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This chapter describes the audience and scope of this book and suggests how you can use it to recruit the best software engineers available. It explains the central themes: hiring well is a competitive advantage, treat candidates as well as you treat customers, and take an engineering approach to the recruiting and hiring process. This chapter also provides a troubleshooting table to identify the appropriate chapters for answers to the most common and easily articulated questions.

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  1. See, for example, Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (New York: FSG, 2011).

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McCuller, P. (2012). Introduction. In: How to Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4918-4_1

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