The Talent Edge. (Book Watch).

By David S. Cohen

John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd.

22 Worcester Road Etobicoke, ON M9W 1L1

ISBN: 0-471-64643-1

$41.95 (Cloth, 288 pages)

Every hiring manager knows that the traditional hiring and interviewing process is a poor tool for predicting organizational fit and future on-the-job success. Behavioural interviewing can improve your chances of picking the right candidate two to five times over traditional processes. It focuses on how the candidate works rather than on skills, qualifications, and impressions.

The Talent Edge shows how you can develop a concrete understanding of what your own top performers do differently than the majority of their peers, and how to translate that knowledge into a better hiring system. While using case studies from organizations that have successfully transformed their hiring practices, the book articulates the business case for a Behavioural Interviewing system, and provides a roadmap for implementing it.