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Naïlé Titah
Career advice is everywhere on LinkedIn: we count 13,985 career development posts in the last 12 months in our dataset alone. Almost all of them pass unnoticed. The typical career development post earns 49 likes.
So who actually lands when they talk careers, jobs and growth? At MagicPost, we took the 239 creators in our dataset who post about career development consistently (at least 10 career development posts in the last 12 months, minimum 5,000 followers) and ranked them by median likes on their career development posts alone. Not their overall fame: what happens, today, when they hit publish on this specific topic. Number twenty earns 13 times the typical career development post. Number one earns 75 times it.
Two numbers you will not find anywhere else sit in each profile below: the share of feed (is career advice their whole identity or an occasional theme?) and the vs-overall figure: whether their career posts earn more or less than their own usual median. Spoiler: for 14 of these 20, career development out-earns everything else they write.
The full board first, then the countdown:
TL;DR: We ranked the top 20 LinkedIn creators on Career Development by one number nobody else publishes: median likes on their career development posts alone, over 12 months and 239 creators. Dora Vanourek leads with 3,665 median likes per career development post, 75x what the typical career development post earns (49 likes).
#20 · Jahnavi Shah, 620 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
97k | 620 | 19 | 23% | +66% | 0.64% |
Jahnavi Shah is an AI, tech and career content creator and a LinkedIn Top Voice based in the United States. Career development is 23% of her feed, and those posts earn 66% more than her overall median, the second-biggest premium of this top 20. Her best post of the year is a graduate's job-search playbook.
"If I were graduating today, I'd stop spending hours scrolling job boards. Every job has thousands of applications." 2,665 likes. Read it
#19 · Dan Mian, 643 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
150k | 643 | 34 | 32% | -26% | 0.43% |
Dan Mian is a career coach and two-time LinkedIn Top Voice based in the United Kingdom, founder of the graduate-jobs platform Gradvance. Career development is nearly a third of his feed, the largest share so far in this countdown, though those posts earn 26% less than his overall median. His most liked one of the year is the rawest kind of career story.
"Some job offers are more dangerous than rejections. Taking the wrong job almost broke me." 14,044 likes. Read it
#18 · Ryan Yockey, 698 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
148k | 698 | 15 | 4% | +19% | 0.47% |
Ryan Yockey coaches high performers building businesses on LinkedIn, and grew from 1,200 to 140k followers in a single year. Career development is just 4% of his feed, yet those rare posts beat his overall median by 19%. His best one is a checklist for knowing when to leave a job.
"Every Job Should Level You Up. The best career moves don't just pay you more. They make you more valuable." 4,166 likes. Read it
#17 · Jean Kang, 704 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
284k | 704 | 26 | 10% | +85% | 0.25% |
Jean Kang is a tech creator and founder, formerly at LinkedIn, Meta and Figma. Career development is 10% of her feed and carries the biggest premium of this entire top 20: 85% above her overall median. Her card shows a steady decline in raw medians, from 2,311 in 2024 to 609 in 2026, even as the theme keeps over-earning for her. Her best post of the year is a defense of job hopping.
"Just because you fit, doesn't mean you belong. I'm a proud job hopper. Job hopping changed my life." 4,289 likes. Read it
#16 · Tim Denning, 724 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
592k | 724 | 22 | 9% | +22% | 0.12% |
Tim Denning is an Australian writer with over a billion content views, teaching high performers to build digital businesses. Career development is 9% of his feed and earns a 22% premium over his usual median. His best post of the year is a contrarian take on playing it safe.
"The safe career path is the riskiest decision you'll ever make. Playing it safe guarantees you'll die with regrets." 1,671 likes. Read it
#15 · Véronique Barrot, 769 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
126k | 769 | 10 | 5% | +39% | 0.61% |
Véronique Barrot is a LinkedIn strategist for women leaders, based in the United Kingdom. Career development is only 5% of her feed, the joint-lowest share of this top 20, on the smallest posting volume here (10 posts), yet it earns a 39% premium. Her best post of the year reframes the job hunt around health.
"A paycheck means nothing if your health pays the price." 2,143 likes. Read it
#14 · Thomas Pearce, 835 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
95k | 835 | 17 | 13% | +52% | 0.88% |
Thomas Pearce co-founds LeverBrands and posts on personal branding and career growth from the United Kingdom. Career development is 13% of his feed, earns a 52% premium, and runs on the highest engagement rate of this top 20 (0.88%). His best post of the year is his own job-search origin story.
"Back in early 2024, I really struggled to get a job. I had the qualifications, but no one gave me a shot." 6,430 likes. Read it
#13 · Reno Perry, 850 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
578k | 850 | 135 | 42% | -7% | 0.15% |
Reno Perry is founder and CEO of Career Leap, helping senior individual contributors and people leaders land high-salary roles. He is the volume record of this top 20: 135 career development posts in 12 months, far more than anyone else here. The data shows the cost of that pace: his career posts earn 7% less than his overall median, and his yearly medians slid from 1,721 in 2024 to 800 in 2026.
"Your career path isn't meant to be perfect. It's meant to be uniquely yours." 7,621 likes. Read it
#12 · Gary Vaynerchuk, 894 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
5.9M | 894 | 22 | 2% | +38% | 0.02% |
Gary Vaynerchuk owns the biggest audience of this ranking by far: 5.9 million followers (we profiled him in his data biography). Career development is just 2% of his 1,062-post year, the lowest share of this top 20, yet those posts earn a 38% premium over his overall median. His best one is vintage Gary: a blunt nudge to do something tonight.
"If you hate your job, tonight, instead of doing whatever you normally do for 4 hours, go on LinkedIn and email 100 people." 7,276 likes. Read it
#11 · Dr. Miro Bada, 918 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
381k | 918 | 18 | 14% | -10% | 0.24% |
Dr. Miro Bada is a doctor who posts on career and personal growth in the United States. Career development is 14% of his feed and earns slightly less (10%) than his overall median. His best post of the year challenges hiring orthodoxy.
"99% of jobs can be taught (if you give people a chance). Your education doesn't define you." 2,825 likes. Read it
#10 · Ryan Roslansky, 929 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
906k | 929 | 11 | 12% | +13% | 0.10% |
Ryan Roslansky, CEO of LinkedIn, posts about career development on home turf: the platform he runs. It is 12% of his feed and earns a 13% premium over his usual median. His best post of the year marks the book he co-wrote on navigating uncertain work.
"Somewhere young entrepreneur Ryan is pretty stoked right now. Adult Ryan is pretty stoked, too." 1,742 likes. Read it
#9 · George Stern, 1,002 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
378k | 1,002 | 27 | 7% | -9% | 0.26% |
George Stern is an entrepreneur and CEO, formerly at McKinsey, who posts daily tips on thriving at work and in life. Career development is 7% of his feed and earns 9% less than his overall median, and his yearly figures dipped from 1,319 in 2025 to 956 in 2026. His best post of the year is the list format the category loves.
"16 harsh career truths. Don't wait to learn them the hard way." 2,054 likes. Read it
#8 · Thomas Tsangaras, 1,020 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
125k | 1,020 | 38 | 22% | -6% | 0.82% |
Thomas Tsangaras guides careers and relocations from Switzerland as founder of Follow Your Heart. Career development is 22% of his feed, the second-largest dedicated share in this top 20, and the posts earn 6% less than his overall median. His best post of the year is a fresh-start message for the new year.
"Kicking off the new year with a clean shot. Whether you're leaving a company after many years, relocating to a new place, or making a bold career move." 4,069 likes. Read it
#7 · Andrew Bolis, 1,084 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
234k | 1,084 | 25 | 9% | +9% | 0.46% |
Andrew Bolis is an AI and marketing consultant and former CMO. Career development is 9% of his feed and earns a 9% premium over his overall median, with his yearly medians climbing from 709 in 2024 to 738 in 2025. His best post of the year is interview-prep advice.
"Your resume got you the job interview. But your answers decide what happens next." 3,044 likes. Read it
#6 · Will McTighe, 1,362 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
439k | 1,362 | 12 | 4% | +86% | 0.31% |
Will McTighe is a B2B marketing creator, and the purest "tourist" of this ranking: career development is just 4% of his feed, the joint-lowest share of the top 20, yet those rare posts earn 86% more than his overall median, the single biggest premium here. When a marketing audience gets a candid career take, it shows up in force.
"Messy Career? Read this. When we look at our LinkedIn feed, everyone's career looks perfect. A straight line to success. But there is so much that we're all hiding." 3,870 likes. Read it
#5 · Melissa Grabiner, 1,777 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
496k | 1,777 | 58 | 50% | +30% | 0.36% |
Melissa Grabiner is a resume writer and talent acquisition consultant who helps job seekers land interviews. She is one of only two creators in this top 20 whose feed is at least half career development (50%), and she pairs that focus with a 30% premium and high volume (58 posts). Her best post of the year is a message of encouragement for job seekers.
"This is my wish for everyone seeking a new opportunity. Keep going, keep networking and know this time will NOT last forever." 9,034 likes. Read it
#4 · Jalonni Weaver, 1,920 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
417k | 1,920 | 41 | 13% | +17% | 0.46% |
Jalonni Weaver is a recruiter and TEDx speaker in the United States. Career development is 13% of her feed and earns a 17% premium, and her data shows a climb from a 1,812 median in 2025 to 2,210 in 2026. Her best post of the year is a prayer for job seekers that became the most liked post in this entire top 20.
"I pray that February will be the month you get a job offer. I pray that February will be the month you finally land the interview." 11,346 likes. Read it
#3 · Juhi Bhatia, 1,939 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
229k | 1,939 | 39 | 21% | +4% | 0.85% |
Juhi Bhatia is a global talent acquisition expert and human-first recruiter based in the United Arab Emirates. Career development is 21% of her feed, earns a 4% premium, and runs on the second-highest engagement rate of this top 20 (0.85%) despite the smallest audience of the top 4. Her best post of the year is a recruiting story with a turn.
"A woman kept messaging me on LinkedIn for 2 months, asking for an opportunity. As much as I wanted to help, I genuinely had no relevant role for her." 5,829 likes. Read it
#2 · Rob Dance, 2,416 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
373k | 2,416 | 14 | 6% | -14% | 0.65% |
Rob Dance is CEO and founder of ROCK, based in the United Kingdom. Career development is only 6% of his feed and earns 14% less than his overall median, the one creator in the top 3 whose theme posts under-earn his usual content; his audience came for something else and still pushed him this high. His card shows a sharp rise, from a 1,108 median in 2025. His best post of the year reframes slow progress.
"People often want quick proof that their hard work is paying off. A pay rise. A promotion. A better title. And when those things do not come quickly, it is easy to believe the effort means nothing." 7,390 likes. Read it
#1 · Dora Vanourek, 3,665 median likes per career development post
Followers | Median likes (career development posts) | Career development posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
458k | 3,665 | 12 | 3% | +79% | 0.80% |
Dora Vanourek tops this ranking and earns one of three theme crowns she holds across this series. An executive advisor based in Canada, formerly at IBM and PwC, she devotes just 3% of her feed to career development, yet those posts earn 79% more than her overall median, and 75 times the typical career development post on LinkedIn, on only 12 posts in 12 months. Her best post of the year reframes the meaning of changing jobs.
"Changing jobs doesn't mean you're unstable. It means you're brave enough to admit you want more. Too often, career moves are seen as betrayals." 7,353 likes. Read it
Where do these cards come from? Every figure on this page runs on MagicPost's LinkedIn analytics: median engagement per theme, share of feed, theme premiums, trajectories, across 239 career development creators and 13,985 career development posts. It works on your profile too, including a side-by-side with anyone on this list.
Just missed the cut
Five names land right behind, and they say a lot about how this ranking works. Hala Taha (#21, 589 median likes per career development post), Meera Remani (#22, 575) and Alex Freberg (#23, 547) miss the cut by a handful of likes of median. Then come Brian Golod (#24, 534), one of the few here whose feed is half career development (50% focus), and Loren Rosario-Maldonado (#25, 514), who closes the list on the smallest audience of the five (32k followers) and an 85% theme premium. Publish a little more, hit a little harder, and any of the five enters the top 20 at the next quarterly refresh.
The efficiency champions (pound for pound)
Raw likes favor big audiences, so here is the other cut: engagement rate on career development posts, median likes divided by followers (minimum 20k followers). The list changes completely:
Creator | Followers | Engagement rate | Median likes (career development) |
32k | 1.59% | 514 | |
24k | 1.37% | 325 | |
23k | 1.24% | 286 | |
95k | 0.88% | 835 | |
229k | 0.85% | 1,939 |
The champion is Loren Rosario-Maldonado, an executive leadership coach: a 1.59% engagement rate on her career development posts, well ahead of the field, on the smallest audience of this efficiency five. Thomas Pearce and Juhi Bhatia are the only two creators in both the absolute top 20 and this efficiency top 5.
The volume game (total career development engagement)
One more cut: not the typical post, but the total likes generated on career development posts over 12 months. This is where the high-frequency voices get their due:
Creator | Total likes on career development (12 mo) | Career development posts |
135,123 | 135 | |
126,644 | 58 | |
101,410 | 142 | |
98,809 | 41 | |
84,995 | 39 | |
81,781 | 146 | |
57,943 | 140 | |
54,427 | 34 |
Reno Perry generates the most total engagement, but it takes him 135 posts to do it; Melissa Grabiner reaches nearly the same total in 58, and Jalonni Weaver lands fourth on just 41. Volume builds reach, but it is not the only road to it.
The conversation champion
The ratio of comments to likes, the cut nobody publishes. The career development record belongs to Ehsan Ali: 134 median comments against 126 median likes on his career development posts, more than one comment per like when the platform norm is closer to one per ten. A career strategist for senior IT professionals, he turns every post into a discussion.
The residents and the tourists
Of the 239 creators who post career development consistently, only 28 dedicate more than half their feed to it. This top 20 splits the same way: there are almost no residents at the top. Melissa Grabiner (50% of her feed) is the most dedicated name in the ranking, with Dan Mian (32%), Thomas Tsangaras (22%) and Jahnavi Shah (23%) the only others above a fifth. The rest are tourists: Dora Vanourek (3%), Gary Vaynerchuk (2%), Will McTighe (4%) and Véronique Barrot (5%) all build their feeds around something else.
The data behind that tourist premium is consistent: an audience that did not sign up for career advice still rewards a clear, honest career post, while full-time career feeds compete with themselves. Will McTighe (+86%), Jean Kang (+85%) and Dora Vanourek (+79%) carry the three biggest premiums of the ranking, and all three keep career development under a sixth of their output. If you write about careers occasionally, you are playing the easier game.
Two related studies while you are here: who dominates LinkedIn country by country (United States, Canada, the full series), and the creators who define every other theme on the platform. And if your plan includes showing up in these creators' comments, an engagement feed makes that a daily five-minute habit.
Study them, then study yourself. With MagicPost you can analyze any career development creator the way we just did (median engagement by theme, share of feed, premiums, trajectory) and benchmark your own profile. The data on this page is the product.
Where this data comes from
Everything in this article is MagicPost's own research, not a copied list. MagicPost analyzed 13,985 career-development-themed LinkedIn posts from the last 12 months, kept the 239 creators with at least 10 career development posts and 5,000 followers (deleted posts excluded, company pages excluded), and ranked them by median likes on their career development posts. We also computed each creator's share of feed, their career development premium versus their own overall median, engagement rates and conversation ratios. Rankings refresh as the data does; figures dated June 2026. No one paid to be on this list, and no one can: it is arithmetic.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the top career development creator on LinkedIn in 2026?
By real impact (median likes on career development posts over the last 12 months), Dora Vanourek: 3,665 median likes per career development post, more than 50% ahead of the number two (Rob Dance) and 75 times the typical career development post on LinkedIn.
How is this ranking calculated?
Median likes on each creator's career-development-themed posts over the last 12 months, among the 239 creators MagicPost analyzes with at least 10 career development posts and 5,000 followers. Median, not average, so one viral post cannot buy a spot, and only career development posts count, so general fame cannot either.
Does posting about career development boost engagement on LinkedIn?
For most of this top 20, yes: 14 of the 20 earn more on their career development posts than their own overall median, with premiums up to 86% (Will McTighe). The effect is strongest for "tourists" whose feed is mostly about something else. But the typical career development post still earns just 49 likes: the topic rewards honesty, not participation.
Who are the most efficient career development creators?
By engagement rate on career development posts (median likes / followers, minimum 20k followers): Loren Rosario-Maldonado (1.59%), ahead of Alexandre Ducros (1.37%), Bhanu Singh Yede (1.24%) and Thomas Pearce (0.88%).
Are the top career voices full-time career creators?
Mostly not. Only 28 of the 239 eligible creators dedicate more than half their feed to career development, and just one of them, Melissa Grabiner, reaches the top 20. The ranking is dominated by tourists, from executives like Gary Vaynerchuk and Ryan Roslansky to marketing creators like Will McTighe, for whom career advice is an occasional post, not the whole identity.
Which countries dominate career development content on LinkedIn?
This top 20 is led by the United States (eleven creators), with the United Kingdom placing four (Rob Dance, Thomas Pearce, Véronique Barrot, Dan Mian), and Canada, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and Australia (Tim Denning) one each. Country-by-country rankings are in our country series.
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