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The Hiring and Firing Question and Answer Book
By: Falcone, Paul

Книга для ознакомления, полезная и топ - менеджерам, и юристам в крупных фирмах, и устраивающимся на работу.

Getting the best employees on board and weeding out the worst--without getting slapped with expensive lawsuits--are two of the most crucial and difficult jobs of human resources professionals and general managers.

Now there's quick, reliable information on how to do it right. Written by employment expert Paul Falcone, The Hiring and Firing Question and Answer Book contains over 100 commonly asked questions ranging from basic to sophisticated, including:

Does my company need an Affirmative Action plan?
Why should I conduct an exit interview?
How do I find the best Web sites for recruiting employees?
How do I protect my company from negligent hiring claims?
How do I terminate a long-term employee with a history of positive performance evaluations?

Each question is followed by a short answer and a longer "Tell Me More" section, making the book perfect both as a concise overview and as a practical reference.

Buchan The 39 steps
Oxford Bookworms Level 4

Известные книга, радиопостановка и фильм. В данном случае – для уровня intermediate.

Oxford University Press
Intermediate

The perfect combination of fine writing and suspense-filled plot makes Buchan’s the Thirty-Nine Steps an engaging novel of intrigue, which was adapted to the screen by Hitchcock in 1935. Written in 1915, we follow protagonist Richard Hannay through England and the lowlands of Scotland as he eludes spies and keeps Europe from war.