The Professional Recruiter's Handbook: Delivering Excellence in Recruitment Practice

by Ann Swain, Jane Newell-Brown, Jane Newell Brown

The Professional Recruiter’s Handbook is a thorough guide to achieving success as a recruiting consultant. The authors explore the techniques used by the most successful recruiters, both agency and client-side, to understand what creates excellence in executive search.   Containing practical advice on attracting the right candidates and finding and retaining new clients, it explains how to develop a recruitment strategy to ensure the recruitment professional can fill vacancies successfully. The book is supported by numerous case studies and interviews with recruitment professionals.

Genres: Recruitment

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 2009

Reviews

[Andreea · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am an in-house recruiter with 5 years of experience in agency. Here are my comments regarding this book:

- not for in-house recruiters
- it is US oriented
- quite old in terms of information and very basic. Pieces of advice based on theory where everything goes right... but it is not as simple as it is in the real life. I really have the impression that the authors have no clue about the recruitment field.
- I recommend this book maybe for graduates who want to start a career in recruitment
- I myself had retained a couple of good ideas (5 that is for 250 pages and is mostly in time management or anything not related to recruitment)

[Aishwarya Iyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best to understand many basic recruitment concepts.

[Rory · Rating 2 out of 5]

May be fine for many industries, but not mine. Didn't help me at all.

[Ankita]

Would like to read this book.