7 Books Every Recruiter Should Read in 2017

What was the last business book you read?  Do you read ones specifically for recruiters?  Zoho, who offer beautifully smart recruitment software to help you grow your business, share their suggestion of 7 books that every recruiter should read in 2017.  We’ll have more great content from them over the coming months.

Social Media Recruitment: How to Successfully Integrate Social Media into Recruitment Strategy 

This is a book that Louise has previously reviewed. As the recruiting landscape changes, different methods are needed to attract talent, and social media is a key channel. However, many HR and recruiting professionals are not equipped with the knowledge and understanding to create a social media recruiting strategy. Social Media Recruitment combines practical guidance with case studies and insights from industry thought leaders to provide a full understanding of what social media means for HR and recruitment and how to successfully integrate and use it.

In a series of easy-to-follow chapters and manageable steps, Social Media Recruitment covers the essentials from the beginning to the end of the process, including: how to implement a social media strategy; the crossover between HR, recruiting and marketing; measuring ROI; HR policies and procedures needed; big data and HR; using technology in recruiting, such as video interviewing; social media as an internal collaboration and communication tool across companies; how social media will impact recruiting and HR in the future. Ideal for all HR and recruitment professionals, and anyone responsible for talent strategy, Social Media Recruitment focuses on devising and implementing a social media recruitment strategy that works for your organisation and is aligned with your recruitment objectives.

The Talent Code: Greatness isn’t born. It’s grown

In The Talent Code, award-winning journalist Daniel Coyle draws on cutting-edge research to reveal that, far from being some abstract mystical power fixed at birth, ability really can be created and nurtured.

In the process, he considers talent at work in venues as diverse as a music school in Dallas and a tennis academy near Moscow to demostrate how the wiring of our brains can be transformed by the way we approach particular tasks. He explains what is really going on when apparently unremarkable people suddenly make a major leap forward. He reveals why some teaching methods are so much more effective than others. Above all, he shows how all of us can achieve our full potential if we set about training our brains in the right way.

The 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 continents, maintaining a 99.97% success rate, and negotiating more than $380 million in salaries. Like magicians unveiling the hidden tricks of the trade,′ Perry and Haluska reveal:

How to systematically secure and retain the perfect talent for your company
How to keep recruiters from poaching your star executives (a good hire is relatively meaningless if they leave the company)
Twenty–three questions you must ask a potential headhunter
The language that makes your company the most compelling, and how HR lingo can repel the best talent
Four critical turnoffs that drive great candidates away from top companies

Legacy

In Legacy, best-selling author James Kerr goes deep into the heart of the world’s most successful sporting team, the legendary All Blacks of New Zealand, to reveal 15 powerful and practical lessons for leadership and business.

Legacy is a unique, inspiring handbook for leaders in all fields, and asks: What are the secrets of success – sustained success? How do you achieve world-class standards, day after day, week after week, year after year? How do you handle pressure? How do you train to win at the highest level? What do you leave behind you after you’re gone?

Recruitment Blueprint: Control the deal and make more placements

Recruitment Blueprint takes you through a comprehensive, step by step system that shows you how to easily control candidates and clients throughout the complete recruitment process and provides practical strategies to help you close more recruitment deals and deliver successful placements every time.

All of the top-performing recruiters and most successful hiring and staffing businesses have one thing in common – they consistently use world-class processes on every requirement they work.

Recruitment Blueprint provides you with a comprehensive strategic plan for introducing process and consistency into each stage of a placement, ensuring that you place more candidates into more jobs, generate more revenues for your recruitment company, and earn more commission for yourself.

Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude

Common hiring practices are destined for failure―here’s how to hire the right people and build a company culture designed for long-term success

What’s more important in a job candidate―skills or attitude? Mark Murphy argues for the latter, and Hiring for Attitude provides the data to back it up.

In a major study by Murphy’s company, Leadership IQ, 46 percent of all new hires fail within their first 18 months―and 89 percent fail for attitudinal reasons, not skills. Hiring for Attitude explains how to change your hiring practices to avoid this common pitfall and lead your company to long-term success. It takes you step by step through the process of shedding hiring techniques destined for failure and, instead, focus on the what matters in a candidate: attitude.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A’s, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge-insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.  If you are wondering What Moneyball Can Teach You About Hiring The Right People < read this!

More from Zoho next month!