Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude

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Praise for HIRING FOR ATTITUDE Success in business starts with finding great talent that will thrive within your company culture Hiring for Attitude combines valuable insights with relatable examples, giving you the tools to recruit the right talent for your organization and reduce your risk of mishires BRENT RASMUSSEN, President of CareerBuilder North America Caesars brings our brands to life through the attitude of our team members In Hiring for Attitude, Mark Murphy combines the science of selecting for attitude with the wisdom of how to apply it to your business The tools in this book are clever and unique and will immediately enhance your culture Attitude is the new front in the war for talent, and this book positions you to win TERRY BYRNES, Vice President of Total Service, Caesars Entertainment In the global high tech world, attitude is critical But how do you discover whether someone is both technically brilliant and a perfect fit with your culture Moving way beyond standard hiring approaches, Hiring for Attitude has deepened our talent pool, shown us how to discover untapped talent, reduced the risk of hiring the wrong person, and cut turnover substantially MITCH LITTLE, Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Applications, Microchip Who s getting hired this year People with great attitudes who can fit a particular culture But traditional hiring approaches don t help you discover who is and isn t the perfect fit Hiring for Attitude will reveal exactly what attitudes you need to succeed Whether you re hiring from outside, or choosing the right internal people for a new project, this book gives you unparalleled insight into people s attitudes SAM HOLTZMAN, President and CEO, LifeGiftAbout the Book In a recent groundbreaking study, the training firm Leadership IQ found that 46 percent of all new hires fail within their first 18 months But here s the real shocker 89 percent fail for attitudinal reasons not skills.Most hiring managers are getting it wrong Of course skills are important, but a particular skill set is about the easiest thing to test in an interview Although much harder to recognize, attitude should be your number one focus during the hiring process Don t suffer from poor chemistry even one employee with the wrong attitude could cause years of suffering for your other employees and customers.Whether you re hiring new employees, choosing existing employees for a new team, or upgrading your current talent pool, you need people with the right attitude Attitude is what makes employees give 100 percent effort and turns customers into raving fans Attitude sets your company apart from the competition.In Hiring for Attitude, top leadership strategist Mark Murphy shows you The five biggest reasons why new hires failTwo quick and easy tests to discover the attitudinal characteristics that you need for your unique cultureThe five part interview question that gets candidates to reveal the truth about what their last boss really thinks of themWhere great companies really find their best candidatesThe six words most interviewers add to the end of behavioral interview questions that destroy their effectiveness Hiring for Attitude includes case studies from Microchip, Southwest Airlines, The Ritz Carlton, Google, and other companies that drive great results by hiring for attitude.Whether your company is small or big, highly social or hyper competitive, fl at or hierarchical, every person on your payroll has to fit your culture You can t afford to hire blind You need to be Hiring for Attitude. Best Read [ Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude ] by [ Mark Murphy ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr The best and most practical book I have read on hiring so farCreated mindmap during reading Main points The attitudes that work in your organization are unique Standard interview questions don t assess attitude A few simple questions will reveal if someone s attitude is right for you There s an answer key that will grade a candidate s attitude The grammar that people use predicts whether they are a good or bad fit The way most companies recruit chases away the best people Hiring for Attitude The best and most practical book I have read on hiring so farCreated mindmap during reading Main points The attitudes that work in your organization are unique Standard interview questions don t assess attitude A few simple questions will reveal if someone s attitude is right for you There s an answer key t...As a senior leader in a school, I ve wondered about, over the past two years, how we can better identify great potential employees in the hiring process while avoiding hiring toxic employees Murphy s book offers the perfect solution to solve that problem His brilliant strategies offer easily implementable ways to identify each workplace s unique necessary characteristics that make high quality employees successful as well as the qualities that will make employees unsuccessful there The As a senior leader in a school, I ve wondered about, over the past two years, how we can better identify great potential employees in the hiring process while avoiding hiring toxic employees Murphy s book offers the perfect solution to solve that problem His brilliant strategies offer easily implementable ways to identify each workplace s unique necessary characteristics that make high quality employees successful as well as the qualities that will make employees unsuccessful there The strategies he presents involve little cost, and I think will yield a huge amount of information to help a workplace better identify what makes it unique and what to look for in hiring and motivating high quality employees There are many common sense strategies provided including ones on addressing how to evaluate employment candidates for qualities that fit one s unique business and how to train both new and existing employees on...Some interesting ideas here, but not sure how I could adapt some of them to a library setting I found some of his terminology a bit odd and distracting as well Still not a waste of time to read, in general, and helps inform my ideas about interview questions at the very least.This book is good learning tool for the beginners in the recruitment process It gives a clear message that it is all about the attitude, character, approach, willigness to learn, personality All the rest can be learned skills.Great beginners tool for hiring based on attitude It helps to identify the questions that will differentiate good hires from bad hires for your specific company It is especially great for small businesses who need to work closely together with one another.It is a book that every HR MUST read Moreover even if you don t have anything to do with HR I still recommend to read this book as it can help you to grow as a person, to prepare for the job interviews or even to change your attitude and your behavior towards your job Hiring for attitude is based on the LeadershipIQ study of 20.000 employees over 3 years period and interpretation of results followed by recommendations how to improve those results.It covers topics as before hiring you must It is a book that every HR MUST read Moreover even if you don t have anything to do with HR I still recommend to read this book as it can help you to grow as a person, to prepare for the job interviews or even to change your...That is a book that almost made it to my to read again bookshelf I will get back to it for sure, but rather as a how to guide when I ll be actively redoing the cultural fit interview parts of recruitment in my organisation present and probably in the future as well This book is actually almost a step by step instruction on what to do, to start focusing on culture attitude in your organisation, starting from discovering it or parts of it , along with recruiting for it, and in the end also That is a book that almost made it to my to read again bookshelf I will get back to it for sure, but rather as a how to guide when I ll be actively redoing the cultural fit interview parts of recruitment in my organisation present and probably in the future as well This book is actually almost a step by step instruction on what to do, to start focusing on culture attitude in your organisation, starting from discovering it or parts of it , along with recruiting for it, and...Great stuff I really liked the brown short questions method for creating the right set of questions for interviews But what I truly loved was word pictures towards the end, that actually educates your employees for the proper mindset and to always share what s the right ...Some good takeaways I run a very small retail operation so a lot of the ideas seemed bigger than what we can institute and geared toward much larger organizations.Offered some great thinking points for me to evaluate what can not only help with my employees but focus points for the business overall.It s the first book I read on this topic and I found it very interesting For a long time I considered the hiring process something that requires only experience, but this book made me realize the science behind it I always found annoying typical interview questions and wanted to le...

Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude
  • English
  • 08 March 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 240 pages
  • 007178585X
  • Mark Murphy
  • Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude