Official Recruitment Guide

James Eden

Published: 2012

Format: Hardback

Pages: 524

ISBN: 9780982563786

RRP: £14.99

Finding a job that is the perfect fit and colleagues with whom we get along is incredibly important, and we all have our fair share of horror stories: nightmare bosses, irascible workmates, pokey office blocks. However, what about things from the employer’s point of view? It is just as important to hire a suitable employee as it is to take up a suitable job. What happens when things go wrong? When employees are too inexperienced, too old, too young, even too drunk to do their jobs properly? Official Recruitment Guide is a collection of short stories based on just such events. Written from the point of view of the employer, some are funny, some sad and some thought provoking. All of them are based on true events and all offer advice, in the form of principles, warnings and an index for reference, to tackle what can be a baffling world.

During his career, James Eden has been responsible for hiring more than 2000 employees around the world, covering the U.S., Europe, the Near East and Asia. From accountants to company presidents he has hired, James has developed his understanding of the business world through over 30 years of interaction with his employees. Now retired, he devotes much of his time to writing.