The Hiring Handbook

A Toolkit for Recruitment, Assessment, and Selection Success
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-3986-2165-7
Verlag: Kogan Page Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

How can I improve the quality of my hires? What's the best way to structure interviews and how can I ensure that the questions I ask provide the information I need? How can I make sure that hiring decisions are based on data and not judgements?The Hiring Handbook is an essential guide for all mid-level managers and HR professionals. It offers practical guidance on how to design effective recruitment and assessment processes. This will ensure these practitioners hire the best candidate for each role and consequently, the business as a whole. It explains how to carry out job analysis for each vacancy in the organization, write job descriptions to attract the most suitable candidates and covers how to write effective interview questions. There is also guidance on how to structure and evaluate interviews as well as how to record evidence from interviews and deliver candidate feedback. Most importantly, this book shows how to ensure that hiring decisions are consistent and free from bias and explains how to adopt a data-driven approach to selection. Written by hiring experts who have worked on sourcing, assessing, interviewing and hiring the right candidates for global firms including Korn Ferry, AirBnB and Meta, The Hiring Handbook is a gold-standard guide for hiring the employees that your business needs to succeed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guentert, Kasey Harboe

Berke, Mollie

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Data Mining

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• • Chapter - 01: The Importance of Improving the ;
  • Chapter - 02: Job analysis;;
  • Chapter - 03: Building Your Job Profile;
  • Chapter - 04: Writing Effective Job Descriptions;
  • Chapter - 05: How to Assess;
  • Chapter - 06: What to Assess;
  • Chapter - 07: Screening Candidates;
  • Chapter - 08: Structuring Interviews;
  • Chapter - 09: Writing Effective Interview Questions;
  • Chapter - 10: Recording Evidence and Evaluating Interviews;
  • Chapter - 11: Hiring Metrics ;
  • Chapter - 12: Recruitment Analytics ;
  • Chapter - 13: Candidate Feedback ;
  • Chapter - 14: Consistent and Bias-free Decisions

Über Autor(innen)

Berke, Mollie
Mollie Berke is an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist who specializes in leadership assessment and development. She has conducted 1000+ assessments and has spent her career helping organizations-from startups to Fortune 500s-make better talent decisions. Mollie's work has spanned leading firms, from competency modeling and leadership assessment and development at Korn Ferry, to building and implementing structured interviewing at scale at Meta, to her current role as Managing Director at Modern Executive Solutions, where she designs and delivers leadership assessment and executive coaching for senior executives. Now the co-author of The Hiring Handbook, Mollie brings a practical, evidence-based guide to HR professionals, managers, and small business owners who are looking to hire with confidence.

Kasey Harboe Guentert is a consultant with APTMetrics, a human resources consultancy specializing in talent management solutions. Prior to this she was Head of Global Assessment, Selection and Measurement at Airbnb and Global Talent Selection Manager at Meta. She is based in San Francisco, California. Mollie Berke is a Managing Director at Modern Executive Solutions. Prior to this she was a Global selection Science Partner and Global Talent Assessment Partner at Meta and a Leadership Assessment and Succession Consultant at Korn Ferry. She is based in Jacksonville, Florida.