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The Career Journey
of a Recruiter
You are a recruiter. A talent warrior. A needle-in—haystack finder.
A candidate-whisperer. And it wasn't easy to get there.
We looked at the profiles of over 100K recruiters on Linkedln.
Here are the most common career paths from college student
to recruiting master.
It starts with school
Most common university majors
Psychology
1 Bllsiiiess
2 Marketing
Human
3 Resollrces
4 Sociology
5
Your firstjob
Top past jobs before becoming a recruiter
5
Reserirr ll
4
3 Support
Administrative
2
Operations
Sales
You have arrived — recruiter land
The most popular certifications recruiters get are
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Lin e In
Certified , , . .., 3
Professional
Recruiter Certified Internet
2
Professional in
Human Resources
The fastest growing skills of recruiters
Training Customer Onboarding Applicant Internet
Professional Service Specialist Tracking Systems Recruiting
There are more women than men in recruiting
60% 40%
Female Male
Most recruiters have 10+ years of work experience
Where will you go next?
As they progress in their careers, recruiters tend to become:
Choose
Recruiting 8: your own
HR leaders adventure
Top
Search firm executive
leaders recruiters
Linkedfl Talent Solutions
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Methodology We analyzed the profiles of 10OK+ Linkedln members who identufied
themselves as recruiters. We calculated the fastest growing skills by looking at the most
popular new skills recruiters added since Jan 2014.