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    The Secrets of Selecting High Potential People
    The Secrets of Selecting High Potential People
    The Secrets of Selecting High Potential People
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    The Secrets of Selecting High Potential People

    By Adrian Furnham

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    Do you Know How to Select and Recruit High Potential People?  

    Recruitment and selection is a key task managers - at all levels - must be good at.  Get it wrong and the consequences are dire. Get it right and everyone wins.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateNov 8, 2013
    ISBN9781483512327
    The Secrets of Selecting High Potential People
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    Adrian Furnham

    Adrian Furnham is professor of psychology at UCL, and adjunct professor of management at the Norwegian School of Management. He has written over 1,000 scientific papers and 70 books and is among the most well-known psychologists in the world.

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    • 1/5
      More like the ramblings of a drunk guy in a pub who's once seen an episode of "The Apprentice" than actually useful insights.
    • 5/5
      The book is easy to read, non-technical, and above all, it makes sense. If you can be a good talent spotter, it will be an enormous benefit to your organisation, no matter what it is. Read this book and learn some key pointers, you will be happy you did.
    • 5/5
      So you think you are a great Interviewer? Do you know all about what to explore during an interview? Do you try to hire happy people, or do you think it is not so important? How about observing character strengths and competencies, people with high energy can be good or bad, do you know how to tell the difference? You will learn all of this and more, like all about body language during the interview. Don’t pass up the opportunity to read this underpriced book.
    • 5/5
      Anybody can hire people, but making selections based on potential is of utmost importance. Everybody knows that the more talented employees will out produce those of a lesser talent. This book gives a good basis for making the best selections of employees by knowing how to spot talent. I learned a lot about what abilities and characteristics to look for, and why. A great read.
    • 5/5

      I was very impressed with the author, Prof. Adrian Furnham. This guy has credentials that could cover an entire wall. He knows how to put his thoughts into words that are easy to grasp. His concepts are also easy to put to everyday use. I learned how to spot raw talent, and how to spot people with trouble-spots that I should steer clear of. You can’t go wrong sitting down with this book and giving it some focus.

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    The Secrets of Selecting High Potential People - Adrian Furnham

    The Secrets of Selecting

    High Potential People

    by

    Professor Adrian Furnham

    The Secrets of Selecting High Potential People by Prof. Adrian Furnham. Copyright © 2013 Cover art to the electronic edition Copyright © 2013 8ack International FZ-LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from 8ack International FZ-LLC, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. Purchase only authorised editions.

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    Preface

    Do you Know How to Select and Recruit High Potential People?  

    Recruitment and selection is a key task managers - at all levels - must be good at.  Get it wrong and the consequences are dire. Get it right and everyone wins.

    People are an organisation’s greatest asset, but also their highest cost.

    Many Human Resource departments are rightly seriously focused on, the recruitment, selection and management of talented people with high potential. We know from research that high potential people contribute and produce two and a half times those who are below average.

    Yet, it is not always easy spotting talent, what to look for, and whether a particular individual has the potential to succeed. 

    Looking back, most managers recognise that at some point they have poor human resources selection decisions and know the cost of doing so.

    The cost of letting someone go is enormous.  Severance pay etc. is an obvious one.  But consider the cost of the damage they have done while in-post and the business secrets, market intelligence and intellectual property they take with them.

    The aim of this book is to steer you in the right direction: recruitment best practices, to know what abilities and characteristics to look for… and why. We also know there is often a paradoxical effect with some personality traits that help people get selected and promoted, but which undermine them in the end. 

    This easy-to-read, non-technical, but highly sensible book will really make a difference to the way you go about how to spot talent; the high flyers of tomorrow.

    About the Author

    Professor Adrian Furnham MA MSc MScEcon DPhil DSc DLitt FBPsS Cpsychol is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the second most productive psychologist in the world since 1980 (as ‘counted’ by number of articles published), a mould-breaking academic, a leading consultant on organisational behaviour, writer, raconteur and broadcaster.

    He is a Professor of Psychology at University College London, a founder and director of Applied Behavioural Research Associates (ABRA) a management consultancy specialising in performance appraisal, personnel and corporate assessment and adjunct professor at BI Norwegian School of Management and one of the world's leading business psychologists.

    Adrian is on the editorial board of a number of international journals and the previous elected President of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences.

    He is also a newspaper columnist previously at the Financial Times, now at the Sunday Times. He is a regular contributor to national and international radio and television stations including the BBC, CNN, and ITV. More details in the latest ‘Who’s Who’.

    Adrian has worked extensively with a variety of multinational organisations including; HSBC, Vistage International (the world's leading chief executive organisation), Goldman Sachs, British Airways, The Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, Cathay Pacific, The Foreign Office, Barclays Bank, Marks & Spencer, Air New Zealand, Channel Four, Boots and the Ritz Hotel.

    He is also a member of The Leadership Trust's Advisory Council.

    Adrian has written over 1000 scientific papers and 70 books, primarily about leadership and management.

    Adrian is a renowned business speaker at corporate conferences - approachable, well-informed and entertaining. His witty insights into human behaviour provide an excellent foil for the seriousness of his subject.

    To book Adrian to speak at your conference or to run a Leadership Workshop, please email adrian.furnham@8ack.com

    Table of Contents

    The Secrets of Selecting High Potential People

    Preface

    About the Author

    Introduction

    Listening for Clues

    The Tendering for Business Interview

    Personality Testing at Work

    What to Look For When Selecting People

    Six of the Best

    Hire Happy People

    Character Strengths and Competencies

    Energy at Work

    Beware of Creatives

    The Motive Trilogy

    The Importance of Conscientiousness

    Problems in Interview

    The Selection Mistakes

    First Impressions

    The Personality of Referees

    Selection Superstitions

    Interview Lies

    People Who Interview Well

    Different Interview Techniques

    A Good Lunch

    Projective

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