Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Great Teams

Discover the hiring secrets for building a strong, powerful, profitable team — one person at a time!

Almost everyone involved in the hiring process understands why it is so critical to find the very best candidate for a particular job. But few understand how to do it. People base hiring decisions on gut reaction or on a largely irrelevant set of criteria. All too often, the resulting employee is ineffectual, unmotivated, or simply not a good fit with the job they were hired to do — which can damage morale, team performance, and ultimately profits for years to come.

In Talent Rules!, veteran headhunter and renowned hiring expert Lou Adler lays out a step-by-step system that will empower you to hire the right person every time. Lou's proven methods — which include detailed interview and assessment checklists and specific benchmarks — will enable you to evaluate a candidate based on measurable performance objectives, rather than your own impulses, and make consistently sound hiring decisions that result in a strong, cohesive team that operates at optimum levels.

Lou also shares insights on utilizing the latest recruiting technologies to approach and attract great candidates right from the start. You'll discover:

• What you could be saying in your job descriptions that attracts the wrong candidates — and more importantly, doesn't attract the right ones
• How the top candidates look for jobs, and what you need to do to get your position in front of their eyes
• The two effects that lead to more hiring mistakes than any others
• A radically different way of defining jobs — both internally and externally
• The most important interview question of ALL TIME — it will give you 65-75% of everything you need to make a hiring decision
• The 10-factor assessment form that will empower you to accurately determine a candidate's performance potential
• Highly effective ways to overcome compensation challenges and persuade a great candidate to take your job
• How to maximize the power of online sourcing channels like Google, CareerBuilder, Monster, and more

Finding great talent is both more critical and more challenging than ever before.

Talent Rules! will give you a huge competitive edge and the best possible chance of attracting and hiring the single best person for the job, your team, and your bottom line.