How to Hire A-Players: Finding the Top People for Your Team - Even If You Don't Have a Recruiting Department

Chapter 1. The Value of A-Players

Almost no one wants to spend time on recruiting. You know it's important and has to get done, but you are busy. Typically, your team is shorthanded during the recruiting process. You have an open position, after all, which makes you even busier. So why take the time to read this book and commit to hiring A-player employees?

Thriving Businesses Are Built by Teams of A-Players

Nothing has a bigger impact on the results of your business and the quality of your life than hiring—and keeping—A-players. Perhaps you have a vision for growing your business, having a great life and career, and then selling your business one day for a sizable sum. If you don't hire great people, those dreams will fizzle. Dedicate yourself to hiring A-players today if you want to be a leader who turns this vision into a reality. Whether you have a sophisticated recruiting apparatus or not, you must figure out how to find, attract, and employ A-players. It is essential for success.

Chief executive officer of Meridian Enterprises Corporation Sam Toumayan started his company in 1978 as an incentive travel company. A number of Sam's peers founded similar companies around the same time. More than three decades later, Meridian stands as a transformative power in the sales incentive industry. Companies around the globe use its patented credit card–based programs. Meridian has changed this industry forever, while similar companies that started at the same time have gone out of business ...