I have seen bad hires actually kill an early-stage company and this mistake is always a VERY expensive one I have hired many hundreds of people in my career and even hired 150 people over about a 6 month period once. After 15 years I have developed a system that I think insures about a 95% success rate, when the average failure rate of hires is more than 50%. Some of your hiring success rate is using a set of simple systems for the hiring process, some is philosophy and some is knowing the right questions to ask people to match them to the need. The bottom line is we can all always get better at hiring and this is one of the most leveraged ways to improve your business as doing it right it will pay big dividends for a long, long time.

I created this product because when I started as a CEO I had a lot to learn about hiring. Being an ex-engineer I try to develop a system for everything so I can measure, repeat and improve what I do each time. I wrote pieces of this book back in 1989, but only recently did I sit down and write all my hiring secrets. I have seen perfectly good companies destroyed by a single bad hiring and it is one of the saddest thing to observe. People can lose their life savings with a single bad hiring decision when their company is small. I hate to see this and so I decided to document my hiring secrets so other could benefit from my experience.

• Skill Set Framework System - A complete system to help you figure out who you will need in advance and determine the priority of the skill sets.

• Top Best Interview Questions of All Time - These questions will get candidates to reveal far more than they want to a break through the "interview" mode they are in to look their best to get to the real person.

• Top Ten Hiring Tips - Simple key ideas that most people do not stick to that will greatly improve your hiring results

• Top Ten Tips For Hiring Senior Executives - No decision is so crucial as hiring a key executive in a small company. These tips show you how to increase you odds of success here by 400%. Don't let a bad hire at this critical level stop or slow your company for six month while you give someone a chance to prove themselves. Be sure you have the right person on day one.

• Define Job Scope - The smaller a company the larger the job scope, or number of hat each employee must wear. Understanding this, mapping it out in advance and communicating it to your staff can really make a huge difference. You can not afford to have people saying "No my job man". This system will insure you avoid this disaster, but not depend entirely on interview answers or reference people volunteer

• The Most Common Hiring Mistake Made Today - Are you making this very common mistake. If so you are slowing down the development of your company and guaranteeing you will hire an inferior person for the job.

• When To Think About Using Interim Management Help - This is always better than no hiring at all or hiring the wrong person. So how do you know when to do it to optimize your company's sales and profits? This chapter will tell you when and how.

• Getting Value From Consultants - Nine of ten consultants are NOT going to do a good job for you because of problems built into the system. Knowing these problems you can avoid this and only hire consultants that will produce and benefit your company long term.

• A Framework For Employee Development - This system alone is worth thousands of dollar to a fast growth company. It can turn around a culture and allow people to develop at a faster rate and grow with the company. I developed this during that period when I hired about 150 new employees in about 6 months as rocketed a company to $156 million in annual sales over an 18 month period. This system allowed us to grow unabated during that period.

You should at least triple your hiring success rate using these systems. Average hiring success rates are less than 50% today, yet as high as 95% should be achievable if you follow all the guidelines here. This means you will have the best employees stay with you longer and hiring fewer people who do not stay by your choice or theirs. You should improve the match of people to the needed skills by NEVER hiring someone without the right skills for the current and future position. This fill in the blanks system will ask all the right questions for you to get this right every time. You will totally avoid the #1 hiring mistake today which is most likely screening out the best candidates before you even see them. You will learn how to hire and manage consultant and contractors better, to fill short term needs and wait for the right full-time employee instead of compromising on the first "warm body". You will get a complete system to virtually guarantee that every senior executive hire will be successful, when today the average company gets less than 50% success and every management level bad hire averages over $100,000 in actual expenses, plus in lost opportunity, plus lost customers and rehiring costs.

If you think about it you will realize that hiring is the most critical skill needed by any CEO or entrepreneur. No matter how good you are at anything else if you hire badly your company will fail. Yet did you ever take a course or read a book written by someone who has hired hundreds of people for early-stage companies? Probably not. And do you think human resources people will solve this problem for you? DEFINITELY NOT! I know successful entrepreneurs who are pretty bad managers and yet their hiring skills and intuition are so good that they have been hugely successful, literally making tens of millions of dollars off other people skills and abilities. I never met a successful entrepreneur who did not have decent hiring skills, though many could still improve 100% or more and they would be much more successful.

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