Mastering the Hire: 12 Strategies to Improve Your Odds of Finding the Best Hire

by Chaka Booker

 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.

 Mis-hires siphon your energy and erode team culture. Replacing them is stressful and can cost over $40,000 per re-hire. With the right tools, all of that can be avoided, and you can consistently make great hires.

 After years of scientific research and first-hand interview experience with thousands of candidates, 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 provides strategies that will dramatically improve the one decision that determines everything you can accomplish--who you hire

Genres: Business, Nonfiction

208 pages, Paperback

Published March 24, 2020

Reviews

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are many great recommendations in here, and I will definitely reread multiple times and find ways to implement some of these practices in my own work. This was written by the managing director of The Broad Center, who has done MANY interviews for that program, and there’s a lot of research on the career success (or lack thereof) with their program participants which makes these suggestions feel trustworthy.

Format: Print (Paperback)

[Heather Peske · Rating 4 out of 5]

Practical, good strategies, fairly quick read.

[202 unknown · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Vovka · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best book on hiring I've read in a long while. Very actionable and thoughtful advice for making better decisions in hiring.

[Greg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. There are many on the subject of hiring, but Booker gets into specifics and deftly uses specific cases and dialogues to show how the principles look on the ground. I found this very accessible and immediately actionable.