Bradford D. Smart Livres

The Smart Interviewer In 20 years of specializing in interviews,management psychologist Brad Smart has successfully interviewedmore than 4,000 candidates for selection or promotion, trained over3,000 hiring managers in how to interview, and counseled thousandson how to manage their careers. The Smart Interviewer is aculmination of this vast experience. In it, Smart shares with youthe secrets to successful interviewing. Written in a most readablestyle and featuring humorous cartoons, this book will immediatelyhelp you improve your interviewing effectiveness. You'lllearn:* How to build excellent rapport* How to apply the TORC Technique for motivating the interviewee tobe totally candid and reveal negatives* How to conduct productive reference calls* How to correctly interpret an interviewee's responses* How to prepare for an interview, how much time to take during aninterview, how to focus your questions in ways that will revealwhether the interviewee meets your organization's needs ornot--plus the latest hiring legalities you should be aware ofThe Smart Interviewer will help you avoid costly mishires andmispromotions and give you strategies and tools to hire productive,high-caliber employees that meet your company's needs.

Great companies don’t just depend on strategies—they depend on people. The more great people on your team, the more successful your organization will be. But that’s easier said than done. Statistically, half of all employment decisions result in a mishire: The wrong person winds up in the wrong job. But companies that have followed Bradford Smart’s advice in Topgrading have boosted their successful hiring rate to 90 percent or better, giving them an unbeatable competitive advantage. Now Smart has fully revised his 1999 management classic to reintroduce the topgrading concept, which works for companies large and small in any industry. The author spells out his practical approach to finding and managing A-level talent—as well as coaching B players to turn them into A players. He provides intriguing case studies drawn from more than four thousand in-depth interviews. As Smart writes in his introduction, “All organizations, all businesses live or die mostly on their talent, and any manager who fails to topgrade is nuts, or a C player. . . . Those who, way deep down, would sooner see an organization die than nudge an incompetent person out of a job should not read this book... Topgrading is for A players and all those aspiring to be A players.” On the web: http://www.topgrading.com/