PATHWAYS TO PRIVATE EQUITY THE RIGHT HIRE
The Right Hire (newly revised)
BY PATRICK B. ROPELLA
In most organizations, making the right hire means the difference between success and failure.
In health care, it means the difference between life and death.
The Right Hire was written examining the staffing process of Prestige Medical Center, a fictitious hospital system, and is referenced as a continuous theme throughout this book. If the right hire has great value in a hospital system, where hiring the right person (or the wrong person for that matter) can mean the difference between life and death, how valuable is the right or wrong hire in your own organization? With this in mind, Prestige Medical Center could just as easily have been any type of organization imaginable —including your own organization.
At the Ropella Group, we know from over 35 years of experience working repeatedly with many of the world’s largest chemical, high technology, consumer product, and energy and health care organizations that the SMART Talent Management strategies outlined in this book can cross all boundaries. Regardless of what industry, product, market, or organization you work in, where you are located globally, or what functional roles you focus on hiring for, this book will prove to be of value for you.
What matters is that you study the strategies of SMART Talent Management and implement the tactics, practices, forms, and tools of the SMART Search System®.
The Right Hire: How to Master the Art of SMART Talent Management helps you recruit great people and keep them loyal to the organization. Readers will understand, assimilate, and execute today’s best processes, programs, and practices for sourcing and marketing to potential candidates, assessing and recruiting top talent, retaining and training employees, and transforming your organization for the better (See where the “SMART” comes from?).
The Right Hire will dramatically improve your ability to get the right people in place — people who are
well-qualified, high-performing, and a perfect fit for your management style, behavioral standards, and culture.
Patrick, It was nice seeing you at this year’s Soap & Detergent Association annual meeting. I look forward to sharing the Right Hire with my leadership team. Thanks again to a valued partner and Leader.
Bob McDonald
CEO
Procter & Gamble
Endorsed by Experts
“The SMART Search System as presented in The Right Hire, is one of the most advanced Executive Search Placement processes, I have ever seen. The supporting ROI Calculators prove how extremely valuable “quality hiring“ that is delivered fast – can really be. Especially when hiring A-Players and Transformational Leaders. If I were seriously committed to coming out of retirement to grow another search firm, Ropella would be a firm I would be proud to add my name to.”
Jeff Christian
Founder & Chairman of the Executive Search Firm Christian & Timbers & the Venture Fund CT Access Ventures
“The Right Hire offers a great perspective on a critical topic! Using the principles and practices set forth in The Right Hire will mean the difference between success and failure.”
Marshall Goldsmith
Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of
The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.
““Physician heal thyself.” This biblical mandate was never more true than today. The biggest healthcare initiative in our country’s history is underway, but it is woefully mismanaged on many levels. Patrick Ropella’s current book, The Right Hire gives us proven principles and focused strategies to identify, attract, motivate and measure talent in any field, but especially where it is needed most – the muscle-bound world of managing the deliverance and effectiveness of healthcare and wellness. If you need relief fast, read and put into practice what’s in this book.”
Gerry Roche
SR. Chairman, Heidrick & Struggles
“People interviewing have choices, and The Right Hire presents the right things to do not only to attract the top talent, but also to assess for culture fit, personal characteristics, and experiences and credentials that will fit with your opportunity. It gives the reader the needed tools to attract, screen, assess, offer, and successfully integrate and retain top talent. With the growing need for companies to hire the very best talent available, The Right Hire is a must-read.”
Steve Watson
International Chairman – Stanton Chase
“Patrick, Thank you for all that you and Ropella do for Dow. The processes and systems you have applied (from The Right Hire) while working with Dow have proved very valuable over many years of service.”
Andrew Liveris
Chairman and CEO, The Dow Chemical Company
“With over 30 years of experience in C-suite executive recruiting across industries, I would recommend this book to any organization serious about finding and hiring the best talent in the market. The Right Hire presents penetrating insights into the recruiting process along with practical tools to drive recruiting to the next level to build the best team in the business, whatever your business may be.”
David Hoffmann
Founder, Chairman, and CEO of DHR International, a Top 5 retained executive search firm
“Pat has crafted a magnificent and powerful approach to the #1 challenge of any progressive, growth-oriented business: attracting, selecting, and on-boarding top talent. His strategy, tactics, and tools brilliantly guide us on the journey to finding and retaining today’s best people. I only wish he’d written this 25 years ago when I began my career – it would have saved me hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars in my recruiting efforts and mistakes.”
Dr. Jim Harris
Co-Author, Finding and Keeping Great Employees, a Fortune magazine Best Business Book, To a Higher Level
“Pretty well every successful business leader speaks to the value of the human capital in their organizations. It is startling then that there has never been a truly comprehensive business book on how to go about the process of hiring. Pat Ropella is filling a big void with The Right Hire – a must have handbook for effective hiring”
Sylvia MacArthur
President – IRC Global Executive Search Partners
“Patrick Ropella’s The Right Hire provides, for an extremely sensitive subject and potentially costly area of corporate life, a light, easy-to-understand, and hugely helpful system for how to do it right the first time. This book should be the standard curriculum for all managers and executive committees.”
Darrell W. Gurney
Founder of CareerGuy.com, author of Headhunters Revealed! Career Secrets for Choosing and Using Professional Recruiters and Never Apply for a Job Again! Break the Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest
“Provocative. Practical. Pragmatic. Ropella spells out in a compelling way the dynamics of one of the most critical decisions any organization makes: making the right hire. This book should be required reading for all HR professionals, search consultants, and anyone involved in hiring for that matter.”
Rick Frishman
Founder, Planned Television Arts
Publisher, Morgan James Publishing
“Too often making the right hire is seen as a matter of luck. It should not be.
Follow the steps in this book and it will improve your success rate dramatically.”
Yves Lermusi
CEO, Checkster
“People are the source of every organization’s competitive advantage and Patrick has given us a proven path to finding and keeping the right people that will ensure our success. This engaging book will convince you that the most important strategic decisions you will ever make are the people you hire. Read it – absorb it – do it!”
Pam Bilbrey
Co-Author, Ordinary Greatness, Patrick Lencioni Consultant
“Patrick possess an extraordinary ability to bring structure and systems to concepts. This is exactly what he has done in this book by providing a blueprint for any talent acquisition team. People are the most precious resource of any organization. The Right Hire provides a system that will maximize any team’s ability to not only identify and screen the ideal talent but also to attract and retain them. There are immediately implementable best practices as well as a clear and easy to follow system to win in the ongoing marketplace battle for the best and brightest!”
Jeff Kaye
CEO Next Level Exchange & Kaye/Bassman International
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