Hiring & Firing

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Hiring and firing are too crucial to get wrong. Eliminate the guesswork in the two most important tasks you face as a manager.

Hiring and firing are difficult to get right . . . and potentially costly to get wrong–both for your career and for the business. Do you really want to take that kind of risk? Business expert Brian Tracy says you don’t have to! Hiring and Firing is the indispensable guide you absolutely must have by your side. This handy resource breaks down the simple but powerful strategies you can use to both bring better employees on board and weed the weaker ones out. By learning to implement these techniques that Tracy can testify firsthand to the effectiveness of, readers will be able to:

• Write appealing and accurate job descriptions
• Find suitable candidates
• Ask the right questions
• Probe past performance
• Listen for the questions that indicate interviewees are qualified and serious
• Provide clear direction and regular feedback
• De-hire gracefully
• And more

At best, hiring and firing the wrong people wastes crucial company training time and money, while also reflecting poorly upon you. At worst . . . it could literally mean the beginning of the end for the business. Are you willing to take that chance?