Brown, a consultant in the recruitment industry, offers a guide for students and line managers, human resources practitioners, owner managers, internal recruiters, and others to selecting, assessing, and hiring employees. She covers the entire process and considers four interdependent elements: recruitment and assessment, engagement, and retention. She first discusses the context, including what it takes to be successful, the costs of choosing the wrong people, and ways to create a good work environment, then each stage of the process, including developing a strategy, attracting talent, relationship building for long-term hiring, assessing and selecting candidates, and designing the employment contract. Case studies are included. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)