If you’re reading this you probably want to improve your knowledge in recruiting and stay on top of your game in the industry.
Books are a great way to educate yourself and get to a next level of sophistication and skill.
Hiring success comes from people like you who continuously look for better ways to get to the right talent.
This is the list of best recruiting books (details below):
- The Robot-Proof Recruiter
- Social Media Recruitment
- Full Stack Recruiter
- Talent Magnet
- The Talent War
- The Effective Hiring Manager
- The Talent Fix
- High Velocity Hiring
- High-Impact Interview Questions
- Leadership Recruiting
- The Better Allies Approach to Hiring
- Culture-Driven Recruiting
- Hire by Design
- Hiring Success
- A guide to diversity talent sourcing
- Recruit Rockstars
- High-Tech High-Touch Recruiting
- Top talent sourcing tools
- Who
- Talent Acquisition Essentials Guidebook
- How to become a technical recruiter
- The Art of the recruiter message
- Executive Recruiting For Dummies
- Recruiting Sucks… But It Doesn’t Have To
- Hiring Greatness
- Recruiting 101
- Hiring for Attitude
- Technology Made Simple for the Technical Recruiter
- Hack Recruiting
- Hiring for Diversity
- Hire Right, Fire Right
- Recruiting in the Age of Googlization
1. The Robot-Proof Recruiter
The Robot-Proof Recruiter: A Survival Guide for Recruitment and Sourcing Professionals
by Katrina Collier (Author), Shannon Pritchett (Foreword)
4.5 out of 5 stars (116 ratings)
In a world of work where recruiters are constantly hearing that their role is at risk from AI, robotics and chatbots, it has never been more important to effectively attract and recruit the right people. Leveraging the power of social media and digital sourcing strategies is only part of the solution, and simply posting a job or sending a LinkedIn InMail is no longer enough.
The Robot-Proof Recruiter shows you how to use the tools that reveal information that can be used to grab a potential candidate's attention among the overwhelming volume of material online.
2. Social Media Recruitment
Social Media Recruitment: How to Successfully Integrate Social Media into Recruitment Strategy
by Andy Headworth (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars (51 ratings)
As the recruiting landscape changes, different methods are needed to attract talent, and social media is a key channel. However, many HR and recruiting professionals are not equipped with the knowledge and understanding to create a social media recruiting strategy. Social Media Recruitment combines practical guidance with case studies and insights from industry thought leaders to provide a full understanding of what social media means for HR and recruitment and how to successfully integrate and use it.
3. Full Stack Recruiter
Full Stack Recruiter: The Ultimate Edition Paperback (2020)
by Jan Tegze (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars (150 ratings)
Are you ready to learn everything you need to know about sourcing and recruitment? Then you’ve found the right book! Whether you are already working in recruitment, new to the industry, or just hoping to begin your career as a recruiter, there are essential strategies used by successful recruiters that will help you accelerate your career. Of course, no one is born knowing these things; they come from years of experience in the field. That’s exactly what this book is: years of practical, real-world experience distilled into one comprehensive guide to succeeding in your recruiting career in the digital era.
4. Talent Magnet
Talent Magnet: How to Attract and Keep the Best People (The High Performance Series)
by Mark Miller (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars (132 ratings)
There is a long-standing truth in the world of organizations: Talent wins! But how do you attract the best people? What do they really want? Based on his rigorous and extensive research, Mark Miller learned that top performers are looking for very different things than solid contributors. In Talent Magnet, Miller uses a clever and entertaining business fable to share these findings. He tells the parallel stories of Blake Brown, a CEO struggling with winning the war for talent, and Blake's 16-year-old son, Clint, who is trying to get his first job so he can raise money to buy a well for a village in Africa.
5. The Talent War
The Talent War: How Special Operations and Great Organizations Win on Talent
by Mike Sarraille (Author), George Randle (Author), Josh Cotton (Author), Jocko Willink (Foreword)
4.7 out of 5 stars (620 ratings)
A must-read for any business leader looking to build elite teams and win on talent.
Talent is the foundation of every success story from Silicon Valley to Wall Street to Main Street, and even on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. It's the hidden asset that never shows up on the balance sheet, despite being the driver for a company's true value. And now, in this hypercompetitive business environment, the war for talent has never been more important, or more complex. Of eight hundred CEOs and six hundred C-suite executives polled in 2019, the overwhelming majority cited the ability to attract and retain top talent as their number one concern.
6. The Effective Hiring Manager
The Effective Hiring Manager Hardcover
by Mark Horstman (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars (101 ratings)
Essential hiring and team-building lessons from the #1 Podcaster in the world
The Effective Hiring Manager offers an essential guide for managers, team leaders, and HR professionals in organizations large or small. The author’s step-by-step approach makes the strategies easy to implement and help to ensure ongoing success. Hiring effectively is the single greatest long-term contribution to your organization. The only thing worse than having an open position is filling it with the wrong person. The Effective Hiring Manager offers a proven process for solving these problems and helping teams and organizations thrive.
7. The Talent Fix
The Talent Fix: A Leader’s Guide to Recruiting Great Talent Paperback
by Tim Sackett (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars (66 ratings)
Corporate talent acquisition has been failing for decades, but it doesn’t have to. There are simple fixes, organizational designs, and technology that can turn around the success of an organization’s ability to recruit almost overnight. Piece by piece and step by step, with real-world examples and stories about how innovative organizations and top talent acquisition leaders are successfully recruiting today, The Talent Fix presents a proven, practical, and scalable recruiting model for talent acquisition leaders and practitioners and shows how organizations can build and sustain a great talent acquisition function.
8. High Velocity Hiring
High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant Hardcover
by Scott Wintrip (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars (83 ratings)
Win the war for talent by building an army of ready-to-deploy candidates
An employee leaves and you post the open position. Resumes trickle in. You interview a few candidates. No one fits the bill. The next thing you know, three months have passed and that desk is still empty. Nothing drives business success like a staff of talented, productive employees. So why accept a hiring process that fails you time and time again?
9. High-Impact Interview Questions
by Victoria Hoevemeyer (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars (175 ratings)
When most prospective hires come well prepared for interview questions we all expect, how do you distinguish their answers from any other applicant? With this book by your side, you will no longer have to do your best guess work on what answers are genuine, which are rehearsed, and which will end up not reflecting the employee in the least. This invaluable resource shows you how to dig deeper using competency-based behavioral interviewing methods to uncover truly relevant and useful information.
10. Leadership Recruiting
Leadership Recruiting: Strategy, Tactics and Tools for Hiring Organizations Paperback
by Simon Mullins (Author), David Lord (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)
"Recruiting for leadership roles is probably the most important action most organizations ever take, and they are often flying blind. Simon Mullins and David Lord, two of the world's experts on this topic, offer real insights as well as a practical guide to running the leadership recruiting process."Peter Cappelli, Professor of Management, The Wharton School In business, recruiting the right leaders at the right time is the competitive advantage. Leadership Recruiting is the first authoritative guide to doing so, every step of the way, for rapidly growing small companies to Global 100 conglomerates.
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