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If your gut instinct is strong and has never failed you yet…
…then consider that this time it easily could. Your “good feeling” could turn out to be a very bad
mistake.

“The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.”

Sir Walter Gilbey – English merchant and philanthropist

Learn more about Attracts top talent

Adler, L. (2007). Hire with your head: Using performance-based hiring to build great teams (3rd ed.).
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
The Best Practice Institute, Goldsmith, M., & Carter, L. (Eds.). (2010). Best practices in talent
management: How the world’s leading corporations manage, develop, and retain top talent. San
Francisco, CA: Pfeiffer.
Davila, L., & King, M. (2007). Perfect phrases for perfect hiring: Hundreds of ready-to-use phrases for
interviewing and hiring the best employees every time. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Hallenbeck, G. S., Jr., & Eichinger, R. W. (2006). Interviewing right: How science can sharpen your
interviewing accuracy. Minneapolis, MN: Lominger International: A Korn Ferry Company.
Lawler, E. E., III. (2008). Talent: Making people your competitive advantage. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-
Bass.

Deep dive learning resource links

Barker, E. (2011, July 19). Scientific, time-tested methods for hiring the best people. Business Insider.
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Cohan, P. S. (2013, September 25). Your secret to hiring a kick-ass team. Entrepreneur. Retrieved from
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/228564#

Entrepreneur. (n.d.). How to recruit top talent. Entrepreneur. Retrieved from
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Haun, L. (2013, January 14). Don’t hire the perfect candidate. Harvard Business Review Blog Network.
Retrieved from http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/01/dont-hire-the-perfect-candidat/

James, G. (2013, October 22). Hiring: 6 Secrets to attracting top talent. Inc. Retrieved from
http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/6-secrets-for-hiring-great-people.html

Kerpen, C. (2013, February 25). Why “hire slow, fire fast” is a better idea than you think. Fast Company.
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Krakovsky, M. (2007, March/April). The effort effect. Stanford Magazine. Retrieved from
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