High-Tech High-Touch Recruiting - 2nd Edition by Barbara Bruno (Paperback)

About the Book

Use this practical guide to develop a strategy of retaining the best talent. You need to blend "high-tech" candidate search tools with traditional "high-touch" relationship-based recruiting methods.

Book Synopsis

Deliver better hiring outcomes by combining AI-powered recruiting with trusted human connection.

High-Tech High-Touch Recruiting is a guide for mid-career recruiters, talent acquisition professionals and HR managers who must attract, hire and retain high-calibre talent in an AI-accelerated hiring market. Written by global recruiting expert Barbara Bruno, this updated edition shows how to integrate advanced recruiting technologies with high-touch relationship-building skills to reduce early attrition, strengthen alignment and improve long-term placement success.

Combining modern AI-enabled recruiting tools with a consultative, candidate-first approach, the book equips recruiters to move beyond transactional hiring and operate as trusted advisors and strategic partners to clients and candidates alike.

You'll learn how to:
- Combine AI recruiting tools with high-touch relationship building
- Shift from transactional recruiting to trusted advisor status
- Improve alignment to reduce early attrition and mis-hires
- Use interview intelligence and predictive search effectively
- Build candidate trust, negotiate confidently and retain top talent

With practical frameworks and real-world examples, High-Tech High-Touch Recruiting helps recruiters deliver stronger hiring outcomes, increase client confidence and build lasting talent relationships in a rapidly evolving recruitment landscape.

Themes include: AI recruiting, talent acquisition strategy, consultative recruiting, candidate experience, recruiter productivity, hiring technology

About the Author

Barbara Bruno is a globally recognized recruiting expert who has trained more than 25,000 recruiters across 13 countries. Based in Crown Point, Indiana, she advises many of the world's leading recruiting and staffing organisations. Through her company, Good As Gold Training and H&R Search, she delivers practical in-person and virtual training programmes used throughout the industry.