Ask the Headhunter
Description
This guide to job hunting teaches readers: how to become a powerful candidate by looking beyond the job description; how to use “the four questions” to distinguish a right interview from a wrong one; how trying to get a job can land you in the wrong job.
Review
This is a great book which turns the arguably “broken” CV- and HR Dept-driven recruitment industry on its head. Even though it is aimed mainly at North American, high-tech job-hunters, I have found it is just as useful when seeking the right people to work or partner with, or for quoting/bidding for consulting projects.
The four basic questions that need to be answered, and which the book is built around, are just as important whichever direction you are coming from. Once again, a book to read through once and then refer back to, often, and never to forget when quoting for anything, or interviewing anyone. The advice given is real and proven, and comes from the real world of the successful Head-Hunter, not from the “other planet” of the HR Department.
Recommendation provided by:
Mike Scase, Innotec Innovation, IPR & Technology Transfer in Microelectronics, Semiconductor IP, Systems-on-Chip, Embedded Systems, Software & EDA.
Book details
ISBN: 978-1857881905
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Posted on: September 30, 2009
Theme list: People management,
