103 Rules forHiring People Who Can Do the Job

Most hiring is done by busy people a few times a year, with a process inherited from whoever last had a vacancy. The advert describes an ideal candidate instead of a normal week, the interview rewards whoever is best at interviews, and the surprises turn up after the contract is signed, for the new starter as well as for you.

103 Rules for Hiring People Who Can Do the Job is a practical guide to the whole decision, from the day a vacancy appears to the week the new person can manage without help. In short, direct chapters, it covers deciding what the job really is, writing an advert people can recognise, screening fairly, interviewing for evidence, testing the actual work, choosing someone you can explain, making an offer that matches the advert, and a first month that someone owns. Where the law on discrimination, adjustments, right to work or data protection comes in, it says so and tells you when to take advice.