Mastering the Hire

12 Strategies to Improve Your Odds of Finding the Best Hire

By: Chaka Booker

Narrated by: Van Tracy

Research shows you have a 50% chance of hiring the right employee… and a 50% chance of hiring the wrong one. It’s a?toss up, but it doesn’t have to be.

After years of scientific research and first-hand interview experience with thousands of candidates, author Chaka Booker has created a system that helps employers consistently make great hires.

Mastering the Hire provides 12 proven strategies that have been used to accurately identify the right talent 90% of the time. Whether hiring manager, business owner, CEO, search consultant, team manager, team member, novice or expert interviewer, Chaka’s method is for anyone who wants to beat the hiring odds.

?In this book, you will learn:

• How to manage?your intuition: when to trust it and when to put it aside.
• Question design principles: structuring questions so candidates are influenced to tell the truth
• The power of pressure: when to apply or release pressure and how to control the hidden internal pressure that leads to poor decisions.
• To identify key competencies: the four competencies you must always interview for and techniques to accurately assess them.
• Tools for removing?bias: tomorrow’s talent doesn’t fit yesterday’s mold and is often overlooked.
• Understanding and removing bias will give you a competitive advantage.

To?reimagine the hiring process: resume reviews, phone interviews, and in-person interviews will get a much-needed revamp with innovative twists on each.

The interview is the cornerstone of the hiring process, yet science has shown the odds aren’t in your favor. Mastering the Hire gives you strategies that will dramatically improve the one decision that determines everything you can accomplish--who you hire.

Critic reviews

'In this Networked Age, candidates increasingly control their career choices. The odds of finding great talent can easily shift against you. Mastering the Hire expertly re-thinks the interview and tilts those odds back in your favor. Your success still depends on the people you hire and this book's proven strategies will help you capture the best of today's talent.' - Reid Hoffman, co-founder of Linkedin and co-author of the Alliance

Two Thumps Way Up for Mastering The Hire!

Mastering the Hire is a great read which provides practical tools to use when determining who to bring into your organization. Chaka provides 12 strategies which can be used to help improve your odds of hiring the right person. I recommend this book to any hiring manager.