Foolproof Hiring - by Brad Smart (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book will show you how to attract a lot of applicants, effectively screen-in just the best candidates, assure candidate transparency and honesty, reveal not just candidate strengths but their weaker points, and enable you to always get accurate verification of what candidates said. The Resources section will help you get started using the tools and methods you will learn about, and present ways to continue your mastery of Topgrading.

Our promise to you is this: use just the methods featured in this book and you will begin hiring more A Players, whether you are a CEO, first-level supervisor or HR professional. And yes, there is unprecedented evidence that Topgrading delivers the promised results. We have dozens of documented case studies and hundreds of informal accounts, from Global 100 companies to fast-growing start-ups, that achieved an average of 85% success hiring high performers. Tens of thousands of managers have accelerated their careers using this process to ensure their teams boast mostly A Players. And Topgrading methods utilize hard, factual candidate information to minimize bias and discrimination.

We've written Foolproof Hiring to get you started in your quest to hire better. Think of it as first aid for your hiring ailments. You will learn methods that can produce quick improvement, but, continuing the metaphor, reading this book will not turn you into a "Hiring Brain Surgeon." Some keys, such as in-depth interviewing, require more learning and practice to master. Think about the training necessary to become an EMT versus the education and experience necessary to work as a surgeon; the same principle applies here. Using the solutions in the book to get some quick hiring wins will motivate you and your team to keep learning and practicing the methods. As you continue to improve your hiring success rate you will achieve a really strong, cohesive team that not only has fun, but gets better results.

Book Synopsis

In their book Foolproof Hiring, business leaders and hiring experts Brad Smart and Chris Mursau give readers an easy-to-follow instruction course in Topgrading. This nationally - known and time-tested hiring methodology has been a proven winner in finding A players for thousands of businesses for more than thirty years.
Smart and Mursau distill the key tenets of Topgrading -- a systematic and comprehensive process - into simple explanations of the most common hiring problems. Then they offer clear and practical solutions to each problem. Deploying an effective mix of narrative, anecdotes, third-party research and more, the authors bring real-life hiring scenarios into sharp focus while offering a clear path for hiring managers to jump-start their efforts to find and hire more high performers.
Any hiring manager - not just HR managers - can benefit from the tools and processes in Foolproof Hiring. It's your key to streamlining your hiring so that you're seeing fewer but better candidates so you can pack your team with A players. That's a formula that's better for you, your career, and your organization. Why settle for mediocre hiring methods when you can leverage the knowledge and experience of proven results in the world of finding and hiring top talent.

From the Back Cover

**Greatness Starts with Hiring the Right People. **

WHEN YOU GET HIRING RIGHT-bringing A Players into the organization and giving them the freedom they need-you set yourself up to succeed. Then why do so many hiring managers get it so wrong so often?

It's because they take the easy way out: gather a bunch of résumés, find what looks like a decent match, ask the same uninspired questions, and hope for the best, which statistically turns out to be a mis-hire about half the time.

The good news is there is a better way. One that can help you uncover dishonesty by applicants, overcome a lack of sufficient information about who candidates really are, and verify the facts you need to make effective hiring decisions. It's Topgrading, the breakthrough hiring method pioneered by Brad Smart.

Now, Smart and his coauthor, Chris Mursau, share the key elements of the Topgrading system distilled into an easy-to-read guidebook. They identify the most vexing hiring problems and deliver clear, practical solutions.

What would hiring 75, 80, or even 90 percent high performers do for you, your career, and your organization? Let Foolproof Hiring show you the most proven keys to successful hiring.