101 Strategies for Recruiting Success: Where, When, and How to Find the Right People Every Time
224101 Strategies for Recruiting Success: Where, When, and How to Find the Right People Every Time
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Overview
This book gives you quick, powerful strategies for revitalizing your techniques, and provides sage advice in bite-sized chunks, designed for immediate implementation.
A critical factor in your organization's success is your ability to hire?and keep?good people. In order to tackle the toughest recruiting assignments and keep your company running smoothly with great hires who are there for the long haul, you need to infuse both common sense and corporate street smarts into your approach.
101 Strategies for Recruiting Success offers practical tips of the trade from a recruiting professional with more than two decades of experience. You'll learn:
- Proven ways to reel in great talent, including how to make your general recruiting operations proactive rather than reactive
- 25 ways to find the people your company needs
- Smart and efficient methods for conducting interviews and evaluating candidates
- Specific advice on how to recruit for diversity
- Effective retention tactics such as mentoring, performance appraisal, and anti-raiding strategies that begin even before the candidate is hired
In addition, this invaluable guide includes a helpful "Recruiting Excellence Workbook," a 35-day plan of simple exercises and specific to-dos for assessing and improving your staffing initiatives. Both a revitalized approach for companies and a potent career booster for success-focused recruiting professionals, 101 Strategies for Recruiting Success is the key to putting the right people in the right jobs in the right places?and keeping them there.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780814474075 |
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Publisher: | AMACOM |
Publication date: | 10/12/2006 |
Pages: | 224 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d) |
Age Range: | 17 Years |
About the Author
Christopher W. Pritchard, SPHR, has more than 20 years as a recruiting professional in both corporate and headhunter capacities. His recruiting consultancy has served respected clients such as General Electric, Coopers & Lybrand, Ernst & Young, Lotus Corporation, Dell, and Boeing. He has been a contributing author to the Wall Street Journal Employment Weekly and is a frequent speaker on recruiting, retention, and diversity. He lives in Bay Village, Ohio.
Table of Contents
"Introduction
Chapter 1: Fifteen Strategies for Operational Success
Strategy 1: What Is a Recruiter?
Strategy 2: The Operational Audit
Strategy 3: The Importance of Planning
Strategy 4: Training and Development
Strategy 5: Simplify
Strategy 6: Make the Most of Metrics
Strategy 7: Manage Your Vendor Relationships
Strategy 8: Understand the Process
Strategy 9: Create Challenging Deliverables
Strategy 10: Manage Candidate Flow/Routing
Strategy 11: Earn Your Seat at the Table
Strategy 12: The Customer Satisfaction Survey
Strategy 13: Regular Meetings and Reports
Strategy 14: Take Off from the Baseline
Strategy 15: Organization Charts
Chapter 2: Successful Sourcing
Strategy 16: Media
Strategy 17: Outplacement
Strategy 18: Career Fairs
Strategy 19: Government Resources
Strategy 20: Social Services
Strategy 21: Professional Journals and Magazines
Strategy 22: Associations
Strategy 23: Community Resources
Strategy 24: Employee Referrals
Strategy 25: Company Alumni
Strategy 26: College and University Recruiting
Strategy 27: Alumni Associations
Strategy 28: Nontraditional Schools and Programs
Strategy 29: Military Outplacement
Strategy 30: Research Firms
Strategy 31: Contingency Recruiters
Strategy 32: Retained Search
Strategy 33: Open Houses and Other Planned Events
Strategy 34: Competitors
Strategy 35: Networking
Strategy 36: International Recruiting and Sourcing
Strategy 37: Internal Postings and Promotions
Strategy 38: Candidate Pipeline
Strategy 39: Roadkill
Strategy 40: Brainstorm
Chapter 3: Diversity Recruitment
Strategy 41: Attracting and Retaining Diverse Talent
Chapter 4: Hiring Success
Strategy 42 Partnering
Strategy 43 Planning the Process
Strategy 44 Recruiting
Strategy 45: The Employment Application Form
Strategy 46: The Interview
Strategy 47: Collateral Material
Strategy 48: Background and Reference Checking
Strategy 49: The Offer
Strategy 50: Paperwork
Strategy 51: Evaluation
Chapter 5: Retention Success
Strategy 52: Onboarding
Strategy 53: Mentoring
Strategy 54: Building a Sense of Community
Strategy 55: Recognition and Rewards
Strategy 56: Involvement
Strategy 57: Training and Development
Strategy 58: Keep Your Promises
Strategy 59: The Report Card
Strategy 60: Performance Appraisals
Strategy 61: Just Ask!
Strategy 62: Exit Interviews (Revisited)
Strategy 63: Golden Handcuffs
Strategy 64: Anti-Raiding Strategies
Strategy 65: Culture
Strategy 66: Environment
Chapter 6: Recruiting Excellence Workbook
Strategy 67: Conduct a Performance Self-Appraisal
Strategy 68: Read a Good Book
Strategy 069: Schedule Your Next Vacation
Strategy 70: Interview Employees for Whom You Paid a Fee
Strategy 71: Meet with Legal Counsel
Strategy 72: Write a Thank-You Letter
Strategy 73: Take a Walk
Strategy 74: Seek Advice
Strategy 75: Look in the Mirror
Strategy 76: Inspirational Sayings and Posters
Strategy 77: Visit the Library
Strategy 78: Connect with SHRM
Strategy 79: Call a Candidate Who Rejected You
Strategy 80: Be a Team Player
Strategy 81: Read Your Annual Report
Strategy 82: Set a New Goal
Strategy 83: Attend a Seminar or Take a Class
Strategy 84: Brainstorm
Strategy 85: Off-Site Meetings
Strategy 86: Take a Loved One to Lunch
Strategy 87: Count Your Blessings
Strategy 88: Interview a Client
Strategy 89: Fill Out an Application
Strategy 90: Visit Your Company’s Website
Strategy 91: Visit a Competitor’s Website
Strategy 92: Visit Internet Job Sites
Strategy 93: Interview Other Recruiters
Strategy 94: Visit a Career Fair
Strategy 95: Critique Your Tools
Strategy 96: Study Time Management
Strategy 97: Plan Your Day
Strategy 98: Seek Out a Mentor
Strategy 99: Be a Mentor
Strategy 100: Conduct an Operational Audit
Strategy 101: Take These Lessons to Heart"