Top Recruiting books curated by experts

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Fundamentals of Recruiting

Understanding the concepts of Recruiting starts with understanding the fundamentals. On your way to mastery, it's crucial for you to understand how certain concepts were derived, and why things work like they do. Starting with these resources is the best way to do so.

Talent Force: New Manifesto For The Human Side Of Business

Talent Force: New Manifesto For The Human Side Of Business

Only one thing really differentiates your business from your competitor: your people. Do you have the right talent in the right place at the right time? It's no longer enough to have a 'workforce': you need a high-impact Talent Force

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Leadership Recruiting: Strategy, Tactics and Tools for Hiring Organizations

Leadership Recruiting: Strategy, Tactics and Tools for Hiring Organizations

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 proce…

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Who: The A Method for Hiring

Who: The A Method for Hiring

Selecting talent in the A Method involves a series of structured interviews that allow you to gather the relevant facts about a person so you can rate your scorecard and make an informed hiring decision. These structured interviews break the voodoo hiring spell.

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High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant

High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant

Using the proven methods Wintrip has applied at some of today's more forward-thinking companies, you'll hire top employees faster―and smarter. High-Velocity Hiring replaces the old, worn-out way of hiring with the simple but revolutionary approach of actively cultivating top talent before positi…

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Hiring Greatness: How to Recruit Your Dream Team and Crush the Competition

Hiring Greatness: How to Recruit Your Dream Team and Crush the Competition

Hiring Greatness contains valuable insider strategies and tactics―previously only known to a handful of America's wealthiest, elite head-hunters―to attract, recruit, and retain star executives. Authors David E. Perry and Mark J. Haluska have completed more than 1800 search projects across five c…

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How to Hire A-Players: Finding the Top People for Your Team- Even If You Don't Have a Recruiting Department

How to Hire A-Players: Finding the Top People for Your Team- Even If You Don't Have a Recruiting Department

Herrenkohl explains how to use your existing marketing, sales, and networking efforts to find top candidates. He provides current examples of companies that consistently hire A-players without big recruiting departments as well as step-by-step explanations for making these strategies work in you…

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Additional Recruiting Reading

These books are not required for you to learn Recruiting, but they are highly recommended for you to deepen your knowledge.

Recruiting 101: The Fundamentals of Being a Great Recruiter

Recruiting 101: The Fundamentals of Being a Great Recruiter

Recruiting 101 explains how to develop 15 fundamental recruiting skills. Learn how to excel in sourcing, social media, recruitment marketing, candidate engagement, cold calling, interviewing and selection, and more.

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Knock 'em Dead Hiring the Best: Proven Tactics for Successful Employee Selection

Knock 'em Dead Hiring the Best: Proven Tactics for Successful Employee Selection

You cannot manage productively without first hiring effectively, yet all too often this most important of all management skills is overlooked--as if on promotion into management, a manager becomes mysteriously endowed with all the critical skills of intelligent employee selection. The odds are t…

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Search and Placement! A Handbook for Success

Search and Placement! A Handbook for Success

A remarkable product to dramatically increase the production of recruiters at ANY level. Newly revised and up-to-date, the depth of material and the clarity with which it is presented is absolutely first-rate. From Organizing Your Desk to Client Development to multiple chapters on Marketing and …

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