Ask the Right Questions, Hire the Best People, Fourth Edition

by Ron Fry

Book Overview

In this completely updated new edition, best-selling author Ron Fry takes you step-by-step through the hiring process. Whether you're replacing an employee who's leaving or creating a new position in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632651300
• ISBN13: 9781632651303
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Career Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Verbalizes Instinctual Reactions

It does have good information - which would be more helpful to some than others - but what the best value seemed to be for me was that it helps verbalize instinctual reactions. This could be extremely helpful for a new recruiter or a new manager who has a sense of how the interview went, but does not know exactly how to explain their take-aways. I would definitely recommend it to people in those positions; however, after some experience, I think this information becomes pretty well engrained and the book, irrelevant.

For the interviewer and interviewee both

This book with the 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Questions book should be part of the arsenal of all job hunters. Great insight into the interviewer's mind.

Basic HR, good for non-HR interviewers

Interviewing job candidates is not as easy as it looks. And in today's world, with legal constraints and applicants driving interviews, the process is certainly different than in the past. This book offers some good practical tactical advice for interviewers, presenting the information in a way that's easy to grasp. This ease of understanding is vitally important for department heads and other people who now participate in sequential or shared interview experiences. If you don't interview applicants every day, you just don't know this information.Fry has written other books on this topic---from the applicant's perspective. He's the author of the strong-selling "101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions." It's interesting to watch him play both sides of the table like this whole hiring process is like a grand game of chess.But, hiring people is not a game. It's serious business. To hire the right people, you have to ask the right questions. It's important to understand what the answers are telling you and how your questions and the applicant's answers guide your hiring decisions. The Table of Contents is sparse. It really doesn't help the reader determine where to find things in the book. Fortunately, there is a somewhat helpful index that can assist, but that's going backward. The book begins with some preliminary information about job advertising and resume screening. Chapter 2 explores interview styles including telephone interviews, team interviews, behavioral interviews, and stress interviews. Next, the reader is instructed about what to look for in the interview, then comes the interview process itself. Various categories of questions are presented, with suggestions of good answers (represented by the green light graphic) and not-so-good answers (represented by the red light graphic). This pattern begins on page 72 and continues through the balance of the book. I felt a sense of too much of a pattern, like an assembly line process, in the presentation of the information, though there is value in the advice that is shared. Chapter 11, Staying Out of the Legal Cauldron, may be one of the most valuable chapters of the book. It contains several pages of questions that interviewers are NOT allowed to ask by law. In those organizations (most?) that have supervisors and potential co-workers interview applicants, this information is vital to impart.

A Good Read!

This book is exactly what it says it is: A list of questions designed to make your interviews with prospective job candidates more effective in weeding out the pretenders and uncovering that dream hire. There's not a lot of strategic content here, but this book is rich in tactical detail. For example, most of author Ron Fry's theoretical advice amounts to two points: probe for specifics and keep the applicant talking. The repetition of this self-evident advice is the book's biggest flaw. But in the end, such shortcomings are irrelevant, because the book's real value is in its list of interview questions, with accompanying comments on what answers you should be looking for. It seems impossible that you could read this book and not stumble over one question that makes you smile and tuck it away to spring later on some unsuspecting interviewee. We at getAbstract.com recommend this book to human resource professionals or any manager charged with hiring. If nothing else, it will add an arrow or two to your quiver.

Simple but thorough guide

Hiring new employees is a painful process especially if you have to fire them afterwards. Bad hiring will result in deterioration of business performance. The author with his nice and simplisitic approach divides the book into eleven chapters that covers in a successive way starting from the basics of advertising to defining the job to asking the proper questions. It emphasizes principles of asking questions and interpretting them. Mr Fry did his best to provide examples and simplify interviewing techniques in easy to use format. Actually, I read it twice because it takes time to digest all the information and decide which sequence of questions to use. I like it and I do recommend it. If you are busy person and need quick reference book, this is the book you need.