The Hiring Handbook: A Toolkit for Recruitment, Assessment, and Selection Success - Paperback

by Kasey Harboe Guentert (Author), Mollie Berke (Author)

How can you consistently hire the right people?

The Hiring Handbook by Kasey Harboe Guentert and Mollie Berke is a practical, evidence-based guide for managers, HR leads and departmental heads who want to improve hiring outcomes, strengthen interview design and make data-backed decisions.

Written by hiring experts with experience at Korn Ferry, Airbnb and Meta, this toolkit takes you step-by-step through defining job requirements, creating structured interviews and evaluating candidates with objectivity. It focuses on the strategies mid-career professionals need to build teams that deliver measurable results.

You'll learn how to:
- Pinpoint essential skills and attributes through job analysis
- Write compelling job descriptions that attract top candidates
- Design structured interviews that produce fair, consistent results
- Create predictive interview questions and minimize bias with data-driven evaluation

Packed with practical tools, real-world examples and proven frameworks, The Hiring Handbook equips you to make confident, informed decisions that strengthen performance and reduce costly hiring mistakes.

Themes include: hiring strategy, structured interviews, candidate assessment, bias reduction, data-driven recruitment

Author Biography

Kasey Harboe Guentert is a consultant with APTMetrics, a human resources consultancy specializing in talent management solutions. Prior to this she was Head of Global Assessment, Selection and Measurement at Airbnb and Global Talent Selection Manager at Meta. She is based in San Francisco, California.

Mollie Berke is an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist who specializes in leadership assessment and development. She is currently a Managing Director at Modern Executive Solutions. Prior, she was Global Talent Assessment Partner at Meta and Leadership Assessment Consultant at Korn Ferry. She is based in Jacksonville, Florida.