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Lou Adler - The Adler Group

The Most Important Interview Question of All Time

Total Picture Radio Interviews a Recruiting Industry Legend - Lou Adler

Lou Adler

According to our guest, Lou Adler, "If you want some quick insight into a candidate's technical competency, motivation level, and team leadership skills, start by asking this two-part question: 'Of all of the things you've accomplished in your career, what stands out as most significant? Now could you go ahead and tell me all about it?' Getting the correct answer to this question can tell you 65 percent to 75 percent of everything you need to make an accurate hiring decision."

This guy should know the answer to this - and about any question you might have about the hiring process. Adler is a noted recruiting industry expert, national speaker, and columnist for a number of major recruiting Internet sites including HR.com, ERE.net, Kennedy Information, Workforce magazine, and AIRS. His Amazon best-seller Hire With Your Head (John Wiley & Sons) started the performance-based hiring and selection movement. Peter Clayton was able to track down Lou at the Kennedy Information 2007 Conference and Expo, to ask some questions of our own!

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Lou Adler is the president of The Adler Group. His Amazon best-seller Hire With Your Head (John Wiley & Sons) started the performance-based hiring and selection movement. This was followed-up with the award-winning Nightingale Conant audio tape program, POWER Hiring: How to Find, Assess, Hire and Keep Great Talent . Adler is a noted recruiting industry expert, national speaker, and columnist for a number of major recruiting Internet sites including HR.com, ERExchange.com, Kennedy Information, Workforce magazine, and AIRS. Adler is a veteran recruiter and founder of CJA Executive Search. Adlerâ€™s early industry career included general management positions with the Allen Group, as well as senior-level financial management positions with Rockwell International's Automotive and Consumer Electronics groups. Adler holds an MBA from UCLA and a B.S. in Engineering from Clarkson University, New York.

About the Adler Group

The Adler Group helps companies around the world make hiring top talent a systematic business process. As the originators of Performance-based Hiring we are able to offer a full range of training and consulting services for recruiters and hiring managers. For those critical and hard-to-fill executive positions we also provide a unique executive search capability.

Our client base includes Fortune 500 clients like Yahoo!, Wells Fargo, and AIG as well as diverse organizations like the YMCA, Broadcom, HealthEast Care Systems, Lloyd's of London, and Red Bull. The Adler Group is an acknowledged leader in sourcing strategy development, recruiting and hiring process reengineering, and recruitment training. Click on the links below to find out how our unique programs can help your company hire more top people.

Training Programs
    * Recruiter Boot Camp Online. In this program corporate recruiters learn the secrets of finding and hiring top passive candidates.

    * Hiring Manager Training. Hiring managers play a critical role in interviewing and recruiting top talent and need to be well-versed in Performance-based Hiring. This is the first course that combines critical recruiting and interviewing skills into one seamless program.

Consulting Services
    * Sourcing Strategy Development. Sourcing the best starts with a comprehensive market-driven strategy. If you're not seeing enough top people you're probably not sourcing in the sweet spot.
    * Recruiting Process Reengineering. We created Performance-based Hiring to be the "operating system" for hiring top talent. By aligning every aspect of your recruiting, interviewing and hiring processes around this standard, hiring top people can become a predictable and consistent process.
    * Technology Integration. We'll show you how to improve the performance of all aspects of your investment in technology. Your technology should help you hire more top people, not just manage data more efficiently.
    * Custom Interview Guides. Adding structure and control around your high volume hiring efforts increases hiring accuracy and reduces common mistakes. Our performance-based interview guides can quickly put you on the right path with minimal training.