The Essential Guide for Hiring and Getting Hired: A Performance-based Hiring Handbook
By Lou Adler

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Companies say hiring top talent is a strategic imperative. Yet, many of the hiring methods and policies work against this imperative. Job descriptions focus on skills and experience, which leave many top performers out of the equation. Screening based on compensation ranges weeds out quality candidates. Traditional interviewing lends itself to bias, while behavioral interviewing doesn’t effectively link a candidate’s answers to actual job requirements. According to Lou Adler, Many of these problems can be addressed with a systematic approach: performance-based hiring.

In this book, Lou outlines the various elements of the Performance-based hiring business process and explains its effectiveness. It’s a systematic yet unconventional approach to hiring top talent, requiring a mindset shift. That’s what the content of this book achieves: a shift in thinking about the traditional hiring practices frequently used today, and how to attract and source the top talent your company is really looking for.

Leaders interested in helping their companies win the war for talent in the long run will want to read this book.  Buy it now.