We believe in continuous growth and improvement and we love making sure that our community is always supported in that way. Therefore, we have compiled a list of 14 amazing recruitment books, which you should add to your library (if you haven’t already) in order to broaden your horizon in the world of recruitment and most importantly - keep learning and growing.
The Robot-Proof Recruiter: A Survival Guide for Recruitment and Sourcing Professionals
Recruit Rockstars: The 10 Step Playbook to Find the Winners and Ignite Your Business
Culture Driven Recruiting: There is No "Talent War" if You Eliminate the Competition
Social Media Recruitment: How to Successfully Integrate Social Media into Recruitment Strategy
Work Rules! (Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead)
Technology Made Simple for the Technical Recruiter, Second Edition: A Technical Skills Primer
Talent Without Borders: Global Talent Acquisition for Competitive Advantage
Let’s get reading!
Author: Katrina Collier
About: In The Robot-Proof Recruiter, Katrina Collier shares practical tips on how to build a personal brand, successfully approach candidates and build relationships in order to survive in a world where AI is continuously threatening recruiters and sourcers. Simple and effective the tips in The Robot-proof Recruiter are sure to improve the candidate experience you provide, and as a result - enable you to find the right people for your organization.
The book was also shortlisted for the Business Book Award in 2020 - HR & Management Category.
Author: Mark Murphy
About: In Hiring for Attitude, top leadership strategist Mark Murphy shows you:
He follows up by explaining why it is important and how to hire for attitude.
Author: Helena Nield-Dumper
About: The Mindful Recruiter includes: 27 Step-by-step practical exercises - tailor-made techniques for recruiters; exercises to increase your self-awareness and elevate your personal brand. It is a guide to steer your actions to improve your performance. Its goal is to provide you with ways to understand your mind better and therefore, enable you to excel in your workplace.
Author: Jeff Hyman
About: In Recruit Rockstars, you'll learn:
Author: Barbara Bruno
About: High-Tech High-Touch Recruiting provides recruiters with an end-to-end process for recruiting the top talent who turns into engaged employees. While emphasizing the overall importance of building "high-touch" relationship-building skills, the book outlines how these can be blended successfully with high-tech tools such as AI-powered software applications to identify a large pool of qualified job candidates. Barbara Bruno provides an outline for a 9-step telephone interview process to enable you to find the new stars of your team!
Author: Lee-Anne Edwards
About: In Culture Driver Recruiting, Lee-Anne Edwards offers the real deal on what it takes to find and hold on to your one-in-a-million talent. Within the pages of her book you’ll find answers to those hard questions, stories sure to make you gasp and giggle, a healthy heaping of guidance, sass in spades, and even a pep talk in a pinch from a bona fide expert with nearly two decades in the recruiting game.
Author: Ira S Wolfe
About: In Recruiting in the Age of Googlization, Ira S Wolfe exposes the realities of automation on the future of jobs and the rapid reconstruction of the concept of work. Wolfe illuminates how exponential change will transform or eliminate most jobs and make many business models irrelevant or unrecognizable. Wolfe's examples read like science fiction jumping off the pages of everyday reality. His forecasts and solutions are simultaneously exciting and terrifying. It is within this new business environment that organizations must learn to recruit and retain talent.