Katrina Collier - The Robot-Proof Recruiter: A Survival Guide for Recruitment and Sourcing Professionals

Finding and hiring the best talent has been and will continue to be a business imperative. The Robot-Proof Recruiter is an essential resource for talent acquisition professionals looking for best practices and proven guidance to stand out in a competitive recruiting market. I particularly loved the focus on building relationships with hiring managers, not something traditionally covered in a recruitment book but so necessary!

Sharlyn Lauby, talent management consultant and creator of the HR Bartender blog

Theres never been a more important time to re-evaluate our hiring processes and ask whats not working?. Thankfully, Katrina Collier has already done that hard work for us through this book. The Robot-Proof Recruiter is an invaluable resource for recruitment professionals who still believe that authenticity beats algorithms. If youre struggling to maximize recruitment efforts in your organization or are looking to upskill your individual recruiting toolkit in a meaningful way, this is the book to pick up and implement.

Joey Price, CEO, Jumpstart:HR and co-host, WhileWeWere Working podcast

I didnt think it could get better, but the second edition of The Robot-Proof Recruiter is a must-read business book for the modern recruitment professional. Highly practical, enjoyable, pulling no punches, and engaging, this is a real page-turner. Read this book and become a recruiter worth talking to.

Louise Triance, Managing Director, UK Recruiter

Any recruiter who doesnt own a copy of The Robot-Proof Recruiter is doing themselves a disservice. In the world that we now find ourselves in, where the majority of our human-to- human interactions happen online, great recruiters are standing out from good recruiters by being more human. If you want to be a great recruiter, you need to own a copy of this book and read it regularly. I am amazed at how much more value Katrina Collier has squeezed into this second edition.

Vanessa Raath, global sourcing trainer and speaker, The Talent Hunter

The Robot-Proof Recruiter is a masterclass in understanding the modern-day recruiting process. Whether you are in an agency or in-house, have been recruiting for two weeks or 30 years, understanding the impact of technology, branding and candidate psychology is essential for success. Katrina Collier covers everything from building strong relationships with hiring managers to understanding how to create a community to generate referrals. Many have boldly claimed that technology will replace the recruiter and although technology has made some parts of recruiting easier, the truth is we are all human and that gives us the ability to remain robot-proof.
Katrina, thank you for writing this manual for success and bettering our recruitment community and industry! I will keep coming back to this resource over and over, as will many.

Joel Lalgee, lead recruiter and host of The Headhunter Hideout podcast

Today, more than ever, recruiters need to put humans first. Katrina Collier and her community of recruiters are dedicated to providing you the insight to do this! In our post-pandemic world, every recruiter has to rethink how they go about attracting new talent. As you will discover, its about engaging with people and communicating with candor. A must-read for new and experienced recruiters!

Hannah Morgan, Job Search Strategist, Career Sherpa and On Careers writer, US News & World Report

This is (still) gold! In the second edition of The Robot-Proof Recruiter, Katrina Collier proves again that she is the human advocate the recruitment industry so desperately needs. She speaks for candidates in a language recruiters understand, appreciate and dare not ignore.

Jim Stroud, talent acquisition innovator and author, and vlogger and podcaster via @JimStroud on Twitter

Recruitment was, is and always has been about human interactions. Yet more than ever the recruitment field is affected by various tools and by artificial intelligence. The second edition of The Robot-Proof Recruiter contains a ton of practical tips for recruiters and hiring managers on how to improve the candidate experience, communicate better with candidates and better use the technology advancements we have at our disposal. This book teaches recruiters about marketing, referrals and the power of social networks all of which are must-have skills for 21st-century recruiters and HR professionals. It is a great guide that will help recruiters implement these modern methods and tools in their work, well worth reading and rereading. Every time you do so you will discover something new.

Jan Tegze, Director, Talent Acquisition, Founder, Sourcing.Games and author of Full Stack Recruiter

Some people write books to become famous and others write them to educate an industry. I enjoyed reading the second edition of The Robot-Proof Recruiter because Katrina Collier actually cares about her readers and her part in the industry. If, like me, you believe youre at the top of your game, this book will make you think again its an education.

Troy Hammond, Founder and CEO, Talent Army

What I love about The Robot-Proof Recruiter is that Katrina Collier tackles what everyone in HR and TA thinks before they go to bed at night: where does the human leave off and where does the automation start? And vice versa. Every day, it seems like we learn something new that automation can do. But few people ask the tougher question: should it be done just because something can be done? Katrina tackles these issues systematically (pun intended) for the full spectrum of talent acquisition. And she does it masterfully. I read her book in two days, and it was my second time reading it. In my opinion, it should be required reading for everyone thinking about a career in recruiting.

William Tincup, President and Editor-at-Large, RecruitingDaily

For Derek Zeller, the truest of robot-proof recruiters. A lover of words, and a heart-centred soul who gave freely of his knowledge to improve the sourcing and recruitment profession. So busy helping others that he forgot to help himself. Even his passing is a lesson to us all. #TrueStory

I stared at my computer screen eagerly anticipating a response. It was late summer 1998 and I was mesmerized by this seemingly new ability to chat with people all over the world in an instant. I had heard that ham radio operators could communicate with operators in other countries, but not in the form of the actual chat that I was experiencing in real time with a friend in Australia. I was using a site that Id stumbled upon called TheGlobe.com , which was a social network site before the term social network even existed. I was somewhat of an early world wide web adopter think CompuServe and AOL and for years I had marvelled at being able to send messages via a new construct called email, and now was able to communicate, search for information and explore this web in the blink of an eye (or several blinks, depending on my modem speed). I was not quite sure how, but this www thing was going to change the world, I just knew it.

I was then startled by the unexpected ring of a phone, my phone. I answered and the receptionist informed me that I had a call on line two. A call on line two? It was not even 7am in the morning who could be calling the sales department more an hour before business hours started? I took a quick sip of coffee, shook off the interwebs and answered, much to the surprise of a real recruiter, the first I had ever encountered. I say real recruiter because all my other job search experiences were through networking, and I was talking to someone who cold called looking for a salesperson that had the ridiculous hour-plus before business starts work ethic. The recruiter, Eric, introduced himself and asked if I had ever heard of this thing they call the world wide web. I responded excitedly: Yes, Im logged on now, where do you want me to go? Eric directly me to OCC.com , which stood for Online Career Center and that basic cold call opened the door for me to a more technology-centric era of recruiting and hiring.