Top 20 LinkedIn Creators on Recruiting (2026)

#20 · Kumud Deepali Rudraraju, 223 median likes per recruiting post

Kumud Deepali Rudraraju builds authority on LinkedIn for founders and executives and works as a fractional recruiter. She posted 484 times in 12 months, so her 10 recruiting posts, exactly our floor, are 2% of her feed, the smallest share in this top 20.

Those posts earn 61% less than her overall median of 576 likes, the steepest discount on the page.

"As a recruiter and business owner, I'm happy to announce... ...that I take bets." Her most liked recruiting post of the year opens the way the number one's best post does, then lists the candidates other employers pass over: 889 likes and 244 comments. Read it

#19 · Adam Karpiak, 244 median likes per recruiting post

Adam Karpiak writes resumes and job search strategy from a recruiter's point of view. With 583k followers he is the second-biggest account in this top 20, and his 0.04% engagement rate ties Roberta Storey's for the lowest.

He also ranks #5 in our social media ranking.

"if rejection emails were honest" His most liked recruiting post of the year opens on a five-word premise in lower case and nothing more: 1,954 likes and 96 comments, 8 times his median. Read it

#18 · Thibaut Roudaut, 255 median likes per recruiting post

Thibaut Roudaut offers job candidates a free guide to getting hired, and is #9 in the recruiters ranking. He posted 421 times in 12 months; his 51 recruiting posts make him eighth on total recruiting likes.

His audience rarely replies: 13 median comments, the second-lowest count in the top 20.

"J’ai EMBAUCHÉ une de mes alternantes en CDI à la fin de son contrat." His most liked recruiting post of the year, a hiring decision told from the employer's side before the objections it drew: 2,381 likes against 15 comments, about 9 times his median. Read it

#17 · Carolyn Christie, 260 median likes per recruiting post

Carolyn Christie helps founders hire without paying contingency fees. She is #5 in the recruiters ranking and #11 in our sales ranking.

Her readers talk back: one comment for every three likes, the second-highest ratio in this top 20. Counting her 2026 posts alone, her recruiting median is 248 likes.

"I’m going to be one cocky SOB in this post." Her most liked recruiting post of the year is the smallest best post on this page and still drew 213 comments to 531 likes. Read it

#16 · Mister Manu Victor, 261 median likes per recruiting post

Mister Manu Victor relays work-study and internship openings for students on LinkedIn and TikTok. Recruiting fills 20% of his feed, 53 posts, and he is #7 in the recruiters ranking.

Numbers open 55% of his hooks, and his hooks run 21 words on average, the longest among the top-20 creators we hold writing data for. He also ranks #12 on education.

"Le GROUPE M6 lance officiellement sa campagne d’alternance !" His most liked recruiting post of the year relays one employer's work-study campaign to students, the format his feed runs on: 2,004 likes, nearly 8 times his median. Read it

#15 · Adam Broda, 262 median likes per recruiting post

Adam Broda, a former hiring manager at Amazon and Boeing, coaches senior and executive candidates toward better-paid jobs. With 518k followers he is the third-biggest account in this top 20.

His recruiting posts earn 31% more than his overall median, and his readers comment more than anyone else's here relative to likes: 89 median comments, about one for every three likes.

"Here are 25 LinkedIn creators who frequently post about open roles and new opportunities" His most liked recruiting post of the year sends readers to other people's feeds: 1,031 likes and 153 comments. Read it

#14 · Karolina Severova, 274 median likes per recruiting post

Karolina Severova is a senior talent acquisition specialist in the United States who also runs brand partnerships. She posted 60 times in 12 months, and her 10 recruiting posts, exactly our floor, earn 208% more than her overall median, the second-largest premium in the top 20.

Her 27,040 total recruiting likes, sixth in the volume table, rest mostly on a single post.

"Yesterday I made an offer to someone who is unemployed for a fully remote role, with a higher salary than they requested." Her most liked recruiting post of the year, and the biggest single post on this page: 23,936 likes and 833 comments, about 87 times her median. Read it

#13 · Alexandre Ducros, 285 median likes per recruiting post

Alexandre Ducros founded Cab à Talents, a recruitment firm for fintech, wealthtech and private-equity-backed companies in France and Luxembourg. His 76 recruiting posts are the second-highest count in this top 20, and his 0.94% engagement rate ranks third in the efficiency table below.

He writes the longest posts among the top-20 creators we hold writing data for, 313 words on average. He is #6 in the recruiters ranking and #13 in our fastest-rising creators ranking.

"On encourage les gens à se reconvertir. Puis on leur reproche de l’avoir fait." His most liked recruiting post of the year takes on how hiring treats career changers: 830 likes and 133 comments. Read it

#12 · Carlos Stella, 308 median likes per recruiting post

Carlos Stella manages communities and events in Argentina and writes about organic marketing and personal branding. Recruiting takes 10% of his feed, 11 posts out of 106.

His audience likes and moves on: 7 median comments, the lowest in the top 20, about one comment for every 44 likes.

"Si estás en búsqueda laboral únete a este grupo privado de WhatsApp" His most liked recruiting post of the year is a Monday meme with this single line under it: 3,529 likes and 64 comments, more than 11 times his median. Read it

#11 · James Mahy, 356 median likes per recruiting post

James Mahy is a software developer in the UK, and his recruiting posts are reports from his own job search. Those posts earn 465% more than his overall median of 63 likes, by far the largest premium in the top 20.

On 28k followers, his 1.29% engagement rate ranks second in the efficiency table below.

"Job / Interview update!" His most liked recruiting post of the year, a candidate's progress report between interview rounds: 737 likes and 54 comments. Read it

#10 · Jesse Geul, 357 median likes per recruiting post

Jesse Geul, a former police detective, now trains recruiters and speaks on recruitment. He is #10 in our Netherlands ranking.

Recruiting fills 19% of his feed, and those posts earn 36% more than his overall median. Counting his 2026 posts alone, his recruiting median is 291 likes, under his 12-month figure.

"Om te solliciteren vragen ze een motivatiebrief plus cv." His most liked recruiting post of the year, a 'vacature roast' that takes apart a driver job ad found in a local paper: 1,138 likes and 182 comments. Read it

#9 · Anna Chernyshova, 395 median likes per recruiting post

Anna Chernyshova is a job search coach and two-time founder who helps job seekers turn interviews into offers. She is also #9 on HR.

Her recruiting posts earn 16% less than her overall median, but her audience replies: 104 median comments, the third-highest count in the top 20.

"3x more resume reviews completed every single week since May." Her most liked recruiting post of the year reports on her own team's AI assistant rather than giving job search advice: 962 likes and 97 comments. Read it

#8 · Roberta Storey, 397 median likes per recruiting post

Roberta Storey has written resumes for 25 years through Storeyline Resumes. With 1.1 million followers she is the biggest account in this ranking, and she published 857 posts in 12 months, the most in the top 20.

Her recruiting median went from 491 likes in 2025 to 401 in 2026. She is also #11 on HR and #13 on storytelling.

"Hire the overqualified candidate." Her most liked recruiting post of the year speaks to employers rather than to the job seekers she writes for: 3,844 likes and 202 comments. Read it

#7 · Emmanuel Valencia, 481 median likes per recruiting post

Emmanuel Valencia is a headhunter and HR consultant in Mexico. He posted only 53 times in 12 months, the fewest in this top 20, and 17 of those posts are on recruiting: a 32% share, the second-highest here.

He is #3 in the recruiters ranking, where all his posts count.

"Si solo estuviste 1 año o menos eres 'inestable'." His most liked recruiting post of the year lines up the labels a CV gets for any tenure, from one year to ten: 2,128 likes and 168 comments. Read it

#6 · Brian Golod, 544 median likes per recruiting post

Brian Golod helps senior tech professionals move to better-paid jobs. He makes the list on 10 recruiting posts, exactly our floor, and is #5 in our Canada ranking.

His best post earned only 1.7 times his median, the smallest gap in the top 20: his rank rests on an even run of posts.

"LinkedIn 'experts' tell you to optimize your About section. Recruiters don't read it." His most liked recruiting post of the year, profile advice built on what recruiters skip: 905 likes and 70 comments. Read it

#5 · Michael Erhard, 547 median likes per recruiting post

Michael Erhard left Amazon to run operations for e-commerce brands as a COO. With 21k followers he is the smallest account in this top 20, and his 2.55% engagement rate leads our recruiting pool among accounts of 20k followers and more.

He also draws the most comments here, 172 median, and numbers open 60% of his hooks. Counting his 2026 posts alone, his recruiting median rises to 643 likes.

"If you’re hiring internally: Don’t invite 7 people to apply if they have no real shot" His most liked recruiting post of the year, a list of don'ts for internal hiring: 1,167 likes and 164 comments. Read it

#4 · Michel Khoury, 605 median likes per recruiting post

Michel Khoury writes in French about personal branding, communication and emotions at work. He published 613 posts in 12 months, so 18 on recruiting are 3% of his feed, and those earn 43% more than his overall median.

His posts are the shortest among the top-20 creators we hold writing data for, 55 words on average. He is also #12 on HR.

"Derrière chaque CV, il y a une histoire que personne ne lit." His most liked recruiting post of the year is addressed to recruiters: 2,788 likes and 174 comments. Read it

#3 · Juhi Bhatia, 784 median likes per recruiting post

Juhi Bhatia is a global talent acquisition specialist and founder based in the United Arab Emirates. Her 84 recruiting posts are the most in this top 20, a third of her feed, and they put her first on total recruiting likes.

Her recruiting median fell from 2,076 likes on 18 posts in 2025 to 590 on 75 posts in 2026. Those posts earn 45% less than her overall median.

She is #1 in the recruiters ranking, which counts everything she posts, and #3 in our UAE ranking.

"Congratulations, your resume has been shortlisted." Her most liked recruiting post of the year walks through a hiring process one congratulation per stage: 7,524 likes and 165 comments. Read it

#2 · Jalonni Weaver, 862 median likes per recruiting post

Jalonni Weaver is a talent consultant who teaches LinkedIn personal branding. She published 514 posts in 12 months, 57 of them on recruiting, and those earn 49% less than her overall median of 1,674 likes.

She appears in eight other theme top 20s and is #20 in our United States ranking.

"I’m excited to share that today is my first day as a Talent Acquisition Consultant at National Life Group!" Her most liked recruiting post of the year is a real job announcement, the format that the #1 and #20 borrow for their own best posts: 8,034 likes and 1,582 comments, the most comments on this page. Read it

#1 · Melissa Grabiner, 1,673 median likes per recruiting post

Melissa Grabiner, a resume writer, talent acquisition consultant and co-founder of the career coaching company 1Yes, tops this ranking with 1,673 median likes per recruiting post, about 46 times the typical recruiting post we measured and about twice Jalonni Weaver at #2.

Her recruiting posts earn 59% more than her overall median, and her audience replies: 155 median comments, the second-highest count in the top 20. She is also #3 on HR and #10 on career development.

Our creator classification files her as a coach, not a recruiter, so she is absent from the recruiters top 20 and sits #11 in our coaches ranking.

"As a recruiter, I'm happy to announce who I love to hire: People who were laid off." Her most liked recruiting post of the year, a mock announcement listing the candidates she would hire: 8,450 likes and 595 comments, 5 times her median. Read it

Where do these cards come from? We computed every figure on this page from public posts with MagicPost's LinkedIn analytics: median engagement per theme, share of feed, premiums and engagement rates, across 223 recruiting creators and 10,353 of their posts. It works on your profile too, including a side-by-side with anyone on this list.

Which recruiting creators just missed the top 20?

Five names sit right behind the cut, all within 15 likes of number twenty:

Daniela Luque Díaz (#23) holds 553k followers, more than anyone in the top 20 except Roberta Storey and Adam Karpiak, and posted 1,088 times in 12 months, 2% of it on recruiting. She is #3 on education.

Jessica Hernandez (#21) earns 55% more on recruiting than her own overall median. Jonathan Whipple (#24) is #14 in the recruiters ranking, and Biaggio Triassi (#25), #12 in Canada, gets a median of one comment per post.

Which LinkedIn recruiting creators have the highest engagement rate?

Raw likes flatter the largest followings, so divide by reach: engagement rate on recruiting posts, median likes divided by followers (20k followers and over).

Michael Erhard (#5) leads by a wide margin, and the first three are the three smallest accounts in the top 20. Lakshmi Marikumar gives recruiting half of her 22 posts, one of the 16 creators in the pool who give it that much.

The top 20 itself runs from Michael Erhard's 2.55% down to 0.04% for Roberta Storey and Adam Karpiak. For how this theme compares with other subjects, see our study of LinkedIn engagement rate by topic.

Which recruiting creators get the most total likes on LinkedIn?

One more cut counts the total likes on recruiting posts over 12 months, where frequent posters gain ground:

Juhi Bhatia leads on 84 posts, more than 26,000 likes ahead of Jalonni Weaver. Joel L. comes fourth on volume alone: 148 recruiting posts, the most in this table, without making the top 25. He is #20 in the recruiters ranking.

Chenae Erkerd (90 posts, #13 among recruiters) is the other name outside the top 25. Karolina Severova takes sixth on 10 posts, almost all of it from one.

Which LinkedIn recruiting creator gets the most comments per post?

This cut divides comments by likes. The record in our recruiting pool belongs to Colleen Paulson, who writes about executive careers, ageism and job search: 139 median comments against 114 median likes, more comments than likes.

Sanchit Shangari (about one comment per like) and Shulin Lee (seven for every ten likes, #2 in our Singapore ranking) complete the podium, counting creators with 100+ median likes.

None of the three makes the top 25. The typical top-20 creator gets about one comment for every nine likes; Carlos Stella (#12) gets one for every 44.

Are the top LinkedIn recruiting creators full-time recruiting voices?

No. Of the 223 creators who post on recruiting consistently, only 16 give it at least half their feed, and none of them makes this top 20. The highest shares here are Juhi Bhatia's (33%) and Emmanuel Valencia's (32%).

At the other end, Kumud Deepali Rudraraju (2%), Michel Khoury and Michael Erhard (3% each) touch the theme only now and then.

Focus does not predict the premium. James Mahy gives recruiting 4% of his feed and earns 465% more on it; Kumud Deepali Rudraraju gives it 2% and earns 61% less. Twelve of the twenty earn more on the theme than their own overall median.

Recruiters and headhunters make up part of the list. Next to them:

• Resume writers: Melissa Grabiner, Roberta Storey, Adam Karpiak

• Job search coaches: Anna Chernyshova, Brian Golod, Adam Broda

• A recruitment trainer

• A relay of student job offers

• An operations executive

• A developer looking for work

Nine of the twenty are based in the United States and four in France, then one each in the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Argentina. Country by country rankings: France, the full series.

And if showing up in these creators' comment sections is part of your plan, an engagement feed keeps it to a five-minute daily habit.

How does recruiting compare with HR and career development on LinkedIn?

Each of our theme rankings counts only the posts tagged with its own theme, so the pools differ. Recruiting has the lowest typical post of the three:

Seven creators of this top 20 also rank on HR, among them Melissa Grabiner (#3 there), Juhi Bhatia (#4) and Jalonni Weaver (#5). Those three also make the career development top 20.

The theme moves the same creator a long way: Melissa Grabiner's median is 2,822 likes on HR posts against 1,673 on recruiting.

The recruiters ranking linked at the top works differently. It takes the 166 people our classification files as recruiters, with 30 posts or more, and ranks them on median likes across everything they post. This page takes anyone with 10 recruiting posts and counts those posts only.

Six names make both top 20s. Juhi Bhatia is #1 there on 1,430 median likes across all her posts and #3 here; Emmanuel Valencia is #3 there and #7 here. Carolyn Christie, Alexandre Ducros, Mister Manu Victor and Thibaut Roudaut complete the six.

These rankings show who gets read on hiring. For the search itself, from the candidate's side, see how to find jobs on LinkedIn.

How we ranked the top LinkedIn recruiting creators

All of this is MagicPost's own research. We went through 10,353 recruiting posts from the last 12 months and ranked 223 creators by median likes on their recruiting posts.

Only creators with at least one post in the last 60 days are ranked. The method:

• Floors: at least 5,000 followers and 10 recruiting posts in the window; deleted posts excluded.

• Median rather than average: no single viral post can buy a place.

• Recruiting posts only: each post gets a theme from our own classification, and only those posts count.

• Recruiting posts analyzed: the posts our dataset holds per creator, sometimes fewer than they published.

• Per creator: share of feed, premium over their own median, engagement rate and comment ratio.

Ten of the top-20 medians rest on 20 recruiting posts or fewer, three of them on exactly 10. Rankings refresh as the data does. No placement here was sponsored; every rank comes straight from the median.

Study them, then study yourself. With MagicPost you can analyze any recruiting creator the way we just did (median engagement by theme, share of feed, premiums, engagement rate) and benchmark your own profile against the pool. The data on this page is the product.