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From September 2007! The Truth About Hiring The Best




Unemployment rates are at record lows, making it even more challenging to find the best employees. Hiring managers want new, creative ways to recruit and select top employees. Savvy managers also know they’re not just hiring for one open position—-they’re creating the future for their department and their organization.

The Truth About Hiring The Best, written by Employment Strategist Cathy Fyock, is the first easy-to-digest, practical book that dispels the myths about how to identify, recruit, and then select the best people. Cathy draws upon her experience as a recruiter, hiring manager, and employment consultant in providing “break-through a-ha’s” to help you find the best people for your organization.

Anyone who needs to make a hiring decision can benefit from this book—-from department managers, to business owners, to HR professionals. Whether you need to hire one person every five years or 500 people now, this book will help you meet your goals!

To order this product, click here: Amazon.com, or contact Cathy Fyock at cathy@cathyfyock.com, or by phone at (502) 243-2482.







Special Report--$20 plus shipping & handling
Recruiting Experienced Workers: A Guide for Employers to Attract Workers Aged 50+






Praise for Recruiting Experienced Workers
"Cathy takes the mystery out of understanding the 50+ workforce demographic and how to recruit experienced workers to an organization. This Special Report guides the reader through specific actions and decisions to prepare leaders to recruit and retain experienced workers."

--Jeff Nally, SPHR
Humana, Inc.



To order this product, contact Cathy Fyock at cathy@cathyfyock.com, or by phone at (502) 243-2482.





Hiring Source Book: A Collection of Practical Samples

Hiring Source Book: A Collection of Practical Samples

Society for Human Resource Management

You don’t have to create hiring materials from scratch . . . when this handy tool kit puts more than 60 samples of good materials and best practices at your fingertips:

  • Hiring flow charts
  • Job requisition forms
  • Application forms
  • Interview guide
  • Interview checklist
  • Reference-checking forms
  • Orientation guides
  • Illegal interview topics
  • Questions to avoid asking
  • Tips on recruiting Hispanic employees, with materials in SPANISH and English equivalents
  • CD-ROM with materials in PDF and Rich Text formats for easy customization

    "The only one-stop shopping hiring book available—great best-practice ideas, excellent sample forms, and a CD-ROM to customize forms and materials. With this book you’ll be ready for the upcoming labor shortage."

    --Sharon K. Koss, SPHR, CCP
    President
    Koss Management Consulting

    "Cathy Fyock—with great experience and skills in employment—shares best practices and tools in what is the cornerstone of HR—effective selection."

    --Mike Losey, SPHR, CAE
    Executive Consultant


    To order this product, click here: Amazon.com, or contact Cathy Fyock at cathy@cathyfyock.com, or by phone at (502) 243-2482.



    GET THE BEST: How To Recruit The People You Want

    Innovative Management Concepts

    Get the Best Get The Best is the recruiting and sourcing idea book, chock full of tips, ideas, and how-to's for finding the best employees for your organization. It provides ideas for using marketing principles in recruitment, and specific guidelines on targeting the right labor market segments creatively using non-traditional recruitment activities such as telemarketing and direct mail.

    Get The Best shows how to attract top talent, and how to:

    • Target labor market segments, including older workers, people with disabilities, women, and minorities
    • Creatively use non-traditional recruitment activities such as telemarketing, direct mail, and radio and television
    • Develop effective newspaper advertising
    • Improve staffing effectiveness by tracking recruitment data

    "If you want to survive in an increasingly competitive marketplace, this book will provide you with the recruiting strategies that your organization--no matter its size or scope--will need to succeed. You may think you’ve tried everything, but Get The Best will breathe new life into your organization’s recruiting efforts."

    --Michael Losey, SPHR
    Former President and CEO
    Society for Human Resource Management

    "Get The Best is essential for every business owner and manager concerned about attracting and hiring the right people—the best people—the first time. If your competitors use this book before you do, they’ll capture the market for the most qualified applicants. The best defense is a good offense!"

    --Roger Herman, CMC, CSP, CEO
    The Herman Group
    Author, Keeping Good People


    To order this product, contact Cathy Fyock at cathy@cathyfyock.com, or by phone at (502) 243-2482.



    UnRetirement: A Career Guide for the Retired...the Soon-to-be-Retired... the Never-Want-to-be-Retired

    AMACOM

    UnRetirement UnRetirement is the first book to offer detailed guidance for older workers on how to keep working beyond "normal" retirement age. It gives specific techniques for how to explore new options--phased retirement, new part-time options, telecommuting, creating a resume that will maximize a life of hard work, and dealing with ageism and age discrimination. It gives specific techniques for how to:

    • Stay active in your current job or create alternative positions with your employer
    • Explore phased or rehearsal retirement, new part-time options, and telecommuting
    • Re-train yourself to fill growing needs for new skills
    • Develop self-esteem and value your own experience
    • Create a resume that will maximize a life of hard work
    • Deal with ageism and age discrimination

    "Many active, young retirees need to think about and plan how to spend their bonus years--how to stay active, interested, and challenged. This book is one of the best answers to this need that I have read."

    --Art Linkletter, Author
    Old Age is Not For Sissies


    To order this product, click here: Amazon.com, or contact Cathy Fyock at cathy@cathyfyock.com, or by phone at (502) 243-2482.



    E-Learning CD-ROMs


    Looking for new ideas to help you attract top talent, reduce turnover, and improve performance in this volatile labor market? Cathy Fyock, CSP, SPHR, Employment Strategist, has joined forces with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) to offer four new e-learning products designed to help you recruit, select, and retain top talent in an aging and changing labor market.

    Each CD-ROM includes a 1-1/4 hour presentation plus corresponding visuals for high-impact learning. Each is approved by HRCI for recertification credit.

    $30 ea + $5 S&H for 1 ($35)
    $25 ea + $5 S&H for 2 ($55)
    $20 ea + $5 S&H for 3 or more ($65)

    To order this product, contact Cathy Fyock at cathy@cathyfyock.com, or by phone at (502) 243-2482.






    Listed below are the e-learning courses:



    Get the Best



    So how do you get the best, especially in a volatile labor market? What are the strategies that will be effective in sourcing, or attracting, top candidates? What can you do to recruit the best candidates for your organization? This dynamic program explores five strategies for making recruitment more effective. Sales and marketing strategies will be reviewed, and will be used to create a strong recruitment effort to attract top talent.






    Select the Best




    Selecting the right candidate, the first time, is important because it allows employers to build a strong team, reduce turnover costs, improve morale, and increase productivity. This high-impact session explores four key strategies to help select the best candidate, the first time. Ideas are offered for making difficult selection decisions by developing better questions and designing the selection process to help make the best decision.






    Keep the Best



    Never before has it been so critical to focus on strategies for keeping good employees. Yet, employers are finding that solving the issue of high turnover is no easy matter. This session explores strategies for reducing turnover, improving loyalty and morale, and creating a positive work place that will help in becoming a preferred employer.






    Find the Gold



    Finding the Gold in the Graying of America explores why older workers are an important labor market segment, and why employers will need to focus on recruiting and retaining this valuable resource in the coming years. This high-impact presentation discusses the factors making this an important market segment, and offers specific ways in which all employers need to rethink assumptions about older adults, aging, and the role of older workers in the workplace.



    What are people saying about Cathy Fyock's E-Learning products?

    "Cathy Fyock delivers a homerun with her e-Learning products! Cathy couples her HR savvy and years of experience as an Employment Strategist with her keen ability to target the needs of today’s HR professionals. Cathy covers all the basics in a passionate execution of flawless delivery. SHRM’s e-Learning students walk away with tools and tips to immediately help them on their job. Cathy is an asset to the HR Profession."

    --Tom Melanson, Manager, SHRM e-Learning


    "Your CDs are wonderful! We are going through each one with our entire management team. This process has really started some creative thinking; you are right on the money! Thanks!"

    --Lynn Ihlenburg, Director, Quality Community Services, Inc.



    Other Publications by Cathy Fyock

    Quantities are limited for these products. To order these products, contact Cathy Fyock at cathy@cathyfyock.com, or by phone at (502) 243-2482.



    AMERICA'S WORK FORCE IS COMING OF AGE: What Every Business Needs To Know To Recruit, Train, Manage, And Retain An Aging Work Force

    Lexington Books

    America's Work Force is Coming of Age America's Work Force is Coming of Age offers practical information on solutions to the issues businesses will increasingly face in employing older workers today and in the twenty-first century, and addresses such issues as how other organizations have modified their strategies to attract and retain older workers, and what steps must be taken to avoid age discrimination throughout the employment process.

    America’s Work Force is Coming of Age offers in-depth discussions and detailed guidelines for such critical areas of concern as:

    • Why supervisors must be trained to be responsive to a new set of needs
    • How other companies have modified their benefits programs to attract and retain this major segment of the work force
    • What steps you must take to avoid age discrimination throughout the employment process.

    "Must reading in this time of diminishing numbers of young workers and the need of seniors for post-retirement activity. I cannot think of any phase of the subject that has not been treated in this analysis of the problems, challenges, and opportunities for older people to join the American work force."

    --Art Linkletter
    Author, Old Age is Not for Sissies

    "Our nation cannot avoid turning to older adults to meet its labor force needs. This is the first book to spell out what businesses can do to successfully attract and retain the older worker. Excellent."

    --Jeannette Takamura, Ph.D., Director
    Executive Office on Aging, State of Hawaii


    To order this product, click here: Amazon.com, or contact Cathy Fyock at cathy@cathyfyock.com, or by phone at (502) 243-2482.



    MANAGING DIVERSITY

    Irwin Professional Publishing

    Employing People with CapabilitiesWomen in the WorkplaceCultural DiversityBridging the Age Gap










    • Employing People With Capabilities (Module I) (order from Amazon.com)
    • Women in the Workplace (Module II) (order from Amazon.com)
    • Cultural Diversity (Module III) (order from Amazon.com)
    • Bridging the Age Gap (Module IV) (order from Amazon.com)

    Now businesses can introduce the concepts of diversity with a modular training program, which includes everything needed to conduct in-house training. Leader's Guides help any trainer plan and facilitate productive training sessions, and include time-saving transparency masters and training tips and notes for using questionnaires, evaluations, and exercises. Participants' Workbooks translate complex diversity issues into clear, easy-to-apply principles for trainees, and include real-world exercises and discussion questions as well as post-session activities and evaluation forms.

    To order this product, use the links above for Amazon, or contact Cathy Fyock at cathy@cathyfyock.com, or by phone at (502) 243-2482.


    Cathy Fyock, CSP, SPHR, helps you recruit and retain employees in an aging and changing work force. She can be reached at P.O. Box 1229, Crestwood KY 40014, via email at cathy@cathyfyock.com, or by phone at (502) 243-2482.