1. Professional Recruiter’s Handbook by Jane Newell Brown
A complete guide to achieving success in recruitment. The authors explore the techniques used by the most successful recruiters, both agency and client-side, to understand what creates excellence in recruitment.
2. 101 Strategies for Recruiting Success by Christopher W. Pritchard
Presenting sage advice in bite-sized chunks designed for immediate implementation, 101 Strategies for Recruiting Success offers practical tips of the trade from a recruiting professional with more than two decades of experience with world-renowned corporations.
3. Recruiting with Social Media by Raj Anand
Teaches you how to use social media to build an open, engaging two-way conversation with potential employees…target job advertising more efficiently and at lower cost…choose the right tools and platforms. Recruiting with Social Media will help you recruit quality staff faster and at a lower cost.
4. Start Your Own Executive Recruiting Business by Entrepreneur Press
This comprehensive guide reveals the strategies used by the best executive search professionals in starting and running their own successful placement services. Learn how to find the best talent for hire – and make good money doing it.
5. Teach Yourself Successful Recruitment in a Week by Nigel Cumberland
The ‘in a week’ structure of the book provides seven straightforward chapters explaining the key points, and at the end there are optional questions to ensure you have taken it all in. There are also cartoons and diagrams throughout, to help make this book a more enjoyable and effective learning experience.
6. Recruiting on the Web by Michael Foster
It explains the best practices, creative ideas and recruiting tools used by the most forward-looking companies and professional recruiters to lower their recruiting costs, slash cycle time, and hire the very best candidates via the Web.
7. Internet Recruiting: A Human Resource Guide by George Zambos
Lays out strategies and structure to use in a recruiting campaign using the Internet, and tells about specific techniques you can use to save time and make money.
8. How to Become a Better Executive Recruiter by Michael Palumbo
This book will teach you how you can get the most out of your recruiting firm. Lots of “hints” to help your firm grow – and much more…
9. How to Recruit (& Retain) the Right Staff by Graham Martin
This book aims to provide simple, yet exceptionally powerful recruiting strategies for non-HR managers. In it you will find essential advice on how to recruit more effectively. Tips on how to retain the right staff are provided.

10. How To Set Up A: RECRUITMENT COMPANY by Ian Oldfield
Ebook detailing how to set up a Recruitment Company with draft questions, Terms of Business, websites to visit and handy tips.
This is part of our 600 Interesting and Useful Things for Recruiters series. Supplied by Alex Martin, Editor of the UK Recruiter Newsletter





By the way we have tons more really great recruitment books on our “shopping channel” including a couple by Steve Finkel. All at https://ukrecruiter.co.uk/uk-recruiter-shopping-channel/
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The Rich Recruiter is a good new recruitment book. It covers both the selling side of recruitment and the candidate side.
Here’s a link if anyone is interested: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KJGYB8M/