Kogan Page The Robot-Proof Recruiter: A Survival Guide for Recruitment and Sourcing Professionals

This is a well written book that covers a lot pf topics in detail and includes new content. Modern and worth it.

So good, full of practical insights relevant to my everyday experience

In child-rearing, it takes a village. In recruiting, it takes a community. And Katrina Collier has tapped into the international talent sourcing and recruiting community to a remarkable "how-to" book. It belongs on the desk of each career-minded recruiter or talent sourcer. The Robot-Proof Recruiter is not meant to skim, but to read, ponder, and reflect on how it compares to your methods.The Robot-Proof Recruiter relieves some of the tension that this era creates with how to enhance your career while navigating the change automation and technology are creating. The Robot-Proof Recruiter provides benchmarks best practices and identifies the key elements of the skills required by a 21st Century recruiter/talent sourcer.Katrina Collier shares her technical competence on the pages of the book with her illustrations, experiences, best practices, and recruiting secrets to success. Katrina also shares her heart with you. Quite ironically, in the discussion of AI, Automation & Technology, there is an ongoing old school practice of enslaving peoples. If you purchase The Robot-Proof Recruiter, remember it connects you to a bigger opportunity, ending modern-day slavery.

This is an excellent first book. Well researched and very well written its is full of insightful actionable advice that shows the author has a lifetime of experience in recruitment.The author's key thesis is that technology offers powerful tools for recruiters and hiring managers but so far we've been using the wrong tools or using tools badly. She is a lifelong recruiting professional but pulls no punches when criticising her colleagues and profession on what they've been doing wrong.She talks passionately about how recruiters need to be human-centric in order to deliver value - which means the best possible candidates into the most appropriate jobs for their clients. If recruiters behave like unthinking machines then they will likely be replaced by one!The Robot Proof Recruiter gives some advice for candidates but is mostly focussed on the "buy side" - the recruitment professionals in companies or agencies, the hiring managers, directors and the company itself. She discusses how people and companies are perceived and how they need to present themselves in a world where power has shifted to the candidates. Candidates have the power, through social media, to name and shame companies and recruiters who "ghost" them or treat them poorly.Through 10 chapters and 240 pages, this book explains how to present yourself, your hiring manager and the company correctly, how to get the candidate intake right how to write "human first job adverts" and how to leverage technology in messaging whilst making it human, personal and real. She gives very good practical advice on the candidate experience that is needed to get in-demand candidates to choose your job.Detailed insight and info is given on a modern, best-in-class application process, interview format and follow up.It's a well organised and well written book by a real stand out expert in the field. You can read it in a couple of days, it might take you several months or even longer to implement everything you want to change after reading the book. My advice is to buy a copy for everyone in your organisation that is involved in the hiring process and go on a journey reading it together whilst making an action plan.You'll need buy in from multiple areas to make the changes this book shows and demands but I think few things can improve company performance more than significantly improving the talent pool within the company. Implementing the recommendations contained in this book is an excellent way to do that.

This book is SO important right now. In #robotproofrecruiter, Katrina Collier gives her readers not only a much-needed gut-punch perspective that details the multitude of ways in which many recruiters are failing both their candidates and clients/employers, she forces the proverbial mirror in front of the conscientious recruiting professional, who will likely find himself/herself in a contact state of introspection asking "am I doing this?".Unlike many writers who fixate only on the reasons traditional recruiters are globally loathed, Katrina provides a resolution that comes in the form of a single-source compilation of relevant and effective best practices. She gifts the reader with access to conversations and insights that she has gleaned from industry experts, all effectively referenced. She poses important questions and offers creative (and current) answers to questions that many recruiting professionals already have. This isn't another standard "how to" manual...this is a call to action. Katrina clearly wants to create a legion of BETTER recruiters who produce higher quality placements resulting in a happier (and more productive) workforce.Moving forward, I will ensure that every member of any team I manage receives a copy of this book. I'm NOT sharing mine.