{"id":2100,"date":"2020-07-07T09:56:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T09:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recooty.com\/blog\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2025-06-20T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T07:27:22","slug":"10-best-recruitment-books-to-read-during-this-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recooty.com\/blog\/10-best-recruitment-books-to-read-during-this-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Best Recruitment Books To Read During This Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2100\" class=\"elementor elementor-2100\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-483c1e85 single_inner_blog e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"483c1e85\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d8756d8 e-con-full case_left_sticky e-flex e-con e-child\" 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to stay at our homes. All thanks to the coronavirus. Undoubtedly the COVID 19 outbreak has successfully ensured that our lives remain in a state of limbo. Especially for the professionals in the recruiting industry, this lockdown has brought upon a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/recooty.com\/blog\/how-can-a-recruiting-software-help-you-during-a-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">number of challenges<\/a>. But in these challenging times, the most important thing for a recruiter is not to lose the zest to learn. This pandemic is the perfect opportunity to rethink strategies, realign priorities, and upskill yourselves. But how? The best way to learn and grow perspective is to read books. In this article, we have carefully curated a list of 10 best recruitment books to read during this lockdown that can help recruiters to remain top class in their game.<\/p><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cA book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company, by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.\u201d<\/p><p><cite>\u2013 Charles Baudelaire<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote><p>Recruitment is tougher in these challenging situations. If you want to dominate the hiring competition, you need to stay at the top of the game. So, the latest recruitment trends and best practices are a must. This lockdown is the perfect opportunity to go back to old school learning, which is, reading books! Good books that teach you the art of recruitment and the ins and outs of the complete recruitment process are a much better option than some expensive online courses. You not only improve your skills tremendously but also gain new perspectives. 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elementor-element-cba6bde elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cba6bde\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Who-Geoff-Smart\/dp\/0345504194\/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1431463573\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WHO: The A Method For Hiring<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3a0b1df elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3a0b1df\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Authors-\u00a0<\/strong>Geoff Smart and Randy Street<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why should you read this book?<\/strong>\u00a0This book was published back in 2008 by Geoff Smart and Randy Street and has been listed 10 out of 20 times. The title of this book may seem a little weird to you at first, but this book contains great insights for recruiters and hiring managers. This book is all about \u201dwho\u201d and not \u201dwhat\u201d, \u201dwho\u201d are the people you hire to make \u201dwhat\u201d decisions. This book is a result of hours of interviews with billionaires and CEOs about their hiring experiences and tips. All of that, condensed into one single, precise book.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cWe define an A Player this way: a candidate who has at least a 90 percent chance of achieving a set of outcomes that only the top 10 percent of possible candidates could achieve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2015\u00a0<strong>Geoff Smart,\u00a0<\/strong>Who: The A Method for Hiring<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3614936 e-con-full tab_blog e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3614936\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0c27f24 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0c27f24\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1455554790\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=consultants50-20&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;creativeASIN=1455554790&#038;linkId=8b4b3ebe02e51273e0b054798ad55b43\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WORK RULES!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f3cdf52 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f3cdf52\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Author-\u00a0<\/strong>Laszlo Bock<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why should you read this book?\u00a0<\/strong>This book is a perfect read for companies who are aspiring to become big, as big as Google. This book basically revolves around the whole recruiting and workplace strategies of Google. Laszlo Bock reveals in this book why Google is consistently rated as one of the top places to work and as a result, why it is the dream company of talented individuals. Bock also provides teaching experience from a range of industries based on behavioral economics and human psychology.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201dWe spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It\u2019s not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2015\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Laszlo Bock<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8726330 e-con-full tab_blog e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"8726330\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b7f26fd elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b7f26fd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others\/dp\/0066620996\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&#038;keywords=Good+to+Great%3A+Why+Some+Companies+Make+the+Leap%E2%80%A6+and+Others+Don%E2%80%99t&#038;qid=1594098471&#038;s=books&#038;sr=1-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap\u2026 and Others Don\u2019t<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cd57e31 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cd57e31\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Authors-\u00a0<\/strong>Jim Collins<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why should you read this book?\u00a0<\/strong>Although this book isn\u2019t directly related to recruiting, it is a must-read for all the people who want to know how companies succeed. This information is useful to recruiters too because a recruiter is involved in finding people who lead an organization to success. In this book, Jim Collins, who is a former faculty member at the Stanford Graduate school of Business, highlights the factors that transform good companies into great ones. This book is a result of intense research using tough benchmarks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cGreatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2015\u00a0<strong>Jim Collins,\u00a0<\/strong>Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap\u2026 and Others Don\u2019t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-afe7132 e-con-full tab_blog e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"afe7132\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e05322f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e05322f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Moneyball-Art-Winning-Unfair-Game\/dp\/0393324818\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Moneyball%3A+The+Art+of+Winning+an+Unfair+Game&#038;qid=1708061114&#038;s=books&#038;sr=1-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game\n<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2725060 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2725060\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Author-\u00a0<\/strong>Michael Lewis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why should you read this book?\u00a0<\/strong>As you can guess by its cover, yes this book is about baseball. This book portrays how the Oakland A\u2019s turned one of the lowest budgets in Major League Baseball into a team of amazing players. 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Even the current employees are working from home. In most cases, the whole work from home arrangement has been a success and as a result, beneficial too. So, a recruiter needs to understand this trend and make amends. This book is the perfect guide for recruiters and hiring managers who are willing to upscale their knowledge in remote hiring and work environments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cyou\u2019d be amazed how much quality collective thought can be captured using two simple tools: a voice connection and a shared screen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2015\u00a0<strong>Jason Fried,\u00a0<\/strong>Remote: Office Not Required<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e66eb6e e-con-full tab_blog e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e66eb6e\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3040403 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3040403\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hire-Your-Head-Performance-Based-Hiring\/dp\/0470128356\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&#038;keywords=Hire+With+Your+Head%3A+Using+Performance-Based+Hiring+to+Build+Great+Teams&#038;qid=1594110606&#038;sr=8-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Great Teams\n<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7780439 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7780439\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Author-\u00a0<\/strong>Lou Adler<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why you should read this book?\u00a0<\/strong>Packed with fresh case studies from leading companies this book introduces you to the performance-based hiring system and is also fully updated to cover all the recent developments in online hiring and other new technologies in the field. So, this is a godly book for every manager who wishes to hire the right person every time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cGood people always ask good questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2015\u00a0<strong>Lou Adler,\u00a0<\/strong>The Essential Guide for Hiring &amp; Getting Hired<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38b741a e-con-full tab_blog e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"38b741a\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-86c0356 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"86c0356\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Social-Media-Recruitment-Successfully-Integrate\/dp\/0749473703\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1T262R1D2L6UR&#038;dchild=1&#038;keywords=social+media+recruitment&#038;qid=1594112035&#038;sprefix=SOCIAL+MEDIA+RE%2Caps%2C497&#038;sr=8-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Social-media recruitment<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b617075 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b617075\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Author-\u00a0<\/strong>Andy Headworth<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why you should read this book?<\/strong>\u00a0This book contains a series of easy-to-follow chapters of social media recruitment that covers the essentials of hiring from head to toe. 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