Hiring Handbook: A Toolkit for Recruitment

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.

Youll 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