October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 51m
English
book
HBR's 10 Must Reads 2021
by Harvard Business Review, Marcus Buckingham, Amy C. Edmondson, Peter Cappelli, Laura Morgan Roberts
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Your Approach to Hiring Is All Wrong
by Peter Cappelli
BUSINESSES HAVE NEVER done as much hiring as they do today. They’ve never spent as much money doing it. And they’ve never done a worse job of it.
For most of the post–World War II era, large corporations went about hiring this way: Human resources experts prepared a detailed job analysis to determine what tasks the job required and what attributes a good candidate should have. Next they did a job evaluation to determine how the job fit into the organizational chart and how much it should pay, especially compared with other jobs. Ads were posted, and applicants applied. Then came the task of sorting through the applicants. That included skills tests, reference checks, maybe personality and ...