27 Recruiting Experts on Twitter You Need to Follow

To paraphrase Ferris Bueller: recruiting news moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop to check it out once in a while, you could miss it.

As a recruiting professional, you know the industry is changing rapidly.

From new recruiting trends like gamification and video hiring, to advanced features in applicant tracking software, and buzzwords like ‘candidate experience’ now, more than ever, you need a real-time source of recruiting industry information.

And there are few platforms quite as real-time as Twitter.

With over 350,000 tweets sent every minute, the social networking tool is a powerful fire hose of information.

But to get the right information, you need to follow the right people.

Below, I’ve compiled the top 27 recruiting experts on Twitter you need to follow if you want to keep up-to-date with your profession and the fast-moving recruiting world.

These experts were selected based on number of followers, the relevance of their actual tweets to recruiting, and how much I liked them.  They are broken out by individuals, and then publications/organizations.

Experts

@animal

Recruiting Animal, Host of “Recruiting Animal” recruiting podcast

@Fishdogs

Craig Fisher, Director of Talent Marketing for CA Technologies

@greg_savage

Greg Savage, Founder of Firebrand Talent Search, People2People and Recruitment Solutions

@jimstroud

Jim Stroud, Author of Resume Forensics, Host of “It’s All Recruiting” podcast

@Josh_Bersin

Josh Bersin, Founder of Bersin by Deloitte

@KevinWGrossman

Kevin Grossman, VP at the Talent Board

@kris_dunn

Kris Dunn, Founder of Fistful of Talent and The HR Capitalist

@kwheeler

Kevin Wheeler, Chairman of the Future of Talent Institute

@LevyRecruits

Steve Levy, Founder of Recruiting Inferno

@LouA

Lou Adler, Author of Hire With Your Head

@MeghanMBiro

Meghan Biro, CEO of Talent Culture

@TheRecruiterGuy

Chris Hoyt, Founder of CareerXroads

@shally

Shally Steckerl, Author of The Talent Sourcing and Recruitment Handbook

@sharlyn_lauby

Sharlyn Lauby, Founder of HR Bartender blog

@SteveBoese

Steve Boese, HR Technology Conference Chair, Host of “HR Happy Hour” HR podcast

@williamtincup

William Tincup, HR consultant and CEO of Tincup & Co.

Publications and Organizations

@blogging4jobs

Blogging4Jobs blog network and online publication, founded by @jmillermerrell

@ERE_net

ERE.net online publication

@FistfulOfTalent

Fistful of Talent group talent management blog

@HireOnSocial

Social Hire recruiting agency and blog

@hrbartender

HR Bartender blog

@theHRDIRECTOR

theHRDIRECTOR Magazine

@HRdotcom

HR.com publication and social network, founded by @dmcgrath

@RecruitingBlogs

Recruiting Blogs content network

@TalentCulture

TalentCulture blog

@TalentMgtMag

Talent Management Magazine

@UndercoverRec

Undercover Recruiter blog

Bonus:

@CapterraHRtech

Capterra’s own awesome account focused on recruiting technology, HR, and talent management

More?

There are a ton of great recruiting influencers on Twitter.  What insightful experts did I miss?  Any funny accounts you’d recommend?  Add them in the comments!