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Summary: An excellent guide for High Tech Executives and HR
Review: Adamsky has produced a superb guide to the Hiring Process that is of great interest to Executives, Recruiters and Job seekers alike. The book is applicable to a wide range of industries well beyond the IT industry. The book provides a great deal of actionable ideas that you can put into place now to improve your hiring practices, land the best candidates, and keep them as satisfied productive employees. Similarly, the book helps potential applicants better understand the hiring process and get inside the mind of hiring managers. It also contains a plethora of valuable and interesting ideas and commentary on the HR landscape. Truly an enjoyable and informative read !
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Summary: Still Pertinent?
Review: As it was written near 2000, a chapter or two suffer from obsolescence already, but the excellence of the rest of the content make it very forgivable.
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Summary: A must read for IT Managers!
Review: As the MIS Director for a large educational institution, I have felt the impacts, first-hand, of recruiting and retaining top IT professionals in a tight job market. Yet there is clearly a methodical approach that can be followed to target the "right" employees and, once hired, ensure that they remain happy and content within your organization. This book does an excellent job of outlining that process in a simple, easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach. The author not only covers all aspects of the hiring process but also reminds us of best practices that we too often (and too easily) forget to ensure success once we bring top players on board. This book was pertinent and informative. I intend to pass it around to all of the managers on my staff.
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Summary: A must read for IT Managers!
Review: As the MIS Director for a large educational institution, I have felt the impacts, first-hand, of recruiting and retaining top IT professionals in a tight job market. Yet there is clearly a methodical approach that can be followed to target the "right" employees and, once hired, ensure that they remain happy and content within your organization. This book does an excellent job of outlining that process in a simple, easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach. The author not only covers all aspects of the hiring process but also reminds us of best practices that we too often (and too easily) forget to ensure success once we bring top players on board. This book was pertinent and informative. I intend to pass it around to all of the managers on my staff.
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Summary: Smart employers will read this book.
Review: How can you hire and retain top IT professionals? Howard Adamsky's book provides a solid, step-by-step process in an easy-to-read manner. Adamsky first focuses on planning, a step that's often skipped, but is crucial to finding and hiring the right people for your organization. He then covers candidate generation, interviewing essentials, the hiring decision and closing the deal. Other chapters discuss techniques for motivating employees and provide specific ideas on how to retain them. Frankly, what Adamsky says applies not just to recruiting IT personnel, but to recruiting first-class individuals for a company in general-and keeping them!
As an executive who has built and grown companies in difficult hiring environments, I thought this book was right on point. It is packed with valuable information that is based on experience, not theory. Talent is the single most important factor in building and growing a successful organization. This book details how a company can gain an advantage by attracting and hiring the right person--superior talent--for the right job. I think that it greatly increases the chances of hiring (and retaining) "A" people and thereby, creating an outstanding company.
The bio states that Adamsky is the founder and President of HR Innovators. However, Hiring and Retaining Top IT Professionals is not so much innovative as, in my opinion, a classic manual on how to build a first-rate organization.
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Summary: A Pleasant Surprise!
Review: I feel better prepared to operate in today's challenging job market after reading this book. As an IT professional I have had occasion to be on both sides of the interview desk. This book clarified and reinforced many of the beliefs that I formed from these experiences. However, I derived an even greater benefit from those sections that challenged my preconceptions. Mr. Adamsky's use of logic, examples, and self-deprecating humor helped me to see things from a different viewpoint. I am confident that a company can only benefit from the encorporation of his strategies.
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Summary: A boon to job seekers and providers alike
Review: This book is a boon to job seekers and providers alike. I recommend it highly. As an IT professional I have had occasion to be on both sides of the interview desk. This book clarified and reinforced many of the beliefs that I formed from these experiences. However, I derived an even greater benefit from those sections that challenged my preconceptions. Mr. Adamsky's use of logic, examples, and self-deprecating humor helped me to see things from a different viewpoint. As a result I feel better prepared to operate in today's challenging job market.
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