Hire the Best
Hire the Best: Find, Interview, and Select Top Talent
Hire the Best is a must read for managers and team leaders who are involved in finding, interviewing, assessing and selecting talent.
Leaders know that the right hire can make a significant positive impact on team performance. In fact, hiring for a key role is among the most important decisions a leader can make, and yet, interviewing, assessing and selecting talent can be fraught with pitfalls and blind spots that often result in marginal hires.
Inside Hire the Best you’ll find a formula along with tools and techniques that build your skills and effectiveness in hiring top talent.
Blue Key Partners provides flexible training solutions and advisory services to help leaders build their team’s skills to find, assess, and select top talent.
Online two-hour Hire the Best course
This course is designed for managers and team leaders involved in interviewing, assessing, and selecting talent. We focus on key drivers impacting the hiring process and introduce the frameworks and tools to bridge common gaps in interviewing and assessing candidates. We share real-life stories about missteps in decision-making through the hiring process and help you recognize and avoid those same pitfalls. This course provides a strong introduction and reinforcement to the interview techniques covered in this book.
In-person one-day and two-day Hire the Best workshops
These courses are designed for Human Resources professionals, recruiters, and managers who are frequently involved in interviewing, assessing, and selecting talent. Workshop participants apply the Hire the Best formula to a real position opening and experience the opportunity for live interviewing practice and individual feedback from the expert instructor.
Contact us for more information or to arrange a workshop for your team.
More about Hire the Best
Hire the Best is designed for managers, team leaders, and anyone else responsible for finding, assessing, and selecting talent. Whether you are running a small business, growing a start-up, or managing in a well-established medium-sized or large company, you know the impact that having the right person in the right job can make.
The need to find and hire top talent transcends teams, organization levels, companies, and industries. Whether the hiring decision will be made by one leader, or by team consensus, each participant in the selection decision should know how to Hire the Best.
Even in very large organizations with well-defined staffing processes and legions of internal recruiters coordinating the flow of candidates, it’s ultimately a leader’s skills in identifying, interviewing, evaluating, and selecting talent that are pivotal to hiring the best.
Because hiring for a key role is among the most important decisions a leader can make, we wrote this book to enable you to Hire the Best. The book focuses on key drivers impacting the hiring process and introduces frameworks and tools to bridge common gaps in interviewing and assessing candidates.
In this book, you’ll find a formula to recognize and avoid common pitfalls in the hiring process.
Many of you picking up a book titled Hire the Best may be either preparing to hire or deep in the process of hiring for your organization. Others of you may be interested in how to go about improving the odds of hiring the right person for the right job at the right time but do not have an immediate hiring need. Regardless of your situation, you will learn practices that will increase your odds of hiring the best—from building a powerful talent brand to successfully onboarding a new employee.
Hire the Best includes helpful resources and examples in a robust appendix, including a comprehensive Hire the Best process checklist.
About the Authors – Laura Butcher and Don Lang
Hire the Best results from our more than 60 years of collective experience helping organizations and leaders assess and select top talent. It’s here that we share the insights, tools, and techniques that we have applied:
- As Insiders—while in leadership roles where we had direct hiring responsibility in multinational organizations such as General Electric, Bank of America, and Delta Air Lines. We’ve been on the front line of hiring—we’ve walked in the shoes of the hiring manager, finding, assessing, and selecting talent across the globe.
- As Advisors—supporting organizations with hiring decisions, talent and succession planning, M&A-related talent assessment, and in the challenging space of post-merger HR integration decision-making in North America, Asia, and Europe.
- As Instructors and Coaches—facilitating assessment and interviewing training for groups and individual coaching with executives, managers, and Human Resources leaders and professionals in Fortune 500 firms, including 3M, Delta Air Lines, Citibank, General Electric, and Lockheed Martin in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the US. And we’ve worked with a variety of medium and small-cap firms in technology, retail, CPG, and not-for-profit sectors to help them skillfully hire.
