BOOK • MODERN RECRUITING
Hiring Humans
A practical guide to modern recruiting, candidate experience, and human-centered hiring—built for teams navigating automation and AI without losing trust, clarity, or conversion.
If your hiring feels harder than it should…
- Candidate drop-off, ghosting, and low response rates
- Automation that creates friction instead of speed
- Inconsistent hiring experience across recruiters, managers, and tools
- Processes that look efficient but don’t improve hiring outcomes
Who this book is for
Talent acquisition leaders
Recruiters & sourcers
HR / People Ops
Employer brand & recruitment marketing
HR tech & services leaders
Hiring Humans helps you redesign hiring to be clearer, more consistent, and more human—so you can improve trust, reduce friction, and increase conversion from apply → interview → hire.
What you’ll get
- Human-centered hiring frameworks you can apply immediately
- Where automation helps vs. hurts (with practical guidance)
- Better candidate experience without slowing down the process
- Alignment across recruiters, hiring managers, and technology
- Clear actions for improving conversion and completion
- Language you can use with executives and stakeholders
- Examples and “what to do Monday” moves
- A grounded, realistic view of AI’s role in hiring
What’s inside
Candidate Experience
Reduce friction, rebuild trust, improve completion.
Recruiting Operations
Make the process consistent, measurable, and scalable.
Human + Automation
Balance efficiency with empathy and outcomes.
Employer Brand Impact
How hiring experience shapes reputation and conversion.
Praise for Hiring Humans
Few people on this planet have the depth and breadth of experience across all facets of hiring as Craig Fisher. Hiring Humans is both inspirational and actionable, and will leave readers with a wealth of ideas to help them hire successfully in the new world of work.
His extensive experience and skill are evident in Hiring Humans as he hits bullseye on all the targets that keeps job seekers and recruiting professionals up at night. Great advice, a quick read and a must for every library.
Despite Craig's marquee-studded career, he approaches hiring humans (the book and the concept) with incredible thoughtfulness and practicality. It's a quick and easy read and perfect for taking notes in!
Amazing book for Talent Acquisition Leaders! Craig understands what it takes to get your recruiting function to world-class. It’s an enjoyable read that will leave you full of ideas!
This is a must read for all TA professionals, and especially for those that are truly interested in improving TA performance. This book isn't a tool, it's a weapon in the TA arsenal!
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FAQ
What is Hiring Humans about?
It’s a practical guide to improving recruiting outcomes by designing hiring experiences that are clear,
consistent, and human-centered—even when automation is involved.
Who should read Hiring Humans?
TA leaders, recruiters, HR/People Ops, employer brand teams, and HR tech/services leaders who want better conversion,
less friction, and more trust in hiring.
How is it different from Paint Your Store?
Hiring Humans is the strategy and hiring philosophy.
Paint Your Store is the execution: career site experience, job content, employer brand,
and attraction/conversion improvements.