12 Books Recruiters Should Read in 2020

March 20, 2020 Jonathan Kidder No comments exist

Looking for a book to read? Maybe you’re sticking to social distancing like the rest of the world? Just doing a general search on Amazon there’s roughly 7,000 books related to the recruiting industry. With a lot of Recruiters having extra time it’s a great time to be productive and do some learning.

 

When it comes to recruiting and sourcing, one needs to stay updated on the latest recruiting trends within our industry. Whether it’s learning about AI, automation, screening, behavioral based interviewing, or recruiting tools Recruiters and Sourcers need to be continuously learning.

 

Try one of these 12 books that were written with recruiters in mind:

 

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

Better understand how you can take advantage of modern-day tools as a recruiter, including chatbots, AI, and search automation tools. This kind of tech will soon be a necessity in any recruiter’s work process, so you can learn how to harness it for better hiring capabilities before your competition jumps ahead of you.

 

2. Full Stack Recruiter: New Secrets Revealed

Creative sourcing is a primary focus in this book that helps sharpen any experienced recruiter’s skill sets so that they can take things up a notch and find better, more diverse talent in any industry. Learn to use non-typical platforms and then dig into the topics of growth hacking, content, typography, and storytelling to set yourself apart.

 


 3. The Savage Truth: Lessons in Leadership, Business, and Life from 40 Years in Recruitment

This book gets down in the trenches to look deep at the recruitment industry and how it has evolved over the past 40 years. Learn how to scale and survive through hard job markets while building a personal brand and learning how to hire great people with the right attitude.

 


4. The Science of Talent: How to find, grow and keep the right people in your organization

This book answers the tough questions about whether or not you should continue using appraisals, whether you should treat new generations differently, and how you can tell if someone has “talent” or not, and what that truly means in the world of recruiting.

 


5. Talent without Borders: Global Talent Acquisition for Competitive Advantage

Learn to identify, hire, and retain talent with the use of global recruitment strategies. The practical approach explained within will help guide your evidence-based decisions so that you can build a strategy that gives you a true competitive advantage while managing the whole talent life cycle.

 

6. Strengths-Based Recruitment and Development: A Practical Guide to Transforming Talent Management Strategy for Business Results

Check out the recruitment strategy that top performers like SABMiller, Saga, Gap, Starbucks, and other big name companies use to find and retain the best talent. The idea of the strategy will change how you look at talent and what you look for, focusing on their strengths and what they enjoy doing already. It claims you’ll have a 50% decrease in turnover and a 20% increase in productivity just by using this method.

 

7. How to Be an Inclusive Leader: You’re Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive

Creating a more inclusive workplace is a central topic of focus these days, but how do you do it? This book will help you establish a hiring and work environment where every person can thrive, promoting a more diverse workspace.

 

 

8. Recruitment and Selection: Strategies for Workforce Planning & Assessment

Find and assess good talent the right way using ethical and effective methods put forth in this book. It contains a lot of practical tips along with a healthy dose of theory, so it’s a great read if you want a type of “user manual” to guide and improve your workforce planning.

 

9. The Book of Recruiting; Da Costa Style

This book may be controversial, but this quick reference guide is considered to contain a lot of useful information for new and seasoned recruiters alike. It comes from the author’s 20 years of experience and contains lots of examples to help you build new processes for recruiting. I had the opportunity to interview Dean on this book (here). 

 

10. Hack Recruiting: The Best of Empirical Research, Method and Process, and Digitization

Recruiting is evolving, and you must embrace new tools if you want to succeed. In this book, you’ll learn from psychologists how to better match candidates to a position using new technology. You’ll find ways to improve your processes, save time, and get better results while candidates have a better experience in the new digital world.

 

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

If you’re a technical recruiter, consider this one a must-read. This book looks at the vocabulary of big data along with other jargon and explains crucial skill sets you should look for when hiring. If you work in the tech recruiting field this is definitely a handy book to have on hand and I highly recommend it. 

 

Top Talent Sourcing Tools for Recruiters

12. Top Talent Sourcing Tools for Recruiters

Are you new to the world of talent sourcing? Maybe you’ve heard about recruiting tools that can help find candidates online? Maybe you have trouble finding a candidate’s email or cell number in order to reach out?

 

 

Recommended Reading:

10 Useful Extension Tools to Boost Recruiting Productivity

Personal Development Tips to Become a Better Recruiter

The Best Video Interviewing Tools for Recruiting Teams

 

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