How to Attract and Retain the Best Talent By Improving the Candidate Experience
by Barbara Bruno
HighTech HighTouch Recruiting shows a recruiter-trainer’s practical approach to fixing early turnover and making hires that stick. The book reads like hands-on training: clear tactics, checklists, and real-world examples aimed at improving intake conversations, sourcing, interviewing, and early onboarding. Its useful part is tactical immediacy for the person running hiring processes; its main limitation is a trainer's certainty and repetition that undercuts nuance and broader labor-market context. If you want academic analysis or gentle, open-ended discussion, this will feel narrow.
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With unemployment rates globally at a 50year low, finding the right person for the job is increasingly difficult, expensive and often unsuccessful. In fact, almost 30% of US job seekers have left a job within the first 90 days. In HighTech HighTouch Recruiting, expert recruiter and trainer Barbara Bruno attributes these low retention rates to po...
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Consider Good to Great by Jim Collins. Recommended by 32 sources.
“The book walks you through a multi-year research project, contrasting spectacular performers with mere survivors. The core insight—that sustained greatness hinges on disciplined people, thought, and action—feels sturdy and actionable. But the book’s arguments rely on retrospective selection of companies, and some of its darlings later faltered. You’ll find a methodical, almost monastic tone that rewards patience but may irritate if you want contemporary, tech-savvy lessons.”
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