23 Must-Read Recruitment Blogs to Keep Up with the Industry

When it comes to keeping up on the latest industry news, recruitment blogs provide a wonderful opportunity to glean knowledge from peers. Learning from others can help you improve your job performance and advance your career as a recruiter.

With over 600,000 million choices in the blogosphere worldwide, we thought it would be useful to find the best blogs on recruiting, hiring and sourcing and compile them in one place.

Without further ado, here are 23 must-read recruitment blogs to keep up with the industry.

#1 Boolean Black Belt

http://booleanblackbelt.com/

Glen Cathey’s long-running blog is the ultimate resource for all things sourcing and recruiting. Start with the Free Resources tab for 100 of Glen’s most valuable posts.

#2 Lever

https://www.lever.co/blog/

The Talent Innovation Blog from Lever offers fresh insights on recruiting strategies, hiring best practices and company culture.

Source: Lever Blog

#3 Recruiting Brainfood

https://www.recruitingbrainfood.com/

Hung Lee curates the most interesting and relevant recruiting content delivered to your inbox, once a week. Recruiting Brainfood has emerged as the ultimate industry newsletter for the talent business.

#4 Social Talent

https://www.socialtalent.com/blog

Led by founder Johnny Campbell, the Social Talent recruitment blog features cutting edge content delivered by a dynamic group of individuals whose mission is to change the future of work.

#5 Jan Tegze

https://tegze.eu/

Sourcing meets recruitment on this recruitment blog hosted by Recruiting Leader Jan Tegze. Jan is also creator of the viral Sourcing.games.

#6 Google Hire

https://hire.google.com/articles/

Though the Google Hire product was short lived, thankfully the blog lives on. It is a treasure trove of relevant articles around recruiting, interviewing, metrics and more.

#7 Career View by Maisha Cannon

https://maishacannon.com/

Global Talent Sourcing Manager and Keynote Speaker Maisha Cannon shares her observations as a Recruiter turned Sourcer on her Medium hosted recruitment blog. Check out the Q&A features and the 30-Day Sourcing Series.

Source: Career View by Maisha Cannon

#8 TextExpander

https://textexpander.com/blog/

TextExpander’s blog houses a wide array of recruiting articles for teams large and small. From the main blog, search by the keywords recruiter, recruiting or sourcing to find relevant tip and tricks.

#9 Aline Lerner

https://blog.alinelerner.com/

Aline’s views on recruiting are uniquely valuable since they come from a Founder’s perspective. Her engineering foundations combined with her startup recruiting experience guides her writing and shapes her perspective.

#10 Amazing Hiring

https://amazinghiring.com/blog/

The Amazing Hiring recruitment blog features interviews with practitioners, best practices, and even recommendations on the best recruiting conferences to attend.

#11 SourceCon

www.sourcecon.com

SourceCon is a daily blog where sourcers and recruiters can exchange knowledge and insights about sourcing best practices.

#12 Kasia Tang

https://kasiatang.com/en/the-blog/

Kasia is an international sourcing and recruiting trainer. She enjoys sharing her vast insights about sourcing, social media, branding and a lot more.

Source: Kasia Tang

#13 Recruiting Daily

www.recruitingdaily.com

With a network over 100K strong, RecruitingDaily.com is a long-running recruitment blog that aims to provide meaningful information to recruiters worldwide.

#14 Jim Stroud

http://www.jimstroud.com

Over the past decade, Jim Stroud has built an expertise in lead generation strategies, social media recruiting, and online research. On his award-winning blog, you’ll find articles on job search, recruiting, technology and more.

#15 Mettl

https://blog.mettl.com/

Mercer Mettl’s mission is to enable organizations to build winning teams. Their recruitment blog features insights across two key areas – talent acquisition and development.

#16 Smart Recruiters

www.smartrecruiters.com/blog

Featuring innovative posts like ‘The Rise of Reverse Recruiting’ and ‘Recruiting KPI Dashboards: Measuring Data that Truly Matters,’ Smart Recruiters blog pushes the envelope and challenges you to think outside the box.

#17 Cut and Polish by Gem

https://blog.gem.com/

Gem’s new but growing recruitment blog features recruitment insights, ideas and best practices in addition to CRM product news.

Source: Cut and Polish by Gem

#18 Denis Dinkevich

https://medium.com/@SourcingDenis

Talent Sourcing Fellow and technology enthusiast Denis Dinkevich’s blog is rich with practical and pioneering advice on sourcing and recruiting.

#19 Entelo

https://blog.entelo.com/

Entelo’s blog features quality, relevant recruiting and hiring posts. There’s even a sub-blog featuring engineering recruiting advice and information.

#20 Recruiting in Yoga Pants

https://www.recruitinginyogapants.com/

According to Amy Miller, recruiting is easier when you’re wearing comfy pants. Unfiltered and raw insights on the day to day life of a corporate recruiter are what you can expect from this Senior Recruiter’s recruitment blog.

#21 Yello

https://yello.co/blog/

Well organized into candidate experience, sourcing, diversity and inclusion and recruitment operations, Yello’s blog reaches 7,000 subscribers who receive bi-weekly recruiting tips.

#22 Workable

https://resources.workable.com/author/askarecruiter/

Workable’s Ask a Recruiter blog series features real recruiters answering questions about talent acquisition, hiring and sourcing.

#23 Joel Cheesman

https://www.ere.net/author/joel-cheesman/

Joel Cheesman has over 20 years experience in the online recruitment space and shares his thoughts on the ERE blog.

Which of these blogs do you find most helpful as you work through your day-to-day challenges? Share your favorites in the comments below!