Fire Your Hiring Habits: Building an Environment That Attracts Top Talent in Today's Workforce - Hardcover

by John W. Mitchell (Author)

The workforce has changed. Have your hiring habits kept up?

In Fire Your Hiring Habits, Dr. John W. Mitchell--President and CEO of the Global Electronics Association--exposes the flaws in today's hiring and retention practices and offers a bold, actionable roadmap for building a resilient and adaptive workforce for 2025 and beyond.

Whether you're in the C-suite, HR, or leading a team in any industry, this book is your call to abandon outdated systems and start transforming your talent ecosystem. Drawing from global research, post-pandemic workplace insights and his deep understanding of workforce dynamics, Mitchell delivers a human-centered playbook for building teams that thrive amid constant change.

Inside, you'll discover how to:

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  Recruit smarter, not harder, with modern, people-first strategies
  
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  Design onboarding that actually improves time to productivity from months to weeks
  
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  Implement structured upskilling roadmaps that lead to various career paths
  
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  Cultivate an inclusive, collaborative culture that drives innovation and loyalty
  
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  Let go of old habits and embrace workforce transformation with confidence
  
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  Use real-life case studies--including how the Global Electronics Association leads the global electronics industry in workforce training--to bring these strategies to life
  

From navigating hybrid work to return-to-office to company culture, Fire Your Hiring Habits is a guide to succeeding in a workplace that's perpetually evolving.

Perfect for:

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  Business leaders seeking to future-proof their workforce while managing multi-generations
  
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  HR professionals implementing strategic, human-centered hiring tools
  
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  Managers building more engaged and resilient teams amid talent mobility and turnover
  
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  Anyone tired of short-term fixes and seeking real change
  

If you're ready to transform your hiring and development to your competitive advantage, Fire Your Hiring Habits will show you how.

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IT'S TIME TO FIRE YOUR HIRING HABITS!
Learn how to hire, develop, and retain talent to lead your workforce into the future (and the future is now).

It's time to get rid of your same old recruiting methods. Fire Your Hiring Habits -- and fire up your modern workforce. John W. Mitchell, President and CEO of the global electronics industry's trade organization, IPC, offers innovative, thought-provoking insights into the today's workforce from operators on up to the C - Suite. From utilizing LinkedIn to corporate culture and changes in the way (and where) we work, he challenges readers to rethink the old ways of finding, hiring, and retaining talent. Fire Your Hiring Habits will walk you through cutting-edge thinking in the areas of recruiting, onboarding, talent pipelines, diversity, pathways and upskilling, corporate culture, education and certifications, and more.

The book includes real-life examples culled from Mitchell's global experiences, rich stories of changes in the workplace, and the most recent research in the field of human resources, employment, and diversity and corporate culture. Fire Your Hiring Habits challenges readers to rethink the way recruitment and retention has always been done to boldly consider a world changing the way we think about and approach work and the workplace.

Author Biography

JOHN W. MITCHELL, President and CEO of the global electronics industry's trade organization, IPC, began his engineering career at General Electric Aerospace before moving into leadership positions at Alpine Electronics and Bose. Just prior to joining IPC, he served as the CEO of Golden Key International Honour Society, the world's premier collegiate honor society, with more than 2 million members from more than 190 nations.

Dr. Mitchell's academic credentials include a doctorate in higher education management from University of Georgia's Institute of Higher Education, a Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University, and a Bachelor of Science in electrical and computer engineering from Brigham Young University. In addition to his academic credentials, Dr. Mitchell holds a patent in GPS navigation systems.