Turn Every Candidate Into a Raving Fan – The Ultimate Field Manual for Hiring Success
Hiring doesn’t have to be hard. Creating a WOW experience for candidates and new starters shouldn’t be rare.
I've had some awful interview and induction experiences hence I swore, when I became a manager and leader, I wouldn't put others through this. This book is the outcome of building WOW hiring and onboarding experiences.
You see, most companies fail to impress candidates. They lose top talent, damage their reputation, and struggle to build high-performing teams.
The Join our Company book changes all that – showing you how to attract, hire, and onboard technical talent with care, clarity, and impact.
Why This Book Will Change How You Hire
- Stop losing great candidates to your competition
- Learn to craft job adverts that truly attract the right talent
- Conduct interviews that uncover top performers
- Onboard new starters so they feel valued even before day one
This book is a field manual that gives managers and HR professionals practical tools, checklists, and frameworks to deliver exceptional experiences, every time.
Inside, You’ll Discover
- Rethinking Hiring: How assumptions and the wrong approach hold you back
- The Hiring Plan: Identify problems and opportunities before you hire
- Sourcing Talent: Attract the right candidates effortlessly
- Job Adverts That Work: Communicate your company’s story and value
- Interviewing Made Easy: Phone and face-to-face methods that reveal true potential
- Designing a WOW Service: Transform every touchpoint into a positive experience
- Onboarding that Sticks: Ensure new hires feel valued, capable, and inspired
- Flow & Process: Bring everything together into a seamless hiring journey
Plus practical examples and a sample onboarding plan.
👉 You can see the sample onboarding and induction plan here, on this Trello board.
Who Will Benefit From This Book
- Managers responsible for hiring and team growth
- HR Professionals who want to attract, retain, and engage top talent
- Business Leaders aiming to build a strong employer brand
If you want to hire technical talent smarter, faster, and more effectively, this book is your guide.
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Stop delivering WTF experiences. Start delivering WOW experiences that impress, engage, and retain the best talent.

Chapters
Here’s what’s in the book:
- The other way will also work
- Assumptions
- The structure of this book
- You have a choice
- The Hiring Plan – what problems or opportunities exist?
- Effective Employees
- Sourcing – attracting talent
- Balance Benefits
- Effective Job Adverts
- Use Agencies
- Hire Alone
- Hiring – flowing people through your process
- Staple yourself to a candidate
- Design a WOW service
- How to conduct a good phone interview
- Face to Face Interviewing
- Onboarding
- WTF
- MEH
- WOW
- A sample Onboarding process
- Some Considerations
- The Flow
- Bringing it all together
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