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Whether you’re an in-house or external recruiter, you have to stay up-to-date to set yourself up for success. Recruitment blogs are one of the best resources to learn the latest and hone your skills.
But which ones should you follow? We’ve compiled a list of 20 blogs on recruitment you should check out.
Let’s dive in.
Ongig
This is our blog, and we’ve heard it’s a great one! We write about the latest resources to help HR pros like you improve your hiring process and diversity hiring strategies.
And, we interview experienced heads of talent acquisition, recruiters, and DEI managers to add value to our content. Here are some blog categories you might find useful:
- Diversity and inclusion
- Writing job descriptions
- Employer branding
- Recruitment marketing
- Recruiting strategies
- and more
Here are some of our most-read recruitment blog posts:
- Job Titles: The Definitive Guide
- 5 Top Job Description Builder Tools
- 25 Examples of Awesome Diversity Statements
- How to Write a Job Description – Best Practices and Examples
- 25 Examples of Awesome Diversity Goals
- Internal vs External Recruitment: What’s the Ideal Hiring Strategy?
- 7+ Examples of Allyship in the Workplace
- The Power of “Pay Transparency” in Job Postings
- 10 Examples of Non-Inclusive Language
- 13 Top Recruitment Marketing Podcasts
Breezy Hire Learning
Breezy HR is a modern hiring and applicant tracking software. From their recruitment blog “Hire Learning,” you’ll find a goldmine of recruiting knowledge. This recruitment blog has:
- Hiring templates with 800+ interview questions, job descriptions, and more.
- Recruiting and hiring reports and statistics.
- Recruitment guides and ebooks.
- and a host of other topics on recruiting strategy & candidate experience
They also produce talent acquisition reports each year. Here’s their most recent report on navigating Hiring Hurdles in 2023.
Greenhouse
The Greenhouse blog offers tips on everything you might need to thrive in today’s competitive hiring landscape. They cover a whole range of subjects on:
- Structured hiring
- Hiring tech stack
- The recruitment industry
- Talent acquisition
- Interviewing
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion
They feature interviews from recruiters at top companies focusing on topics like inclusivity, unconscious bias, and more. And they also have a customer stories section that has real cases that show you how you can hire top talent.
ERE
The ERE blog brings together recruitment pros who offer advice on different topics in the recruitment space. They update their blog on a weekly basis and cover:
- Internal recruiting
- DEI
- The hiring process
- Other trending topics in the recruitment space
ERE also offers webinars sponsored by top recruitment companies like Lever and Gem.
Firefish
The Firefish blog has been for 10+ years and is read by over 15,000 recruiters. A team of ex-recruiters manages the blog. They focus on different recruitment topics like:
- Social recruitment
- Candidate outreach
- Data-driven recruiting
- Recruitment marketing
- and more
Fountain
The Fountain blog is packed with tips for volume hourly hiring, covering sectors like manufacturing and retail.
They also produce content about:
- DEIB
- Employer branding
- Sourcing
- Screening
Fountain also offers whitepapers, videos, guides, case studies, and webinars for a deeper dive into the topics.
Harver
Harver’s blog is helpful if you’re looking for tips on hourly hiring, volume recruiting, data-driven recruitment, or cost per hire. Their content comes in different formats:
- Books
- eBooks
- Podcasts
- Whitepapers
- Guides
- Case studies
They also cover hiring tips for different industries, including retail and healthcare.
Indeed
Indeed’s blog has a mix of short and long-form content. They also upload videos on the most asked hiring questions. Here are some of the top topics you’ll find in this recruitment blog:
- Job descriptions
- Sourcing employees
- Conducting interviews
- Employee onboarding
- The latest hiring trends
- Smart recruiting strategies
With hiring tips from the Indeed recruitment blog, you’ll learn how to become a better recruiter.
Lever
The Lever blog offers new insights on:
- Recruiting strategies
- Company culture
- Leadership
- Interviewing
- DEI
- Hiring best practices
Lever also interviews HR subject matter experts to add authority to their blog content and provide value for their readers. And they focus on the latest trends in the recruitment space, like quiet quitting and employee ghosting.
Linkedin Talent
The LinkedIn Talent blog is your source for strategies, inspiration, and tips for better hiring. Contributors and recruiters in different parts of the world offer recruitment insights from their experiences.
The blog focuses on subjects like:
- Recruiting tips
- Skills-based hiring
- Job descriptions
- Diversity
- Interview tips
- Work flexibility
They also list weekly top must-read articles that resonate well with other talent specialists.
Recruitee
The Recruitee blog is a must-read if you’re on the search for actionable recruitment strategies. They write tons of content on candidate experience, data-driven recruitment, talent acquisition, employer branding, D&I, and other related topics.
Recruitee also offers webinars, podcasts, and templates to dive more into the above topics. And they have a Facebook group to help you connect with other recruiters.
Recruiter Today
Recruiter Today publishes recruiting trends and tips for talent specialists. They cover a wide range of subjects like:
- Modern interviewing
- Organic recruitment
- Candidate experience
- The future of talent acquisition
- Skills-based hiring
- Data-driven recruiting
- Hiring trends
From their blog posts, you’ll learn how to humanize your talent acquisition process and hire qualified candidates.
Recruiting Gym
The Recruiting Gym blog focuses on tips and tricks for recruiters to improve hiring performance. Recruiting Gym is a learning, training, and performance platform for new and experienced recruiters to help them improve their hiring skills.
SHRM
The SHRM blog is a leading authority in HR. This blog has resources for heads of talent acquisition and recruiters written by HR pros and guest authors. They offer a mix of content like guides, handbooks, podcasts, and webinars.
Here are some recruiting topics covered in SHRM’s blog:
- Hiring trends
- DEI
- Candidate experience
- Interviewing
- Recruitment process and strategy
- Candidate attraction and sourcing
- Candidate evaluation
- Recruitment metrics and data
SocialTalent
The SocialTalent blog focuses on:
- Recruitment
- Interviewing
- Leadership
- Internal mobility
- Retention
- Diversity and inclusion
They also offer other formats of content like webinars, customer stories, and ebooks that dive deep into the topics listed above.
TestGorilla
TestGorilla is a pre-employment screening tests and assessments software company. Expect to learn how to give your candidates a smooth application process from their blog posts. And they publish content weekly.
Here are some subjects this blog covers:
- Skills-based hiring
- Remote hiring
- Hiring and recruiting
- Pre-employment screening
Undercover Recruiter
Undercover Recruiter is a talent acquisition and employer branding blog. This blog covers topics related to recruitment like:
- Employer branding
- Data-driven recruiting
- DEI
- Workplace culture
- Candidate experience
They also have an employer branding podcast that hosts top recruiters and HR professionals.
Vervoe
Vervoe is an AI-based skills testing platform. They specialize in producing weekly in-depth guides on skills-based recruitment. They cover topics like:
- Job descriptions
- Candidate experience
- Guide to skill testing
- AI recruiting
- Diversity recruiting
They also offer ebooks, whitepapers, and webinars.
Workable
The Workable blog has some of the most useful and actionable content for recruiters to improve the talent acquisition process. You’ll not only learn how to be a better recruiter but also how to sell your vacancies to top talent.
Their blog covers topics like:
- Candidate experience
- Candidate sourcing and attraction
- Candidate evaluation
- Recruitment metrics and data
- Recruitment process and strategy
- Digital transformation and hiring tech
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion
You’ll also find a podcast, webinars, and 1000+ hiring templates on their page.
Workest by Zenefits
Workest by Zenefits blog covers recruiting and retention tips weekly. They cover talent acquisition topics like:
- Candidate evaluation
- Candidate sourcing and attraction
- Candidate experience
- Recruitment metrics
- Recruitment process and strategy
- DEI
- Hiring trends
From their blog posts, you’ll learn how to hire top talent and keep them.
WHY I WROTE THIS:
Ongig’s mission is to support your commitment to writing inclusive job descriptions. Book a demo today to learn how you can achieve your recruitment goals with our Text Analyzer software.
SHOUT-OUTS:
- Skills-based hiring is on the rise (by Harvard Business Review)
- Recruitment metrics (by AIHR)
- Facebook group for recruiters (by Recruitee)
- Recruit organically: How to break the outside recruiter habit (by Forbes)
- The Breezy HR hiring challenges survey in 2023 (by BreezyHR)
