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Selecting and Hiring Winners

“The world is full of willing people; some willing towork, the rest willing to let them.”Robert Frost

One manager recently confided to us, “I don’t know much about wrongful terminations, but I sure have made some wrongful hires in my time!” In the previous chapters, we have discussed the skills needed to manage employees effectively once they are on the job. In this chapter, we will review the skills needed to hire the right people. When the right person is in the right job, it makes all the other skills we have discussed in this book much easier to practice.

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