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.

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

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, …

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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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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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The Robot-Proof Recruiter: A Survival Guide for Recruitment and Sourcing Professionals

The Robot-Proof Recruiter: A Survival Guide for Recruitment and Sourcing Professionals

It contains essential guidance on overcoming obstacles - including how to recruit without an existing online presence, how to work effectively with hiring managers to improve the candidate experience, and how to use technology to support the candidate's journey from initial outreach, to applicat…

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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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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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Additional Recruiting Reading

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

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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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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