On Recruitment
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4.6 • 14 Ratings
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- £3.99
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
This book will be appreciated by people who don’t ever need to be involved in the hiring of a new staff member. Everybody has to work in recruitment at some point in their life – even if it’s only to find a job.
Mitch Sullivan has experienced recruitment from a number of different perspectives – not least those of a hiring manager and a job seeker. He’s spent nearly 30 years in the industry – in agencies, in large corporates and as a recruitment copywriter.
His blogging style has been described as “three cords and the truth” – partly because each blog generally takes less than a couple of minutes to read and partly because of the unapologetic sarcasm and wit he uses to deliver this honesty.
This book is a collection of some of the 150 blogs he’s written on recruitment, covering areas of the industry as diverse as agency culture, retained recruitment, assessment, employer branding, job advertising, the candidate experience and even employee engagement.
Customer Reviews
Doesn’t Resonate with me
Quite entertaining and most of the time readable. There is also the odd gem too.
The whole tone of ‘everybody hates recruiters because they’re s#!t’ is entertaining at first and explored in good detail, but towards the end started to become tiresome for me.
I must say some of what is discussed in terms of how tough a 3rd party recruitment job can be, how dysfunctional the industry is or how we go about dealing with candidates for example has never really been my reality, or the reality of any colleagues I have worked with. All recruiters are more or less categorised and tossed in together; I’m aware that there are individuals and companies out there who dart from job to job or client to client and simply get lucky from time to time and don’t treat this like a proper profession, but in my experience this is now a minority... sure we can do job ads better in large part, and we can go further to fill jobs. The image of this massive industry largely taken up by rabbits caught in the headlights, is not something I have experienced in large part. Individuals can be like this, but they either don’t last long or buck their ideas up quickly.
I find the advice and analysis a mixed bag. Some spot on, innovative thoughts here, but also some archaic and bizarre thought processes going on.
This book may represent reality for a few, it may also represent a largely held outsider view of the industry for most. But outside of a boiler room style, low end, non technical agency (of which I don’t think there are any great number that I know of) there isn’t much to take away as a message.
Am I sorry I bought it? No, I enjoyed most, and even when raising an eyebrow found it got me thinking at the least. It’s a shame books about my profession are rare.
I think if a fact / process based / technical follow up were to be written I would probably check it out.