Many employers describe people as their most valuable assets. But how many of those employers invest enough time and effort to ensure they get the assets they need? To avoid the cost of hiring the wrong person, organisations need to set up a systematic process for recruitment and selection, based on assessing the role to be filled and the skills and abilities needed to fill it.

Getting the Right People is a practical guide that will help employers implement consistently high-quality human resource practices in recruitment and selection. It discusses:

• the contemporary context for recruitment and selection
• preparing for recruitment and selection
• attracting people to the organisation
• the selection process
• job interviews
• selection tests
• engaging the new employee
• assessing recruitment and selection.