The Perfect Fit: Advanced Recruitment Skills For Finding And Hiring The Ideal Candidate Paperback – 1 May 2009

I started working when I was twelve years old. I have been working ever since -- 45 years. What I want to know is where has this book been for those 45 years?I am not an interviewer, nor have I ever been a manager, but the knowledge in these pages could have helped me a great deal in my job searches.While I have known for a long time that companies, like countries, have a culture all their own, I did not know how to determine if I would fit into that culture.I never asked the correct questions that would have led me to turn down those job offers for which I was unsuited, no matter how qualified I was, and jump at those jobs for which I might have lacked a few qualifications but for which my own personal culture would have meant I would have grown in knowledge and skill and been happy in the job.Consequently, my personal work history has been hit and sometimes miss. I wish I had The Perfect Fit all those decades ago!If you interview others for a position within your company, you should read this book, learn from this book, really think about the information within this book. Hiring people is so much more than just finding a qualified person, it is about finding the right person.Hiring the right person does not mean hiring the person you personally like, but the person who will bring experience, energy, and excitement to a company that will help it to grow and improve.It can be difficult to determine if that right person is sitting across the desk from you unless you have the extensive knowledge and experience of Mr. Grimshaw. If you don't have it now, you can get it.Read this book and glean the knowledge. Adapt it, use it, let it help you.I now own my own business. I am manager and employee; I hired me and I'm quite happy with my choice. We get along. My business is growing and soon it could come to the point where I have to hire someone else. When that happens, I will get out this book and read it again. And maybe again after that. I will use the exercises and knowledge to help me find an employee or employees that will be a good fit within my company culture.I'll know how to ask the right questions, record what I find in a logical, unbiased manner, and understand the importance of not hiring someone "just like me," but someone who will bring skills and an energy to my business that will help it grow. Thank goodness this book, although 45 years a little late, is here now.I will definitely make good use of The Perfect Fit.By Sheryl Tongue, Colorado, USA

When I was first required to recruit staff, I had to learn the ropes myself without external support. The author of this book costs recruiting at £20K a time. The cost of getting the wrong person can be very high.This book details the recruitment process thoroughly. There are exercises to do (many based on NLP) that give important insites into why we are recruiting and who we want - for strategic fit with the company as well as filling a specific role. The book is well written, with a detailed summary at the end of each chapter for review.There are probably much shorter books out there on the recruitment process, but if you are after achieving "The perfect fit", and prepared to put in the effort to improve your recruiting skills, I believe that this book will prove to be comprehensive and useful.

Finding the right person for the job has to date largely been more a matter of chance than of good judgement.But, in these challenging times, businesses that hope to survive and prosper need rely on much more than pure luck.Ed Grimshaw's innovative book offers not just hope, but also the practical means to a very important end.Writing from a position of in-depth practical experience, this manual demonstrates that the skill-sets required to guarantee a "perfect fit" are learnable, and once learned, take the guesswork out of successful recruitment and employment.