High Velocity Hiring by Scott Wintrip is a highly recommended guide for any human resources professional tasked with new hire recruitment or hiring process. Much like his previous best-selling books, Wintrip’s High Velocity Hiring provides easy to follow instructions, practical advice, and time-tested strategies to help managers recruit the best candidates quickly and effectively.
High Velocity Hiring begins with an introduction to its main concepts: how to make strategic decisions, how to create a “people-centric” work environment, and how to maximize engagement through effective communication. Wintrip then dives right into outlining his hiring process, which begins with setting hiring criteria and using objective measures to assess each candidate.
Throughout the book, Wintrip emphasizes the importance of having an organized and defined hiring process, regularly reviewing the recruitment pipeline, and asking the right questions to analyze the candidate’s qualifications. Wintrip also provides valuable insight into how to bring candidates into the company’s culture, as well as how to ensure a smooth onboarding process.
Following step-by-step instructions, Wintrip provides additional guidance for innovation in recruitment, such as building a custom recruitment system, and advises on ways to collect data to assure maximum effectiveness in the hiring process. Wintrip also pays special attention to Amazon’s “People-Centric Workplace” concept, and examines how certain aspects of their approach could be implemented within other companies.
Finally, Wintrip shares a collection of unique strategies to address the most common roadblocks to the hiring process. By providing various solutions, Wintrip equips his readers with the right tools to make the process of high-velocity hiring run more efficiently.
Overall, Scott Wintrip’s High Velocity Hiring offers a comprehensive guide to accelerating the hiring process by introducing relevant strategies, tools, and insights. Practical and insightful, this book is an invaluable resource for any HR professional on the search for talent.
