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The Complete Guide to Technical Recruiting

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This is not a guide but more of an attempt to make something like recruiting seem like neuosurgery. I disliked the book for many reasons. The book talked about being thorough and complete, yet the book has numerous typographical errors from start to finish. Hardly thorough. The book seems to be aimed at agency, and executive search firm recruiting, and disregards corporate and consulting recruiting. Again, hardly thorough. I particularly found the "closing methods" used in the book, distasteful, hard sell, and "slam it against the wall to see if it sticks" type of mentality, similar to the used car salesman tactics of yesteryear. Hardly professional in this day and age. It taught the recruiter to be more like the negative connotations associated with the old terms that hurt our industry. "Headhunter" immediately comes to mind. It emphasizes the recruiter putting deals together and making placements, rather than conducting professional indepth interviews of the candidate to find hot buttons and professionally matching their needs and wants with current requisitions. At the risk of sounding redundant, not very thorough or complete. Articulation certainly isn't this author's forte. If I wasn't already a seasoned recruiter, I would be on the wrong foot and literally guided into oblivion. A waste of paper, and especially my time. Save your money!

I bought this book after comming out of the military and entering into the recuriting field. I found it to be a very helpful, and I use it on a daily basis, particularily the check lists enclosed. I believe that the methods to prepare candidates for face to face interviews are outstanding, however it would be benificial if there was a telephone interview preparation sheet. Additionally, a section on overcomming objections would be useful, however this is not a sales book, it is a book to help you create and manage the process of recruiting. As far as the typos go, who cares? Pay attention to the content delivered, and not the author's ability to type. He is teaching recruiting, not English. Like any other guide on how to do anything, this is based on the author's opinions and his experience. It should be used in conjuncture with other materials to form your own style and methods.

Far from being a complete guide, this book is a narrow, incomplete collection of old ideas and outdated techniques. If you tried any of this stuff, you would be lost in the dust. Also, it's so full of typos and poor grammar, it would not pass a simple English test.

I sent this book back from whence it came. It was of no value to me. So full of typographical errors, poor writing, contradictions, and fantasies that I could not accept it as any help at all. Buy some other book, not this one.

After reading the reviews, I was excited when I ordered this book. Two days, and 25 spelling and grammatical errors later, I was disappointed. This book preaches professionalism, ethics, and honesty, for that I appreciate Charlie's effort. However, it is hard to buy when there are numerous spelling and grammatical errors in the same paragraphs that "accept nothing but the VERY best" is being preached. A lot of good information, but nothing spectacular. This would be a good text for new recruiters to read, for the rest of us...merely commentary.

After reading this book, I have learned many new techniques to my old recruiting ways. This book can definitely teach new and not so new Recruiters that there are different ways to make money recruiting. Anyone can learn and teach from this book, I have! This approach really makes the recruiting process less work and less stressful!!

I was disconcerted to find a very substandard book instead of what I had expected. I had ideas of receiving a really helpful book to make me a better technical recruiter, but I received a book of personal opinions and theoretical protocols that even I know better than to try, and I am pretty new at this. Luckily I had bought 3 books, and one of the others is outstanding. Don't bother with this one.

Being in the technical field for a number of years, I decided to change careers into the field of Technical Recruiting. Since I had no background whatsoever in recruiting I decided to purchase this manual to "get my feet wet" so to speak. I was not disappointed. It give some very insightful and useful tools with which to work. I agree that there were a number of grammatical errors, but overlooking that, I was still able to glean useful information for my new career.

I am brand new to Technical Recruiting after spending time as a military recruiter and I bought this book hoping it would better explain this brand new world of IT. My company knew of my shortcomings and said they would train me, but we have been so busy and my training has taken a backseat. I wanted to buy this book to start teaching myself so that I could contribute. This book talked nothing of the specific IT jobs nor did it explain anything about the SDLC. Basically, I was looking for Technical Recruiting 101 and thought the "The Complete Guide to Technical Recruiting" would be just what I needed. Sadly to say, this book just didn't measure up.

While browsing the Amazon.com website, I ran across The Complete Guide to Technical Recruiting by Charlie K. Dawson, CPC. What arrived was a looseleaf-bound, 287 page text with surprisingly good content. If you are (or want to be) in the technical recruiting business, I'd recommend the purchase.

So often, I am sent books which purport to be on target, but whose authors just don't get it. This 14-chapter book does get it. It has many forms, checklists and guidelines which are as good as I've seen. I disagree on some minor issues - but then I usually do - but all in all, it's well worth the money.