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Recruiter Skills for 2023

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What does a recruiter do?

Recruiters are responsible for filling job openings. They create hiring materials, search for candidates, head up the interview process, communicate job offers, and negotiate salary.

They work to ensure the satisfaction of company hiring managers as well as the happiness of each new hire. Recruiters may work in-house for one company or for several clients in an agency setting.

 

recruiter Skills Summary

Successful recruiters have hard skills related to hiring and human resources as well as important soft skills in the realm of communication and creativity.

The best recruiters have hard skills like recruiting, hiring, sourcing, staffing, networking, Excel, human resources, and customer service on their LinkedIn profiles and resumes. Full report below.

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Hard Skills

Hard skills are typically learned through education or work experience, such as proficiency with specific tools,
software or specialized processes.

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Top recruiter Skills Overall

The most common hard skills found across recruiter job descriptions.

recruiting
100
hiring
77
recruitment
71
sourcing
66
staffing
44
human resources
40
networking
32
recruit
29
excel
29
customer service
29

High Impact

Hard to Find recruiter Skills

Hard skills frequently found in the job descriptions that are less likely to
appear in recruiter LinkedIn profiles or resumes.

source candidates
100
industry experience
85
employment laws
68
continuous improvement
68
analytical
62
industry trends
60
talent acquisition
50
phr
49
coaching
49
employment law
48

Low Impact

Easy to Find recruiter Skills

Hard skills that are most likely to appear in both the job descriptions and
LinkedIn profiles or resumes.

C
100
business administration
51
cold calling
48
branding
43
Boolean
40
microsoft word
36
facebook
35
CRM
33
social media
32
human resource
32

Soft Skills

Soft skills are harder-to-measure interpersonal “people” skills important for leadership or collaborative
environments.

creative
innovative
leadership
vision
fast paced
fast paced environment
passion
best practices
communication skills
written communication

About this report

Jobscan helps job seekers tailor their resumes and LinkedIn profiles for each job opportunity through personalized skill and keyword matching, among other checks.

Our data science team analyzed over 100,000 unique Jobscan user resumes in addition to 8 million job postings from last year to identify the most common keywords and highest impact skills for Recruiters.

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