Updated: June 5, 2024
There are hundreds, if not thousands of recruiting blogs, available across the Internet. Sadly, most of them are dead, dying or simply not worth reading. Fortunately, there are a few diamonds in the rough and we’ve listed the top 23 here. Check out our list of the best recruitment blogs and add any of your favorites in the comments. If enough people recommend a specific one, we’ll add it the list.
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Recruiting Software Blogs
Greenhouse
Greenhouse is one of the hottest applicant tracking systems on the market, which should not come as a surprise if you check out their blog. Typically publishing one new post per week (and sometimes more), the Greenhouse blog tackles recruiting from every angle imaginable. The blog’s greatest strength is its diverse set of opinions. Not content to just post what they themselves know, the Greenhouse team scours the Internet for guest posts from the best and brightest minds in recruiting.
Helpful tip: If you like what you see, sign up for the The Modern Recruiter newsletter to get their latest posts sent straight to you on a bi-weekly basis.
Recruitee
Recruitee, developers of an industry-leading applicant tracking system, doesn’t just know how to code. They can write too! This blog has it all including tips on employer branding, HR tech and talent sourcing. One of the best aspects of this blog is the mix of how-to’s such as this post on How to create a career site with more touchy-feely subjects such as How to improve the candidate experience.
Lead with Indeed
Indeed is one of the biggest players in the job market, let alone the recruiting industry and you might not think that this 800 pound gorilla would be putting out useful content on their recruitment blog. Think again.
For a recruiting blog run by a large corporation, Indeed’s posts are surprisingly valuable. They have a newsletter that delivers exclusive articles, videos, and insights and write insightful blog posts using their abundance of data (their post on the future of work from a worker’s perspective is quite good). Their past articles are also sorted by topic area, making it easier to find the exact studies or advice you need.
Social Talent
Social Talent is an Irish startup that provides online and social media training to the recruitment industry so it is no surprise that they also excel at sharing their knowledge in blog form. Over the past ten years, this content marketing juggernaut has produced over 1,650 articles on a recruiting blog that spans the breadth of the recruiting world. Signing up for their email list is a great way to stay on top of the latest news in the industry and of course, their social media posts are a great way to learn about how to use social media to up your recruitment game.
Juice
Juice is a provider of highly engaging courses for recruiters so it should be no surprise that their blog content also lives up to their high standards. While the blog isn’t updated as often as it used to be, the quality of the posts still makes it well worth reading. As for the topics, they cover a wide range but have a focus on technology and online learning, two areas that are beneficial for the modern-day recruiter to understand.
Lever
Lever’s main focus is developing an industry-leading ATS but they also find the time to create a blog on recruiting that has some outside-the-box takes. While there are plenty of articles on recruiting favorites such as interviewing and sourcing, there are also more unconventional thoughts on topics such as using design thinking to create recruiting metrics. As a data nerd myself, my favourite category is data-driven recruiting, a topic that is discussed with ever-increasing frequency but still not given the prominence it deserves.
CareerPlug
The CareerPlug blog is focused on helping non-HR people hire better; we’re talking anyone from small business owners to franchise operators to people who have never even heard the term “candidate experience” before. If hiring isn’t your primary job duty, CareerPlug is the blog for you. In fact, they require every one of their employees to become certified Hiring Experts so you don’t have to be. The advice they share is practical and actionable, all taken from their proven hiring playbook they’ve spent years perfecting.
Firefish
Written and managed by a team of ex-recruiters, the award-winning Firefish blog is bursting with recruitment posts, ebooks, and industry reports to help you recruit to your full potential. Read by over 15,000 recruiters each month, blog topics include agency management, business development and marketing tips.
Harver
As a company, Harver offers tools for talent acquisition pros to improve their candidate assessment, interviewing, reference checks, and hiring process. On their blog, they share innovative recruitment and HR strategies, with a strong focus on data-driven recruitment and automation tools. While they don’t post on a regular schedule, you can expect to find 2-3 new posts on the site each week.
Workable
Workable isn’t just a recruitment blog. They aim to provide resources for HR pros in a range of areas, but many of these are focused on talent acquisition and can be just as valuable for recruiting agencies as they are for in-house human resources teams. This includes case studies like this interview with Casio Senior HR Executive Samantha Vallins on how the company transformed its hiring process, along with posts on candidate sourcing, candidate experience, and AI in hiring.
Helpful tip: Along with their blog, make sure to check out Workable’s templates, guides, and reports. These span every aspect of hiring, from job description templates to interview kits, salary profiles, and onboarding checklists.
Personal Recruiting Blogs
WizardSourcer – Jonathan Kidder
Jonathan Kidder, a.k.a. the “WizardSourcer,” is a top-ranked technical talent sourcing recruiter, staffing expert, and corporate trainer who assists organizations of all sizes in identifying and attracting top talent. He is a wizard at harnessing the power of social networking, Boolean strings, search aggregators, deep web searching, scrapers, and other advanced technology tricks and tools. In 2015, he founded a recruiting blog called WizardSourcer.com which has become one of the leading knowledge resources for recruiters online. His mission is simple: to help recruiters and talent sourcers stay up-to-date on the latest sourcing trends within our community.
Boolean Strings – Irina Shamaeva
Irina Shamaeva is a legend in the world of sourcing and for good reason – she’s one of the absolute best. What’s even more impressive than her sourcing skills is her willingness to share what knows so openly.
Whereas most people horde their knowledge and give it away only if you pay them, Irina recognizes that the best way to drum up new business is to show the world exactly how good you are. With titles like The Complete Guide to X-Raying LinkedIn and Google Introduces before: and after:, there’s no question that her posts are not for the faint of heart. But if you’re willing to sit down and go slowly through what Irina is sharing, there’s no question you’ll come out on the other side as a better recruiter.
The Super Source Me Blog
Super Source Me is the blog run by recruiting trainers Karolina Latus and Kasia Tang. Never heard of them before? Until recently, neither had I. But despite their lack of name recognition, you should be reading what they have to say. Why? Because they know their stuff. Most of their posts have actionable advice and even those that don’t are a fun read. While I can’t vouch for any of the services they are selling, I can say that their posts suggest they might be good value, too.
The Savage Truth – Greg Savage
After 40 years in the industry, when Greg Savage talks, recruiters listen. The founder of four successful recruiting businesses, this advisor to the recruiting industry puts out posts on a variety of topics, ranging from recruitment stats and figures to more intangible subjects like how to build candidate trust. With a list of categories so long that it took me five seconds to scroll to the bottom, you can be certain you’ll find something that is relevant to you.
HR Bartender
The blog of HR pro turned consultant Sharlyn Lauby, HR Bartender isn’t exclusively devoted to recruiting but that is one of its primary areas of focus, and you can easily view just the posts related to recruiting and retention. Posts often focus on timely topics, such as the recent article about new employee benefits rules, interspersed with more evergreen advice.
Katrina Collier Blog
After more than 20 years in the recruiting industry, Katrina Collier has some valuable insights to share and her blog is a great place to find them. New posts don’t come out quite as often as with some of the other blogs on this list, usually around 1-2 a month, but they more than make up for in quality what they lack in quantity. The posts combine an honest, entertaining, and sometimes snarky voice with insider insights, so you can both enjoy reading them and learn something in the process.
Recruiting Publications
SourceCon
Despite its name, SourceCon is not just a conference focusing on sourcing. It’s also a repository for a surprisingly large number of articles on this niche topic. The beauty of this blog is that it focuses on actionable articles rather than fluffy pieces. With prosaic titles like “The Wonderful World of Chrome Extensions” and “Targeting Location to Search on LinkedIn”, this site is clearly about substance over style.
Helpful tip: If this blog appeals to you, check out the sourcing tools available in Tools For Recruiters: The Complete List.
Recruiting Blogs
If you want a hub for all things recruiting, this is where you need to go. Featuring at least one new post per day, a monthly podcast and a list of conferences and articles on recruiting tools, Recruiting Blogs, which is technically an aggregation of multiple recruitment blogs, is a comprehensive source for all things recruiting.
How do they put out so much high-quality content? The site allows anyone to write a post but carefully reviews each one to ensure that they meet the site’s standards.
The Undercover Recruiter
The Undercover Recruiter is a prolific content machine, releasing a plethora of insightful pieces on an impressively frequent basis. The blog focuses on all sides of the recruiting business with articles that meet the needs of people in the job market, HR professionals and full-time recruiters. They are able to cover this much ground by sourcing articles from a diverse set of backgrounds.
Helpful tip: You can use the menu and search function at the top of the page to find the articles that are the right fit for you.
TalentCulture
The TalentCulture blog never rests with content on a range of topics being released on a daily basis. Founded by Meghan M. Biro, the TalentCulture mission is to “connect and engage professionals who want to understand and shape the human aspects of business” and this recruiting blog is just one part of the TalentCulture site that fosters that goal. With a regular podcast as well as webinars, ebooks, a newsletter, and other helpful content, TalentCulture helps recruiters and other talent specialists stay on top of their game.
ERE
This site may be old (founded in 1998, it may just be the first of the recruitment blogs) but it is not yet showing its age. From the same company that brought you SourceCon, ERE Media, ERE is your hub for opinion pieces on the state of the industry and where things are headed.
Helpful tip: The front page makes it look like there is a very limited amount of content available. This is not the case. There are actually many more posts that are available within hidden category pages. The categories of a post are listed in blue boxes underneath the title. You can click on these to see a full list of articles on that topic.
Recruiter Magazine
Based in the UK, Recruiter Magazine posts a variety of helpful content on their blog in between releases of their print issue. While their “News” section will be of most use to recruiters who work in the UK, the “Knowledge” area of their blog is more broadly applicable across locations. These include interviews with successful recruiters, opinion pieces, and articles on topics ranging from AI in recruitment to neurodiverse recruitment.
Helpful tip: If you’re looking for more in-depth learning, check out their free webinars. New ones aren’t released that frequently (about once every six months), but the ones already on the site cover a range of valuable topics.
LinkedIn Talent
It’s no surprise that the largest professional social network also has one of the best recruitment blogs on the internet. The LinkedIn Talent blog promises tips, strategies, and inspiration to hire and develop talent, and that’s exactly what the posts deliver. Articles are sorted into more than 40 topicsranging from technical advice on AI, talent analytics, or applicant tracking systems to core recruitment topics like diversity, candidate experience, and skills-based hiring. You’ll of course also find useful tips on how to best use LinkedIn to source and connect with candidates.
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