Don't Hire the Best: An Essential Guide to Picking the Right Team (Paperback)

Don't Hire the Best: An Essential Guide to Picking the Right Team Book Description

About the book :

"A very useful book for all involved in the task of hiring high-potential talent" - Azim Premji

Qualification, experience, competence and personality how should a manager weigh these while recruiting? Does it pay to take on a star performer? What, indeed, is the secret of good hiring?

Theres no organizational process more important than recruitment. However, traditional resume- and interview-based hiring often does not account for the most important factor: personality. But what individual traits must one measure, and how? Skilled interviewers know that the trick lies in not just asking questions that challenge the candidate, but in figuring out whether his or her answer reveals a fit between the companys expectations and the personality of the interviewee.

In Dont Hire the Best, Abhijit Bhaduri brings his vast experience in leading HR teams at Wipro, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Colgate and Tata Steel to answer these and related questions on hiring judiciously. Bhaduri particularly underlines here the difference between hiring the right fit vis--vis hiring the best. He includes case studies ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups with barely a handful of people in leadership roles to large global organizations, and provides a comprehensive guide on how to balance the person, the role and the company culture the only way to appoint people who will be successful.

About the author :

Abhijit Bhaduri works as the chief learning officer for the Wipro group. He lives in Bangalore, India. Prior to this, he led HR teams at Microsoft, PepsiCo, Colgate and Tata Steel, and worked in India, South East Asia and the US. He has written columns for the Economic Times and articles for the Hindu Business Line, People Matters magazine, and Operations Research & Management Sciences Today. Abhijit has published two works of fiction with HarperCollins India: Married But Available and Mediocre But Arrogant.

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