How to Hire: The Essential Guide to Recruit & Retain the Right People

by Clint Smith

Overview

Hiring has never been more challenging. There are fewer qualified applicants with more employers competing for them. And most business owners are stuck trying to figure this out on their own. Most books on hiring are written for HR professionals.

How to Hire was written to give owners & operators a playbook to achieve hiring success. How to Hire covers everything you need to hire the right people, including:


• Clarifying mission/vision/values


• Understanding who you need


• Attracting high-quality candidates


• Running an effective hiring process


• Building a winning culture

The strategies and processes described in this book are proven. Clint Smith has worked closely with hundreds of business owners to develop them. This playbook is the foundation for his company's hiring software, which is used by over 17,000 companies to hire over 100,000 people per year.

TOOLS TO GET YOU STARTED

How to Hire was written with one word in mind: ACTION. We created a website with all of the resources you need to attract, hire, and onboard the right people for your team, including:


• Ideal candidate profiles


• Job description templates


• Interview guides


• Onboarding checklists


• Training plans

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781645433248
Publisher:	Amplify Publishing
Publication date:	08/08/2023
Pages:	248
Sales rank:	1,121,072
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Clint Smith is the founder and CEO of CareerPlug, whose hiring software powers the growth for over 17,000 companies. Clint resides in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Sarah, and their family.

Editorial Reviews

★ 2023-06-26
A clear, practical guide to consistently recruiting and retaining excellent employees.

“Anything is possible with the right people,” writes Smith, the founder and CEO of a firm that designs business management software. Acknowledging that effective hiring is difficult, Smith walks readers through the process. The book comprises three sections: “Culture” outlines the necessity of understanding and articulating the business’s values, mission, etc.; “Recruit” covers identifying hiring needs, strategies for recruitment, interviewing, and making the hire; and “Retain” advocates persuasively for keeping staff engaged and motivated by providing support and investing in professional development. Each section includes thought-provoking questions like: “Who is helping you see your blind spots during the hiring process?” and “Are you selling job seekers on the responsibilities or the opportunity?” Throughout, Smith emphasizes that recruiters consider what’s important to the role rather than a broad list of attributes. He offers concrete suggestions for incorporating hiring best practices, providing plenty of examples and anecdotes from his own experiences; he notes that while his first hire as an entrepreneur was a winner who helped build the business over 12 years, the next two were disastrous and had to be fired. He also references other well-known companies and authors including Zig Ziglar, Carol Dweck, and Daniel Pink. Readers can visit the companion website howtohire.com (which isn’t currently live) to download sample checklists, templates, and worksheets for implementing the systems described in the text. Smith’s approach, intended for hiring managers without specific HR expertise, is a refreshing departure from most conventional advice on hiring (and getting hired), which focuses on beating systems or verifying skill sets. Many companies claim, perhaps disingenuously, that their greatest asset is people, but Smith provides the resources to make that claim a reality.

A sensible, cleareyed playbook for attracting, developing, and retaining top performers.

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