Talent Makers

1The Problem and the Promise

The war for talent is over.

Talent won.

If you're the leader of an organization or a team, it's a pretty safe bet that time is precious to you. You want people to get to the point quickly. We'll do that for you right now. Here's this book in a nutshell:

• People know that hiring is important.
• They know that their “system” of hiring is broken.
• They don't know how to fix it.

This book is not for HR professionals, though they may benefit greatly from it. Instead, this is a book for you the leader of a team of any size. It will give you specific, actionable advice about how you can not only fix your hiring problems, but how you can turn hiring into an astonishing competitive advantage. You will improve your hiring quickly, substantially, and measurably. If you wish, you can do all of this without buying any software. The transformation will not be easy, but we will lay out for you a proven method to make it work.

There you have it. That's the book.

If you've reached a point where you have had enough with the pain and chaos of hiring and you want to get really good at it, then you've come to the right place.

The Sorry State of Hiring

We'll get much more detailed later, but let's take a quick, depressing tour of what hiring looks like in a great many organizations. We'll look at hiring from several different perspectives.

Candidates

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