Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees - Hardcover

Arthur, Diane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814420249 ISBN 13: 9780814420249

Verlag: Amacom, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Nothing is more important to the productivity of an organization than its hiring program. Broken into four parts, this book spans the journey from recruitment to interviews to making an offer to orientation. As president of a human resources development firm, author Diane Arthur is full of insights on the latest staffing challenges, including changes in technology such as virtual interviews and recruitment, web-based orientations, and the use of electronic files and social media. Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees offers practical information to help your business overcome these challenges and beat-out competitors for the best talent. You’ll learn about interview methods, documentation issues, reference-checking, orientation programs, and applicant testing, and you’ll gain up-to-date knowledge on new FMLA legislation, immigration, record keeping, I-9 compliance, and much more. Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting and Orienting New Employees has long been the go-to reference on every aspect of the employment process. Packed with forms, checklists, guidelines, and ready-to-use interview questions, the revised fifth edition provides readers with the tools they need to get employees on board and ready to succeed.

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DIANE ARTHUR is president of Arthur Associates Management Consultants, Ltd., a human resources development firm. She has more than 30 years of experience as a consultant, workshop leader, and lecturer, and is the author of several books on human resources management.

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A comprehensive guide through all four stages of the employment process, Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees has long been the go-to source for anyone involved in staffing. Now this fully revised and updated fifth edition offers even more in the way of step-by-step guidelines on every aspect of the hiring process, specific interview and reference questions to ask (plus ones to avoid), and information on the latest recruiting strategies and orientation programs. What’s more, it provides information on many of today’s technological staffing challenges, such as virtual interviews, web-based orientations, electronic files, and social media. Readers will also find legal insight into new FMLA legislation, immigration, and record keeping, as well as ways to establish and adhere to standards of excellence.

Written for both HR and non-HR practitioners in any work environment, this book helps you:

• Determine the competencies required for optimal job performance

• Weigh the pros and cons of dozens of traditional and cutting-edge recruiting strategies

• Set goals and parameters for both HR and departmental interviews

• Keep hiring programs consistent with EEO and federal record-keeping requirements

• Ask a powerful mix of question types (competency-based, hypothetical, probing, and open- and closed-ended) to determine who will make the best fit

• Use pre-employment testing effectively and fairly

• Conduct thorough and revealing reference checks

• Create effective departmental and organizational orientation programs

With numerous additions throughout every section, this long depended-upon reference features expanded content on such topics as recruitment sources for special interest groups, electronic recruiting methods, and the three distinct types of orientation: organizational, departmental, and web-based.

Much has changed in the workplace since the original publication of Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees, but one thing remains the same: The people you hire today are the lifeblood of your enterprise tomorrow. If you succeed in finding and hiring the best of the best, you will have played a key role in your organization’s long-term success. This book shows you how.

Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees has helped generations of readers supply their organizations with the people they need in order to succeed. The fifth edition continues the tradition.

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A genuine classic, Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees has kept readers up to date on the latest in staffing since its original publication. A practical and user-friendly guide to the entire employment process, the book—now extensively revised—contains forms, guidelines, and ready-to-use interview questions as well as guidance on topics including reference-checking, interview methods, documentation issues, orientation programs, applicant testing, and much more.

Smartly organized for easy, everyday reference, the book supplies you with proven strategies for getting employees on board and ready for long-term success during every phase of staffing:

• Recruiting

How to contend with a variety of recruitment challenges; take advantage of a range of sources; and keep up with the newest trends in online recruiting

• Interviewing

How to prepare for and conduct different kinds of interviews; ask more effective competency-based questions; and reveal strengths and potential concerns

• Selection

How to document the interview; perform legal and ethical background and reference checks; and create an efficient and consistent selection process

• Orientation

How to establish an effective employee orientation program that goes beyond the fundamentals

Reflecting today’s evolving workforce, fluctuating economy, and interviewing trends, the fifth edition contains new information on applicant and employer perspectives, including changing expectations about work/life balance and questions applicants are likely to ask of prospective employers. The book examines the rapidly expanding impact of social networks on the hiring process, as well as their their uses and legal risks. In addition, you’ll find information on web-based orientation programs, along with an assessment of their advantages and drawbacks.

The staffing function is among the most crucial in your entire organization. How you conduct each phase, from recruitment to orientation, can ultimately affect common organizational issues such as employee morale, absenteeism, and turn­over. Shedding light on all the traditional challenges of the hiring process while illuminating a host of brand-new topics, the fifth edition of Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees remains the go-to resource on staffing for any hiring environment.

DIANE ARTHUR is president of Arthur Associates Management Consultants, Ltd., a human resources development firm. She has more than 30 years of experience as a consultant, workshop leader, and lecturer and is the author of several books on human resources management, including Managing Human Resources in Small & Mid-Sized Companies; The Complete Human Resources Writing Guide; Workplace Testing; and the four previous editions of Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees. She lives in Northport, New York.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Amacom
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0814420249
• ISBN 13: 9780814420249
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 5
• Anzahl der Seiten: 370
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Amacom; https://www.harpercollins.co.jp/; ; Via Energy Park, 20; Vimercate; MI; 20871; Italien