Top Recruiting books recommended 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

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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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 your own company.

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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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Technology Made Simple for the Technical Recruiter, Second Edition: A Technical Skills Primer

This technical skills primer focuses on technology fundamentals—from basic programming terms to big data vocabulary, network lingo, operating system jargon, and other crucial skill sets. Topics covered include:

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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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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 that no one ever taught you how to hire effectively and manage productively--until now.

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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.

Recruit Rockstars: The 10 Step Playbook to Find the Winners and Ignite Your Business

Ninety percent of business problems are actually recruiting problems in disguise. If you're filling your company's vacant positions with B-Players, you're playing with fire. Instead, hire Rockstars to build an organization with limitless potential. Recruit Rockstars shows you how to find, hire, and keep the best of the best.

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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 Recruiting, this beautifully-written book simply flows. Preparing and Coaching Candidate and Client,…

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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 positions open

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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 process."Peter Cappelli, Professor of Management, The Wharton School In business, recruiting the right le…

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