Both the Report and Daily Advisor should be of great help in your part of the hiring process. Now let's turn to that other part … improving the performance of the hiring manager:

Do you have managers and supervisors whose talent is anything but hiring?

Here's the solution you need ... for under $20!

Every organization has them. Managers and supervisors with great talent in production or marketing or finance or, well, anything but hiring. Yet hiring is one of the most important things they have to do.

Yes, you send them the best candidates you can find. But if department heads can't properly articulate what they want in a new hire, or if they're unrealistic about what they can get … If they can't interview properly, or mess up an interview by over promising or posing inappropriate or even illegal questions … then what can an HR professional do?

Do this:

Get those managers BLR's unique guidebook, QuikStep Hiring: The Step by Step Guide to Every Manager's Most Important Responsibility.

The cost per guide is less than $20. Yet because the quality of your hires is what ultimately determines any company's future, it may be the best investment you can make.

In one brief read, look at all your colleagues will learn:

• Rules, policies and laws of the hiring process, including EEO, ADA and those increasingly important requirements for immigrant workers.
• Who does what in the hiring process, including placing ads, dealing with agencies, and conducting initial interviews. Also, how to avoid a huge mistake right off the bat by making sure the position is properly approved, and by identifying who, besides themselves, needs to ok the hire.
• How to clarify your mental picture of the perfect candidate. We provide a checklist of attributes, and a method for translating these attributes into an objective job specification you can use in recruitment.
• How to prioritize resumes, in a way that makes more time for worthy candidates by eliminating time wasted with those not qualified.
• How to use skills testing before the interview to weed out those with personal charm but not the abilities to do the job.
• The art of conducting an "indicative interview," and the necessity of treating all applicants similarly in an interview to avoid claims of discrimination.
• 27 word-for-word interview questions virtually guaranteed to produce a flood of information
• What you absolutely can't ask about! This includes a section covering not only overt discrimination, but also reverse and de facto discrimination.
• The risk of "negligent hiring," a legal concept under which you can actually be sued for giving someone a job when you "should have known" not to!
• A mathematical matrix system of grading your best candidates to avoid a purely subjective decision
• How to make offers that touch on all the positives and are hard to refuse

Better hiring in under one hour

QuikStep Hiring is designed to be read in under an hour, with information presented in short bursts of concise information, reinforced by checklists and bulleted chapter summaries.

It can literally be read over lunch. Buy that problem manager a sandwich and put a copy on his or her tray! Or better yet, download one each time a manager comes in with a hiring request.

Can you really afford to NOT instruct ALL your hiring managers in how to better build your company's future? Especially when the cost to do so is so low?

DownloadQuikStep Hiring for every hiring manager now!

Questions? Or more convenient to order by phone?

Dial 800-727-5257 and speak to a customer service representative. BLR is always happy to hear from you.