High-Tech High-Touch Recruiting

<p><strong>Despite global economic conditions companies are always looking to attract <em>and retain</em> the best talent. Unfortunately almost 30% of US job seekers leave a new job within the first 30 days. Why? Many new recruiters rely too heavily on high-tech tools to attract candidates and may not have learned the fundamental relationship-building skills that help recruiters ensure that clients and candidates are a good match.</strong></p><p><em><strong>High-Tech High-Touch Recruiting</strong> </em>provides recruiters with an end-to-end process for recruiting the highest caliber talent who after they are hired will become engaged employees. While emphasizing the overall importance of building high-touch relationship-building skills the book outlines how these can be blended successfully with high-tech tools such as AI-powered software applications to identify a large pool of qualified job candidates. Once you've identified candidates the author cautions against the sole use of text and email communication and suggests that recruiters conduct a general interview in order to better ascertain whether a candidate is the best fit for the role.</p><p><strong><em>High-Tech High-Touch Recruiting</em></strong> comes with online resources including sample offer letters recruiting scripts job requisitions interview scorecard a listing of characteristics of best hires and guidelines for a 9-step telephone interview process.</p>