The Hiring Handbook
A Toolkit for Recruitment, Assessment, and Selection Success
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The Hiring Handbook
A Toolkit for Recruitment, Assessment, and Selection Success
About this book
How can you consistently hire the right people?
The Hiring Handbook by Kasey Harboe Guentert and Mollie Berke is a practical, evidence-based guide for managers, HR leads and departmental heads who want to improve hiring outcomes, strengthen interview design and make data-backed decisions.
Written by hiring experts with experience at Korn Ferry, Airbnb and Meta, this toolkit takes you step-by-step through defining job requirements, creating structured interviews and evaluating candidates with objectivity. It focuses on the strategies mid-career professionals need to build teams that deliver measurable results.
You'll learn how to:
- Pinpoint essential skills and attributes through job analysis
- Write compelling job descriptions that attract top candidates
- Design structured interviews that produce fair, consistent results
- Create predictive interview questions and minimize bias with data-driven evaluation
Packed with practical tools, real-world examples and proven frameworks, The Hiring Handbook equips you to make confident, informed decisions that strengthen performance and reduce costly hiring mistakes.
Themes include: hiring strategy, structured interviews, candidate assessment, bias reduction, data-driven recruitment
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE WHY Structured Assessment
- 1 Embrace Human Insight
- 2 From Frenzy to Fallout: The High Cost of Over-hiring and Its Aftermath
- 3 The Funnel
- 4 Your Stakeholders
- PART TWO WHAT to Assess
- 5 Overview of Job Analysis: About Those Miraculous, Time-Saving Interviews
- 6 Job Analysis
- 7 Job Analysis, Step by Step
- 8 Building Your Job Profile and Job Description
- 9 Food for Thought
- PART THREE HOW to Assess
- 10 Out-of-the-Box Questions: Why the Beer Test and Guessing Games Don’t Belong in Interviews
- 11 Screen to Focus on the Most Qualified
- 12 Structure Focuses on What Matters Most
- 13 Building Structured Interviews
- 14 Other Interviewing Methods and Assessment Types
- 15 Let’s Write Some Questions!
- 16 Creating Candidate Trust
- 17 Conducting Your Interview
- 18 Including Multiple Interviewers
- PART FOUR WHO to Select
- 19 Taking Outstanding Notes
- 20 It’s All About Metrics
- 21 Using Evidence to Make Ratings
- 22 Making a Decision
- PART FIVE Other Considerations
- 23 Can Human Bias Be Helped?
- 24 Privacy and Employment Best Practices: United States
- 25 Privacy and Employment Best Practices: Europe and the UK
- 26 Privacy and Employment Best Practices: India and China
- 27 Cheating, Leakage, and Lying
- 28 Continuous Improvement
- 29 GenAI: General Tips
- 30 When the Standard Hiring Process Doesn’t Fit
- 31 Concluding Thoughts
- Index