Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting and Orienting New Employees » (4th Edition)

Diane Arthur (Northport, NY) is president of Arthur Associates Management Consultants, Ltd., a human resources development firm. She has more than 30 years of experience as a consultant, workshop leader, and lecturer, and is the author of several books on human resources management.

Nothing is more important to the productivity of an organization than its hiring program. For almost 20 years, this book has been the go-to reference on every aspect of the employment process.

Known for its practical and down-to-earth approach and jargon-free tone, Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees is now in its Fourth Edition, with fresh information on today's recruitment challenges, interview methods such as peer interviewing and video interviews, documentation issues, reference-checking guidelines, and new orientation programs. Readers will also find expanded coverage of electronic recruiting and other recruitment sources, applicant testing, and much more.

The book comes packed with a full complement of step-by-step guidelines, ready-to-use interview questions and scripts, forms and checklists, and other valuable hiring tools that will help get great employees on board quickly and effectively.

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Arthur offers a fully updated version of her 1986 guide to answer the questions of recruiters in the 90s. She includes a greatly expanded list of recruitment sources, questions to ask (and not ask) in an interview, selection guidelines, recent developments in employment legislation, and ready-to-use forms. Distributed by Gale. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)