Step up your growth hacking game with this list of recruiters to follow in 2021. Observing these people already growth hacking recruitment will help you learn some of the tactics you need to become a growth hacking recruiter. We hope they can give you a little bit of inspiration for your own personal brand and show you cool growth hacking tricks you can use to hire more.

The Story Behind This List

One of the first pieces of content ever created for the Growth Hacking Recruiters was a list of people you should follow. Three years on and we thought it should be one of the first bits of content to revisit and share on our new website.

Observing experts is a great way to learn. If you are just starting to learn more about how to apply growth hacking tactics to recruiting the easiest way to learn is to learn by watching others. If you have been doing this a while then you definitely know this and can use this list to find new inspiration. Don’t steal their ideas or content, check out what they are doing add to it and use your personal flair to leverage the tactics they are using.

Influencer Lists are a great growth hack to attract attention and grow your audience. A growth hack every recruiter should learn to use. It was indeed one of the first ever growth hacks we used to get more attention for the growth hacking recruiter community on facebook. Its evergreen content that can be updated easily and takes little effort to create in the first place. And of course, it has a clever viral loop as we hope the people included mentioned here will give us a shout out when they see the list.

This is not a list of influencers; we have tried to avoid including the normal recruiting influencers to focus on recruiters you probably haven’t heard of. We chose those we feel will inspire you and help you learn something. Most of the people here may not even consider themselves Growth Hacking Recruiters. But, they are definitely applying growth hacking tactics and methodologies to grow their business, their brand and hopefully (its always tough to check) hire more.

What is a Growth Hacking Recruiter?

A Growth Hacking Recruiter applies the growth mindset, tools and techniques to grow teams effectively. They leverage their curiosity to solve complex recruiting problems. They make data lead decisions and use media and technology to hit hiring targets with minimal financial investment. Simply put, they help companies hire more with less.

Growth Hacking Recruiters can be found in all parts of the recruiting world Agency, Inhouse and Vendors. Some may no longer be recruiting, some may not even consider themselves growth hackers. What follows is a list of recruiters that we think show awesome technical knowledge, great marketing tactics and superb recruiting chops. These are the people we think you should be following in 2021. They will help you learn more about building your personal brand and how to growth hack recruitment.

How this list of growth hacking recruiters was created

We do not claim to have an excellent scientific method to creating this list. Instead, this is based on looking through several other lists that have been curated during the communities existence. The original list of growth hacking recruiter published in 2017 was our starting point. We compiled our favourites, got recommendations from the community and picked the ones we think you should follow for 2021. These are some of the people do great stuff while recruiting. We took into account;

• People who have made significant contribution to the Growth Hacking Recruiters Community on Facebook
• Recruiters voted by community member to appear in the list
• Those included in the Top Recruiters on YouTube List
• Tweets, specifically the people who appear on the Growth Hacking Recruiters and Best Tweeting Recruiters Lists.
• Contributions to the wider recruiting community.

The list is in no particular order and is without doubt missing many of the great people contributing to the growth hacking recruiter community. Please help us to keep this list fresh and up to date by continuing the conversation and submitting your favourite people to the list in the Growth Hacking Recruiters forum.

Growth Hacking Recruiters you Should Follow in 2021

Looking for more growth hacking recruiters to follow?

There are so many great recruiters out there that didn’t quite make this list. People that you should definitely be following but we know you have probably heard of them a bit more. Hung Lee, Katrina Collier, Matt Bradburn, Kasia Tang, Mark Lungren, Aaron Lintz, Kim and Gordon Lokenburg, Adam Gordon, Adam Karpiak, Denis Dinkevich, Joe Mullings, Shirley Almosni Chiche, Iwan Gulenko just to mention a few that didn’t make it to the list. Hopefully you already know most of these names and if not we will do our best to help you get to know them in 2021.

Want to know more, register for the growth hacking recruiter forum to see the entire list of people you should follow we have running in the community. If there are people we missed or info you think is wrong please drop us a comment.

If you got this far, thanks for reading and don’t forget to share this with your friends!