NPAG Library : Articles for Employers, Search Committees & HR Managers
(organized by topic area)

Hiring a Search Firm

• Searching for a Search Firm? Advice on How to Choose Wisely

Planning for a Search

• From Rhetoric to Practice: Recruiting Strategies to Make Diversity More Meaningful in your Organization

• The Search Plan: Your Road Map to the Candidate Pool

• Looking for Talent? Avoid These Common Pitfalls!

• Develop Your Own Unbundled Search Budget

Launching a Search

• Using Search as a Tool to Energize, Excite and Engage Your Board and Staff

• Search Committees 101: Getting Started

• Building a Better Search Committee

Networking & Outreach

• How to Write an Effective Position Description

• Building a Strong Candidate Pool Through Strategic and Effective Outreach

• Taming the Paper Tiger: Sorting Resumes and Prioritizing Candidates

Assessing & Interviewing

• First Impressions: Suspending Judgment for Smarter Hiring

• A Guideline for Interviewing: Getting to Know Candidates

Developing Candidates

• Hiring from the Corporate Sector

• Need for Speed

Reference Checking

• Hiring a Track Record: More Informative Reference Checks

• Reference Checks: Questions to Ask