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Talent Makers: How the Best Organizations Win through Structured and Inclusive Hiring Audio CD – June 15, 2021

by Daniel Chait (Author), Jon Stross (Author)
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Talent Makers: How the Best Organizations Win through Structured and Inclusive Hiring is essential listening for every leader who knows that hiring is crucial to their organization and wants to compete for top talent, diversify their organization, and build winning teams. Daniel Chait and Jon Stross, cofounders of Greenhouse Software, Inc., provide listeners with a comprehensive and proven framework to improve hiring quickly, substantially, and measurably.

Talent Makers will provide a step-by-step plan and actionable advice to help leaders assess their talent practice (or lack thereof) and transform hiring into a measurable competitive advantage. Listeners will understand and employ: a proven system and principles for hiring used by the world's best companies; hiring practices that remove bias and result in more diverse teams; an assessment of their hiring practice using the Hiring Maturity model; and measurement of employee lifetime value in quantifiable terms, and how to increase that value through hiring.

The Talent Makers methodology is the result of the authors' experience and the ideas and stories from their community of more than 4,000 organizations. This is the book that CEOs, hiring managers, talent practitioners, and human resources leaders must have to transform their hiring and propel their organization to new heights.
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  1. Print length
    1 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Ascent Audio and Blackstone Publishing
  4. Publication date
    June 15, 2021
  5. ISBN-13
    979-8200865697
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09WWXKSW9
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ascent Audio and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition (June 15, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Audio CD ‏ : ‎ 1 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8200865697
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  1. Daniel Chait

    Daniel Chait

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    Daniel Chait co-founded Greenhouse in 2012. Greenhouse is the hiring software company that helps businesses become great at hiring through our powerful approach, complete suite of software and services, and large partner ecosystem – so businesses can hire for what’s next.

    Daniel has been an entrepreneur most of his career. Prior to Greenhouse, he co-founded Lab49, a global firm providing technology consulting solutions for the world's leading investment banks. Through Daniel’s first hand experience as an entrepreneur he has seen how valuable hiring and talent are to building world class teams.

    A proud graduate of the University of Michigan, Daniel has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree in Computer Engineering (#GoBlue!).

    Outside of work, Daniel’s personal interests include camping and the outdoors, cooking, and most of all, being a dad. Daniel lives in the Northeast with his wife and son, where they balance being a two-CEO household.

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhchait

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhchait/

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  2. Jon Stross

    Jon Stross

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    Jon drives the vision and strategy of the Greenhouse product, and works closely with customers in their journey to move up the Hiring Maturity curve.

    Jon’s roots in Product go back more than 20 years. At BabyCenter, he led and championed what became the leading site for new and expecting parents. (Jon admits that at the time he had never even changed a baby’s diaper before!) As General Manager of International at BabyCenter.com, now a Johnson & Johnson company, Jon steered its growth from a US business with a small UK site, to a global business reaching tens of millions of unique visitors per month. Jon was also a member of the founding team at Merced Systems, an enterprise performance management software company.

    Jon graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Political Science. Jon lives in New York with his wife and daughter. In his free time, you can find him doing whatever his daughter tells him to do.

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LM16
5.0 out of 5 stars Good insights which are practical to apply.
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2022
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I've been a Greenhouse user for the past 5 years. Its a system that enforces the right recruiting principles. The book is a great supplement. Helped me approach my role in a different way. Don't just read the book but study it! It will pay off in your career.
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George
5.0 out of 5 stars Talent Makers Turns the Art of Great Hiring Into Science that Scales
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2021
Most executives describe how they built their best teams they've worked with like it was putting "lightning in a bottle." A moment where everything clicked, and they got it right—a combination of luck, art, and magic. Daniel Chait and Jon Stross have been studying what makes some hiring great and some not so much. They've done it across thousands of companies for years and have amassed an incredible set of data to reinforce the approaches they spelled out in this book. Talent Makers is a must-read for any leader that wants to stop hoping they get hiring right and start getting it right at scale.
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Mike
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Read! A must get if you are serious about building next generation talent and teams.
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2022
I really enjoyed this book. It contains a multitude of great insights about how to build next generation teams through a series of important lessons on how to be truly great at recruiting. Includes great coverage of the importance of candidate experience as well as how to build inclusive teams. Overall a must-read if you are in the business of hiring and building great teams.
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Drake Patterson
5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful and well written
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2021
This book illustrates exactly why hiring is so critical, and how precisely to execute on best practices to reach a point where recruiting, hiring, and retaining top talent becomes a competitive advantage for any sized business.
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Will Szal
1.0 out of 5 stars Unless You're A Big Failing Corporation, This Book Won't Help You
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2022
I've been thinking a lot about hiring lately. In particular, I've been wondering: 1) how do you hire people into an industry that didn't formerly exist (so they can't have a "proven track record"), and 2) how do you "hire" people in the context of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, where it's no longer really hiring?

I found out about this book because I have considered using Greenhouse as a hiring platform. So far I've used Workable, which is fine, but not great. I was actually quite impressed with the Greenhouse demo. That said, after reading this book, I feel less impressed.

This is a book for big corporations that haven't thought much about hiring. Are you an entrepreneur thinking about how to get hiring right from the beginning? This book won't be much help for you? Are you in the Web3 space? Also won't be that useful. Do you run a grassroots non-profit? Look somewhere else.

The authors of this book outline a hiring process that they've developed that works well when you're hiring many people into the same role over time—like employees at Whole Foods for example. There's cheese, there's produce, there's bulk goods; but needs don't really change from hire to hire or store to store.

This book teaches you a way of hiring, rather than showing you how you might think about hiring in-general. It is not a guide to developing your own hiring process.

My second big issue with this book is that the title is entirely misleading. What does the term "talent maker" mean to you? It speaks of a developmental process. People join your organization and grow, develop, mature, evolve. What management and leadership styles are conducive to working with anyone (not just "A players"), in a way that supports their development? Well, turns out this book spends no time discussing this subject, even though it is the title of the book. This book is much more about "talent finding" than talent making.

Lastly, the book is written by two middle-aged white men. The subtitle talks about "inclusivity," and the book discusses Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion a bit. That said, it is just a surface-level treatment of the subject. If they were serious about the topic, they would have brought in a co-author with an identity that brings them closer to these issues.
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Business Owner
5.0 out of 5 stars Great recruiting handbook
Reviewed in Germany on June 25, 2024
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Loved the book: describes several concepts to build a people-centric company. And make sure to maximize probability that my hires turn out well. Thanks!
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