Ebook: Topgrading : the proven hiring and promoting method that turbocharges company performance

Topgrading will make your company more successful -- Topgrading basics -- All about A players -- 12 Topgrading steps to hiring 90% high performers. Hiring step #1 : measure your baseline success hiring and promoting people and your costs of mis-hires ; Hiring step #2 : create a clear job scorecard (not a vague job description) ; Hiring step #3 : recruit from your networks ; Hiring step #4 : screen candidates with the Topgrading career history form and Topgrading snapshot ; Hiring step #5 : conduct telephone screening interviews ; Hiring step #6 : conduct competency interviews ; Hiring step #7 : conduct tandem Topgrading interviews ; Hiring step #8 : interviewers give each other feedback ; Hiring step #9 : write a (draft) executive summary ; Hiring step #10 : conduct candidate-arranged reference calls ; Hiring step #11 : coach your newly hired A player ; Hiring step #12 : annually measure your Topgrading success -- Advanced interviewing techniques --Topgrading innovations : case studies -- The art of Topgrading -- Appendix A. Sample job scorecard -- Appendix B. Topgrading snapshots -- Appendix C. Topgrading vision -- Appendix D. Topgrading cost of mis-hires form -- Appendix E. Starter Topgrading interview guide -- Appendix F. Short case studies -- Appendix G. Sample executive summary and individual development plan -- Appendix H. Topgrading resources