Million-Dollar Hire

Tools for translating recruiting and hiring decisions intofinancial returnsEven in a down economy, U.S. business and government makemillions of hiring decisions every year. Every decision carriesrisk. Every hire is an investment. Ideally, every one pays areturn. In today's demanding environment, companies no longer haveroom to get it wrong. Million-Dollar Hire shows how leadingcompanies have re-invented themselves, beat their competition, andadded millions to their bottom lines with re-engineered recruitingand hiring practices. Using practical, real world illustrations, itshows that there are tools to treat every hiring decisionwith the same focus a business applies in acquiring otherhigh-value assets.* Shows how new technologies and social networking tools arebeing used to spider the Internet and find the best candidatesbefore the competition* Explains how different approaches to candidate screeningtranslate to different levels of financial return to abusiness* Reveals how to estimate the financial payoff for every hire andhow to avoid legal challenges* This is an invaluable tool for CEOs, CFOs, COOs and HRprofessionals who want to revamp what is often one of the leastsophisticated parts of a business-the ways it finds talent.