I have been meaning to write a commentary on #FailSafeHiring by Raghunath Ramaswamy for the last few days. But with some challenges on the health front and some lazy reasons I could not. And this deserves a focussed applause. Without doubt I would recommend the book as a mandatory read for anyone who is involved with #Talent Acquisition, not just the recruiter. It is so well laid out that chapters actually help address any challenge anywhere in the recruitment life cycle. The chapters are so well captioned, some simple and direct others, others almost tongue in cheek!! The book leaves virtually nothing untouched recruitment cultures, technological trends, social media. Brands apart from the fundamentals. Beyond HR and TA, I thought every line manager must browse through the book. After all they are the hiring manager and this can be a super coaching aid for them. As also for the thousands of candidates who want to be seen by the right recruiters some chapters at least stand out as a must read for them. I enjoyed the book... simple, provocative, nurturing and enabling. Congratulations Raghunath Ramaswamy!! Superb effort indeed.

Firstly, thank you for the opportunity to read through your book. I am pleased to share that it's written in a very free flowing, nice and easy way. I would recommend it for budding professionals and students alike as it is not often that you find recruiting related practice books like yours ... best wishes for your writing journey.

This book is a Comprehensive hand book that every recruiter across industries must Leverage to derive competitive advantage.

It helps a recruiterto know all the aspects of recruitment process and its pitfalls. In my opinion, it is a must read for all the recruiters.

An easy and elegant read On essentials of recruitment and talent Acquisition.

This is an invaluable compilation of best practices in recruiting. Must read for students aspiring to pursue a career in HR and recruiters either on the agency side or the employer side.

Fail-Safe Hiring' is a great read. Simple and easy. A comprehensive handbook. Perfect way to induct a recruiter and a solid text book for MBA HR.

Raghu has simplified a very Complex journey in a seemingly simple manner by putting together both the science and art of Recruitment.

Raghu has msterfully blended his immense experience as a career ceruiter with his analytical mind and crisp writing to deliver what can be called "A recruiter's Bible".

Raghu's book, Fail-Safe Hiring is a varitable sible not just for recruiters but also anyone involved in the hiring process. It is his palpable passion that has ensured that it is a masterpiece. He has looked at every angle and made sure that no aspect has been overlooked. A Yeoman service indeed. Thank you Raghu for ensuring that we deliver better and faster to our clients through this labour of love.

It is just not the experienced and uninitiated recruiter who will benefit from this book, there are vital insights for recruiting organizations as well.

If you want to be an expert at talent acquisition and know what the future entails, then go no further. Raghu gives you all the perspectives required in the most simplest of ways and his story telling techniques and real life examples, helps immensely in making it very interesting and relatable.

Fail-Safe Hiring addresses the real time needs of the industry. If taught at colleges it could create a sense of excitement about Talent Acquisition and encourage the best students to take up a career in Talent Acquisition.

This book is a must read for every recruiter, fresh or tenured. It has practical insights that you will not learn in a school and classroom!

Fail-Safe Hiring is as good as it can get. The go to book for recruitment and talent acquisition is both easy and elegant at once crackling with creativity and humour. Recruitment is all about Passion, Patience, Perseverance and Positive approach and who other than Raghu can articulate that better...!

The book is a clarion call for the recruiter's and recruiting organizations to reinvent themselves.

Recruitment is part science, part art, part left-brain, part right-brain, part fiction, part fact ... and Raghu covers all angles amazingly well in this book. Raghu puts his passion, vast experience and natural ability for story-telling to work- and the result is a book that lets the reader in on some ageless, old school "recruitment mantras" that every recruiter worth his LinkedIn subscription, would do well keeping on his/ her bedside table. Five stars!

Fail-Safe effectively spills the secrets of setting up a world class recruiting organization, in the most easy, relatable and unambiguous manner. Anyone associated with hiring, who invests their time reading the book, is destined to reap rich rewards.

Proud to have been Spectrum Consulting's first recruiter. I still remember the rigour with which we used to write Interview records, whenever we used to submit the resumes. Numbers never mattered. The way recruitment was done mattered. There were zillion experiments done to check how one could recruit better. Fail-Safe Hiring is the wisdom arising out of those experiments. No accident that it is a masterpiece.

As aptly captured by raghunath ramaswamy in his book, fail-safe hiring, gone are the days when recruiter picks up the phone, talks to the candidate completes the process and offer a job. Recruitment has moved from the usual hiring process to offering more 'personalized experience' ensuring candidate's deeper involvement. A smart recruiter is the one who possess strong 'sales mindset' and bridge the gap between demand and supply by offering the usps of the organization to the candidates. Raghu has beautifully articulated these nitty-gritties of talent acquisition in this gem 'fail-safe hiring'.

An easy read with practical tips on making your hiring decisions reliable.

The book "Fail-safe hiring" embodies what a recruiter goes through in the corporate world. The stories with cartoons express many recruitment conversations in a succinct manner. On one hand there are cryptic job descriptions or mysterious cases of 'dynamic job descriptions', on the other the hiring organization's expectations of a perfect candidate. This iniquitous expectations are captured, mixing humour and rigour in equal measure, between the opening 'curious case of a dynamic jd and a perfect summation in the climactic "The grand illusions of a purple squirrel and thereabouts". A must read book for all talent acquisition professionals

Fail Safe Hiring is a must read for all recruiters. It narrates very practical and useful case studies and helps increase recruitment effectiveness. Thank you Raghu for presenting the recruiter fraternity a wonderful "recruiter tool kit " BEST WISHES !