DragonRising Publishing

  In The Perfect Fit, Ed Grimshaw posits a more scientific approach aimed at managers, professional recruiters and even job candidates themselves.  

Almost all of us have hired people and in so doing have achieved a wide variety of successes and failures. Some of those we helped choose will have gone on to dazzling careers while others will have been disappointments. How did we make selection decisions? On a cocktail of CV, references, word of mouth, interview and a large shot of hunch and instinct of course.

In The Perfect Fit, Ed Grimshaw posits a more scientific approach aimed at managers, professional recruiters and even job candidates themselves. Grimshaw is realistic... Read Full Review

CIO - Business Technology Leadership - www.CIO.co.uk

  NLP can help employers develop a balanced and thorough approach to recruitment with huge cost advantages.  

As a form of applied psychology, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) aims to narrow the gap between what we say and how we behave. From that perspective, the author argues, it also makes a useful recruitment tool, ensuring that candidates can be selected on aptitude, with their behaviour patterns and communication skills as the deciders.

According to Grimshaw, this technique can help employers develop a balanced and thorough approach to recruitment with huge cost advantages. These are mostly gained from avoiding the awkward expenses that come... Read Full Review

Accounting Technician Magazine, The Association Of Accounting Technicians

  This book details the recruitment process thoroughly  

When I was first required to recruit staff, I had to learn the ropes myself without external support. The author of this book costs recruiting at £20K a time. The cost of getting the wrong person can be very high.

This book details the recruitment process thoroughly. There are exercises to do (many based on NLP) that give important insites into why we are recruiting and who we want - for strategic fit with the company as well as filling a specific role. The book is well written, with a detailed summary at the end of each chapter for review.... Read Full Review

Robert, London

  It can be difficult to determine if that right person is sitting across the desk from you unless you have the extensive knowledge and experience of Mr. Grimshaw. If you don’t have it now, you can get it. Read this book and glean the knowledge.  

I started working when I was twelve years old. I have been working ever since — 45 years. What I want to know is where has this book been for those 45 years?

I am not an interviewer, nor have I ever been a manager, but the knowledge in these pages could have helped me a great deal in my job searches.

While I have known for a long time that companies, like countries, have a culture all their own, I did not know how to determine if I would fit into that culture.

I never asked the correct questions that would have led me to... Read Full Review

Sheryl Tongue, Owner, Stone Hill Graphics, Colorado, US

  A practical means to a very important end!  

Finding the right person for the job has to date largely been more a matter of chance than of good judgement.

But, in these challenging times, businesses that hope to survive and prosper need rely on much more than pure luck.

Ed Grimshaw's innovative book offers not just hope, but also the practical means to a very important end.

Writing from a position of in-depth practical experience, this manual demonstrates that the skill-sets required to guarantee a "perfect fit" are learnable, and once learned, take the guesswork out of successful recruitment and employment.

Garner Thomson, Author, Magic in Practice