personnel Selection, 4th Edition

Popular with students, academics and professionals alike, this is the fourth edition of Personnel Selection. A thoughtful, entertaining and comprehensive text, this edition has been thoroughly revised to focus on the key issues and the latest research in this rapidly developing field.

Features of the fourth edition include:

The use of the internet in job application, recruitment and assessment.
How job analysis is changing to meet changing concepts of the nature of work, leading to an increasing emphasis on broader abilities and dispositions.
The big five model in personality: new measures, new reviews of selection research, links to job analysis, the use of broad factors vs. more specific facets.
The problem of faking in personality questionnaires: its extent and its impact on selection decisions.
The effectiveness of teams (as opposed to individuals) in terms of personality and ability.
Adverse impact in selection, especially education, interview, biodata, assessment centres, personality tests, honesty tests.

This book is essential reading for students and professionals in occupational psychology and HR who are interested in relating research to the real world practice of personnel selection.

Paperback
344 pages

Preface to the first edition.

Preface to the fourth edition.

1. Old and new selection methods
We’ve always done it this way.

2. Job description and job analysis
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else.

3. The interview
I know one when I see one.

4. References and ratings
The eye of the beholder.

5. Weighted application blanks and biodata
How old were you when you learned to swim?

6. Tests of mental ability
‘a. . .man of paralysing stupidity. . .’

7. Personality tests
Total awareness of bottom-line vitality.

8. Assessment centers
Does your face fit?

9. Work samples and other methods
Education, work samples, physique, in trays, T & E ratings, drug use testing and self-ratings.

10. Validity
How do you know it works?

11. Criteria of productivity
We don’t know what we’re doing, but we’re doing it very carefully.

12. Minorities, fairness and the law
Getting the numbers right.

13. The value of good employees
The best is twice as good as the worst.

14. Conclusions
Calculating the cost of smugness.

References.

Index

The Interviewer's Handbook

Formal interviews are now used in a variety of workplace situations, whether in relation to the recruitment of staff, appraisal of employees, accident investigation or in a range of other circumstances. The Interviewer’s Handbook is a comprehensive guide to conducting formal employee interviews and provides the reader with tools for handling and achieving the best results from these formal settings.

Best practice information and easy-to-follow guidance are included and the following areas are examined:

questioning techniques;
communication and listening techniques;
non-verbal communication and body language;
the interview process;
job analysis and design of work;
selection and recruitment interviews;
performance appraisal interviews;
attendance and absence management interviews;
discipline and grievance management;
accident investigation.

The Essential Guide to Recruitment: How to Conduct Great Interviews and Select the Best Employees

Few line managers are given formal training at recruitment processes and poor interviewing skills can cost a company both cash and customers. This book enables managers and HR professionals to master essential recruitment skills and develop an effective interviewing technique.

Since it is the interviewer’s responsibility to find the right candidate for the job, it is crucial that the interview is well designed. To be fit for the purpose the interview must be sufficiently demanding but, at the same time, respectful of the candidate. This book not only provides interviewers with tried and tested readymade interview questions, but also enables them to conduct fair and searching interviews.