The Hiring and Firing: Question and Answer Book

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Summary: This might be good for large corporations
Review: I'm opening a small business and need information on hiring and managing employees. After reading this book, my knowledge of hiring employees hasn't changed much. This books focuses on the legal issues and paperwork required when dealing with employees. If you are looking for insight on how to hire good workers and how to interview people, find another book.

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Summary: Packed with issues of management responsibilities
Review: Paul Falcone's Hiring And Firing Question And Answer Book tells how best to attract, interview and select candidates for critical jobs. HR professionals in particular will find this is packed with issues of management responsibilities which carefully identifies potential problems and their solutions.

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Summary: Terrific Reference Book!
Review: Whether you're a human resources professional or an executive or manager in a company without a human resources department, you are confronted by all sorts of difficult personnel questions. Hiring and firing can be highly complicated subjects. Scary. Unless you have someone you can turn to for reliable advice.

Never fear. Paul Falcone is here! The author of "96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire" and "101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems" has authored a book that will relieve the stress in your people-management life. Falcone is Director of Employment and Development Paramount Pictures in Hollywood and teaches for UCLA. Here's a resource who knows what he's talking about.

This book is organized into two main sections: Hiring and Firing. Under the Hiring Section, you'll find chapters on the hiring process, recruitment tools, online recruiting, interviewing, and making the final selection. The Firing Section begins with a chapter answering common questions about the performance management and termination process. Next, the reader will learn about progressive discipline, terminations for cause and summary offenses, and reductions-in-force and layoffs.

Through these chapters, Falcone presents 112 vital questions . . . and answers. Each question is addressed with a basic answer, followed by a section titled "Tell Me More." What a wealth of information!

And, as if this weren't enough, the book also includes an appendix with sample policies, agreements, and letters. The comprehensiveness of this section is amazing. A glossary, resource list, and index provide even more value.

Highly recommended!