The Recruiter’s Handbook: A Complete Guide for Sourcing, Selecting, and Engaging the Best Talent

by Sharlyn J. Lauby

The Recruiter’s Handbook provides comprehensive, step-by-step guidelines through the complete recruiting process. Written by HR Bartender’s Sharlyn Lauby, SHRM-SCP, with insights, tips, and tools from dozens of HR, recruiting, and business experts, the Handbook delivers a proven roadmap to not only help shorten learning curves and avoid legal pitfalls, but build trust in new hire relationships. Along the way it shows how to drive cultural change by offering guidelines for veteran, disabled, or ex-offender recruiting efforts, how to build strong apprenticeship, mentoring, or internship programs, how to effectively conduct assessments, reference checks, and background checks, and much more.

Genres: Nonfiction

283 pages, Paperback

Published January 30, 2018

About the author

Sharlyn Lauby is an author, writer, speaker, and consultant. She has been named a Top HR Digital Influencer and is best-known for her work on HR Bartender (www.hrbartender.com), a friendly place to talk about workplace issues. HR Bartender has been recognized as one of the Top 5 Blogs Read by HR professionals by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and best business blog by the Stevie Awards.

Publications such as Reuters, The New York Times, ABC News, TODAY, and The Wall Street Journal have sought out her expertise on topics related to human resources and the workplace.

Her personal goal in life is to find the best cheeseburger on the planet.

Reviews

[BookCupid · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was quite helpful to dive deeper into the tips and tricks of recruitment. It seems easier than it sounds. However, once you start recruiting regularly, you quickly realize that technique is key. It helped to learn about the different types of interviews, background checks and how to calculate quality of hiring.

[Juliana Aye · Rating 4 out of 5]

As someone who is self taught in the corporate world this was very helpful in improving my knowledge in recruiting. It did make me wonder a bit how this transfers to the blue collar world as this seems a bit more white collar based. I believe the basics are the same but often there's a different mindset. I would be curious to see this book with more people in the blue collar line of work.