the best (free!) recruitment books to read on remote hiring in 2022

In the grand scheme of things, virtual hiring is still in its infancy. This book is for any hiring manager who has asked, "How can our virtual recruitment be improved?"

The answer: approach it with a combination of traditional recruitment best practices and remote-focused advancements. Virtual recruiting doesn't only equal Zoom calls, ATS, and collaboration software. It offers new opportunities for better hiring:

• Cast wider nets and create access for more candidates
• Use technology to confront biases and improve your diversity and inclusion
• Attract talent with the benefits of virtual recruitment, like increased freedoms for team members, new avenues for networking, and more transparency overall (in the best cases)

Of course, no virtual recruiting ideas succeed through wishful thinking. Review the implementation of these strategies and discover next steps when you dive into this recruitment book.

Is there a talent shortage, or is your brand simply not attractive to today's candidates? Well, talent is in shorter supply and higher demand these days. But why can't both problems be true?

This recruitment book is a roundup of strategies that have really worked. So on one front at least, your troubles might be over.

Learn why you should appeal to the modern candidate with the option for remote work and virtual jobs, or relocation opportunities. Once these options are in place at your organization, it'll be necessary to seed the market with news of your new value proposition.

1. Adequately prepare for this new category of the workforce and understand what you can now offer them
2. Use clear and transparent job listings meant to inspire and attract, not muddle the message and bamboozle prospects
3. Create content that shows new talent that even as a remote team member, they'll factor into your culture in large part — not as an afterthought

Then see how the best have successfully handled this hiring transition, from software companies like Atlassian and Trello to more consumer-facing products like Booking.com and Dell.

Your quickstart guide for the first step in any virtual recruitment process: the remote interview.

Video calls have become such a staple of the office landscape, it can be easy to forget not everyone has had the chance to get comfortable with them. You can set both yourself and your candidates up for success with a reliable game plan for. This is a quick but succinct read that breaks remote interviewing into three simple phases:

1. How you prepare for the meeting
2. How you engage your virtual interviewees
3. How you move forward

If you've yet to conduct your first video interview, try this book. Otherwise, you probably won't find much in this one for you.

Stop tracking your applicants and start managing your talent with this remote recruitment book aimed at engagement and activation. In today's hiring landscape, you'll find it's more important than ever to build a brand that really connects with candidates.

Lever outlines five simple steps to help your organization make a great impression:

1. Prioritizing long-term relationships and candidate loyalty
2. Adding real personality to your online recruiting footprint
3. Embracing transparency
4. Embracing personalization
5. And always keep your eye on the bigger picture

Although this one is a quick read, each section is accompanied by actionable tips and backed by real-world data. You'll be prepared to apply what you've learned in no time flat.

Hiring a one-off remote employee is a vastly different experience from virtual recruitment at scale. When you make a switch to fully remote hiring, it truly does require an organization-wide digital transformation. A shift in both thinking and approach.

This recruitment ebook touches on the whole remote employee experience: from sourcing and onboarding talent, to continued recognition for offsite team members, to the implementation of "microlearning" at each step of the way.

But not only will you learn to rework your remote recruitment from top to bottom. Fountain recommends the tools and best practices to facillitate it all — let it meet you where you're at. If you've already adapted parts of your hiring process to accommodate remote recruits, you can use these tools to start optimizing today.