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"The Career History Form gets essential information that's not included in resumes, so we only interview the best candidates."
"The Topgrading interview, using the Topgrading Interview Guide, is critical to our staffing process."
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 The Topgrading Forms and Guides are available for licensing or purchasing hard copies. New 6-month Starter Topgrading License for 30 or fewer employees, $795.00. To purchase this product call Margaret Brask at 847-265-7415 or email her at Margaret.Brask@SmartTopgrading.com. 1- to 4-Year Licensing Fees for all the forms listed below: Topgrading® Interview Guide (plus version for Sales Representative hires), Topgrading Career History Form, Self-Administered Topgrading Interview Guide, Topgrading In-Depth Reference Check Guide (plus version for Sales Representative hires), and Topgrading Interviewer Feedback Form. Licenses can be purchased for an individual department or function, or for an entire company. Not-for-profits receive a 50% discount. Topgrading® Interview Guide (formerly CIDS Interview Guide) (Product # 305) This is the world's best interview guide. Every company we know of achieving 90% success hiring and promoting people uses this guide. It's 32 pages long, and includes 11 pages of competency (behavioral) questions, used mostly for those round-robin, shorter interviews, and it has space at the end to rate candidates on up to 50 competencies. Watch our free online class: How to Use the Topgrading Interview Guide (47 minutes). Topgrading® Career History Form (Product # 309) Watch our free online class: How to Use the Topgrading Career History Form (24 minutes). Every company we know achieving 90% hiring success uses this form. Save about 15 hours screening resumes! With a stack of 200 resumes cut to 25, don't waste 25 hours prescreening them on the phone. Sure, you need a lot more information, because resumes are deceptive. The Topgrading Career History Form begins with a Truth Serum, notice that finalists will be asked to arrange reference calls with supervisors they’ve had. It works! The Form requests TOTAL compensation history, dates for ALL jobs, names of bosses in ALL jobs, boss rating of overall job performance, motivation to leave a job (quit?, terminated? "mutual"?), likes and dislikes in jobs, and 24 inches of space for a self-appraisal, and a clear statement that THOROUGH reference checking will be done. Purchase hard copy and send it via post to candidates, who can return it via post; or better yet, license it along with the other Topgrading forms and guides and you can then email it to candidates, who complete it and email it back to you, or have them fill it out at your web site. Self-Administered Topgrading® Interview Guide (Product # 311) Wow! You can crunch a four-hour Topgrading Interview down to two hours! This 12-page guide asks most of the Topgrading Interview Guide questions, permitting the interviewer to glance through the written responses and get a solid overview of patterns of successes and failures. Then, conduct a full Topgrading Interview (using the Topgrading Interview Guide) much faster. This guide can substitute for the Topgrading Career History Form when assessing internal people and external candidates (but only when jobs are scarce and candidates are willing to fill out a 12-page form). Topgrading® Reference Check Guide (Product # 308) A script that inspires references to tell you the complete truth. Topgrading® Interviewer Feedback Form (Product # 307) A comprehensive set of ratings, used by Topgrading interviewers to give each other 5 minutes of useful feedback immediately following the interview. Topgrading® Starter Kit (Product # 314) FREE COURSES! Before using these forms, we suggest you watch these invaluable free online classes: How to Use the Topgrading Interview Guide (47 minutes) and How to Use the Topgrading Career History Form (24 minutes). This set of hard copy guides and forms will help you fill one job with a high performer. It consists of: (1) Topgrading 101: Avoid Costly Mis-Hires (a 50-page overview of Topgrading best practices) (10) Topgrading Career History Forms (see description of this form above) (2) Topgrading Interview® Guides (see description of this guide below) (6) Topgrading Reference Check Guides (see description of this guide below) (2) Topgrading Interviewer Feedback Forms (see description of this form above) (1) Sample Management Coaching Report (1) Sample Candidate for Selection Report Topgrading® Starter Kit for Sales Representatives (Product # 338) FREE COURSES! Before using these forms, we suggest you watch these invaluable free online classes: How to Use the Topgrading Interview Guide (47 minutes) and How to Use the Topgrading Career History Form (24 minutes). This set of hard copy guides and forms will help you fill one job with a high performing sales rep. It consists of the same materials as product #314, tailored to hiring sales reps. Topgrading® Interview Guide for Sales Representatives (Product # 340) We've designed the Topgrading Interview Guide for Sales Representatives so that 100% of questions are just the right questions. The guide is very thorough and complete, including the competency questions (mostly to be used by round-robin interviewers) and a form at the back for rating competencies, organizing your conclusions, and deciding if this is an A player candidate. Topgrading® Reference Check Guide for Sales Representatives (Product # 345) After the interview, you, the interviewers, decide which supervisors or others you would like to talk with, and ask the CANDIDATE to arrange those calls. This Topgrading Reference Check Guide for Sales Representatives provides the script, including questions about specific sales competencies. To see a complete list of all our Topgrading Products, click here. |
