{"product_id":"hiring-without-guesswork-nik-plevan-9781066747801","title":"Hiring Without Guesswork: How to Stop Relying on CVs, Gut Feel and Hope when Recruiting","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost hiring mistakes do not happen because employers are careless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey happen because the recruitment process encourages them to look in the wrong places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCVs tell you what candidates choose to say about themselves. Interviews often reward confidence, charm and preparation. Gut feel can be useful, but it can also quietly drag bias, habit and wishful thinking into the decision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHiring Without Guesswork is a practical guide for business owners, managers and team leaders who need to recruit well without wasting time, money or patience on a process that too often produces the wrong result.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in clear, down-to-earth language, this book challenges the traditional obsession with CVs and shows why past experience, qualifications and polished answers are rarely enough to predict whether someone will actually succeed in a role.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, Nik Plevan explains how to build a better recruitment process by starting with what really matters: the role, the working environment, the behaviours required, the personality factors that support performance, and the evidence needed to make a sound hiring decision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a theoretical HR textbook. It is a practical guide for people who have to make real decisions about real candidates, usually while running a business, managing a team and wondering why recruitment became so unnecessarily painful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, you will discover: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy recruitment often goes wrong before a job advert is even written\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to decide whether you really need to hire, or whether the problem lies elsewhere\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to define the role properly before you start looking for candidates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy job adverts should attract the right people, not just list demands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy CVs are unreliable as a first-stage screening tool\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to screen candidates more fairly and more effectively\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy personality can help predict future performance when assessed properly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow behavioural profiling can help with team fit, management and onboarding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy interviews need structure, evidence and discipline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to make better hiring decisions without relying on guesswork, charm or hope\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eHiring the wrong person is expensive, disruptive and draining. It affects customers, colleagues, managers and the person who should probably never have been put in that role in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHiring well is not about finding the perfect candidate. It is about understanding what the role really needs, gathering better evidence and making a decision based on more than a CV, a pleasant conversation and crossed fingers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you own a business, manage people or are responsible for recruitment, this book will help you think more clearly about hiring and avoid many of the mistakes that make recruitment far harder than it needs to be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Etalent Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50610596413633,"sku":"9781066747801","price":19.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/hiring-without-guesswork-nik-plevan-9781066747801","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}