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Recruiter resume example

Recruiters live on numbers: hires, time to fill, offer acceptance and quality of hire. Lead with them, name the roles you recruit for, and show the tools and channels you use.

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Recruiter resume summary example

Technical recruiter with 5 years hiring engineers and product people for high-growth startups. Made 140 hires in two years with a 32-day average time to fill and a 91% offer-acceptance rate.

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Experience bullet examples for a recruiter

  • Hired 140 engineers, designers and PMs in two years as the company grew from 120 to 300
  • Cut average time to fill from 51 to 32 days with structured intake and sourcing sprints
  • Maintain a 91% offer-acceptance rate through candidate experience and compensation guidance
  • Built a diversity sourcing programme; women in engineering hires rose from 18% to 34%
  • Placed 60 candidates in IT and finance roles for 25 client companies
  • Ranked top 3 of 15 recruiters for placements in 2021

Each bullet starts with an action verb and ends with a result. That is what separates an achievement from a job description.

Skills for a recruiter resume

Full-cycle recruitingTechnical sourcingBoolean searchLinkedIn RecruiterGreenhouse ATSInterview process designOffer negotiationEmployer brandingDiversity hiringHiring manager partnership

Keywords that appear in recruiter job postings

Applicant tracking systems match your resume against the posting. These terms recur in real recruiter listings, use the ones that are true for you, in the posting’s own wording.

recruitingtalent acquisitionsourcingfull-cycle recruitingATSinterviewingLinkedIn Recruiteroffer negotiationemployer brandingdiversityhiring managerstime to fill

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Tips for writing a recruiter resume

  1. Hires, time to fill and offer-acceptance rate are the headline metrics.
  2. Say which roles and levels you recruit for.
  3. Diversity and candidate-experience results are increasingly valued.

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What skills should I put on a recruiter resume?

List the specific skills the job posting asks for that you genuinely have. For recruiter roles, common ones include Full-cycle recruiting, Technical sourcing, Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse ATS, Interview process design, Offer negotiation, Employer branding.

How long should a recruiter resume be?

One page for most candidates. Two pages only if you have many years of directly relevant experience and every line earns its place.

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