While there are many books written about recruitment, which best focuses on the technology side of it? We’ve compiled a top 9 of books on recruitment technology.
The top 9 books about recruitment technology
The ranking of this top 9 is based on the ratings the books have received on Amazon. While there are many books that could have featured, we’ve tried to look for books that have been published in the last two to three years.
1. Candidate Experience: How to Improve Talent Acquisition to Drive Business Performance by Kevin W. Grossman and Adela Schoolderman
Candidate Experience discusses why talent acquisition is more than just recruitment. The book provides expert guidance on all the key phases of the experience: attraction, application, interviewing, offer and onboarding. Grossmand and Schoolderman offer clear explanations of how to use data, metrics and KPIs to track and measure candidate experience as well as coverage of how to excel at recruitment in a post-Covid world, which ranges from remote interviewing to surge hiring and identifying the new skills a company needs to thrive.
Amazon rating: 4.8 out of 5
2. The Robot-Proof Recruiter by Katrina Collier (2nd edition)
In the second edition of The Robot-Proof Recruiter, Katrina Collier details the skills needed by today’s full-life-cycle talent acquisition teams need to stay relevant and not become obsolete. This book contains practical advice, tested examples, and recommendations even the most seasoned recruiter will find valuable. In simple terms: The Robot-Proof Recruiter book explains what works, what doesn’t, and how you can stand out and recruit effectively in a world of technology overload.
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5
3. Full Stack Recruiter by Jan Tegze
In Full Stack Recruiter, recruiting veteran Jan Tegze shares years of practical, real-world experience into one comprehensive guide to succeeding in recruiting in the digital era. It delves into the history of recruitment — but also aims to help readers to excel in recruitment marketing, candidate engagement, recruitment analytics and candidate engagement — among other things.
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5
4. Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers by Robb Wilson
We don’t just feature books about recruiting on this list. In Age of Invisible Machines, author Robb Wilson delves into artificial intelligence beyond its predictive capabilities and prowess for managing data. Rather than humans having to learn computer languages, computers can speak ours, as Wilson puts it. He describes it as a new technology landscape where interfaces recede from view and our lives become greatly enhanced by invisible machines.
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5
5. Evidence-Based Recruiting: How to Build a Company of Star Performers Through Systematic and Repeatable Hiring Practices by Atta Tarki
In today’s fast-paced, ever-changing business environment, you must take an offensive stance to keep your competitors at bay. This book aims to provide the inspiration, the know-how, and the tools you need to achieve it. Anna Tarki’s book Evidence-Based Recruiting guides readers through the process of designing and implementing a data-driven hiring strategy that will secure your business for the foreseeable future.
Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5
6. High-Tech High-Touch Recruiting by Barbara Bruno
High-Tech High-Touch Recruiting aims to provide recruiters with an end-to-end process for recruiting the highest caliber talent who, after they are hired, will become engaged employees. While emphasising the overall importance of building “high-touch” relationship-building skills, the book outlines how these can be blended successfully with “high-tech” tools such as AI-powered software applications to identify a large pool of qualified job candidates.
Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5
7. Introduction to HR Technologies: Understand How to Use Technology to Improve Performance and Processes by Stacey Harris
With more apps, software and platforms than ever before, the volume and variety of available technologies can be overwhelming. This makes it extremely difficult for HR professionals to know where to start when assessing what technologies are out there and which are worth investing in. That’s what Stacey Harris aims to address with her book Introduction to HR Technologies. In clear, accessible and jargon-free language, her book serves as a guide for HR professionals needing to get to grips with technologies and understand how to use them to add tangible business value.
Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5
8. Recruiting in the Age of Googlization by Ira S. Wolfe
Author Ira S. Wolfe’s book Recruiting in the Age of Googlization aims to help readers escape talent poverty and create the opportunity to enjoy talent prosperity. That’s not easy, he argues, but it is absolutely essential if your business expects to grow in this 3rd decade of the 21st century. The good news is that with talent prosperity comes engagement, opportunity, and sustainable growth. The book shines a light on Wolfe’s blueprint for an ‘awesome’ candidate experience, which he views as the foundation of modern-day recruitment and talent acquisition.
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5
9. The Future of Recruitment by Franziska Leutner, Reece Akhtar and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
The Future of Recruitment aims to help everyone understand the past, present, and future of recruitment. Franziska Leutner, Reece Akhtar and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic teamed up to describe the modern technologies and ideas that are changing recruitment, many of which are driven by artificial intelligence (AI). Ranging from automated video interviews to game-based assessments, they evaluate underlying ethical issues and highlight the benefits of tech in today’s world of recruitment.
Amazon rating: 3.7 out of 5
