The CEO's Guide to Talent Acquisition
Sanford Rose Associates is pleased to offer this resource of top techniques and advice on recruitment and hiring to CEO’s and hiring managers.
From the back cover
What one ingredient determines and defines the success of your company? Human Capital. Identifying, attracting, and retaining top executives is your most important initiative in the next decade of explosive change in business. Are you prepared? Did you know that:
- Fact: Talent acquisition and retention is the #1 issue CEOs face today
- Effective interview skills for executives are the most difficult to develop, yet the most neglected training in corporate America today
- Fact: Finding top executives is harder than ever in our technology-driven world
- Competition for talent has never been so aggressive and at light-speed
- Demographic shifts, remote and mobile workers make sourcing talent challenging
- Performance metrics and detailed job specifications will uncover thousands of dynamic, talented, and interested executives…if you learn how to recognize them
- Your success as a leader is judged by the company you keep
The CEO’s Guide to Talent Acquisition is an engaging, lightning-fast, insightful book in stark contrast to the overstuffed business tomes lining book shelves today. Heavy on practicality, easy to pack in your carry-on bag, this field guide delivers profitable ideas that you can implement between the time you take off from New York and land in Atlanta. This book delivers the metrics and insights to secure top executive talent now.
Messengers Garner, Tolan, and Riendeau deliver fast-to-implement, effective, real-world ideas with a steady dose of humor and storytelling flare for hurried executives in need of proven metrics and tactics for securing top talent in our competitive marketplace. Combining their experience of over 110,000 interviews and collective insights in executive search, consulting, management, and behavioral research, this trio champions key initiatives and systems in the quest for human capital your competitors overlook.
Paperback
175 pages
Reviews
The war for talent is real. These three executive recruiters deal with it every day. If you want your company to win and be known as an employer of choice, heed their advice.
Lay the foundation for talent-attraction strategy. Start with job specifications that identify core competencies and skill sets.
Open your mind: The best talent doesn't necessarily come from your industry. Nor does it exclude older workers who, based on the authors' research, "stay with companies longer, are less likely to call in sick, are more willing to work overtime and are more reliable."
Make sure your recruiters and hiring managers are salespeople, too. Companies have to sell prospective employees on their opportunities to contribute and add to their résumé.
Word to the wise about recruiting: Don't chase purple squirrels (the ideal job candidates). They don't exist.
Final words: "When you hire people smarter than you, you prove you are smarter than they are."
- By JIM PAWLAK / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News (Read the article)
