Top 10 Most Influential Recruiting and Staffing People on Twitter

Readers of this blog know that I’m a big fan of utilizing social media along with staffing software. I did some digging recently and came up with the 10 most influential recruiters and staffers on Twitter as determined by the “jobs” category on WeFollow. Click on their names to get to their Twitter page.

1. Susan P. Joyce is the editor of Job-Hunt.org and an expert on online job searches.

2. Steven Feinberg also known as “TheJobsGuy,” is a corporate recruiter and social media specialist.

3. TwitJobSearch is simply well-used source of jobs with over 11,000 followers.

4. indeed is the Twitter outlet for the popular job search website. Kudos to them for expanding their reach.

5. Job Angels is the Twitter feed of Hiring for Hope, a surprising non-profit that matches employers to employees and offers personal assistance to those who are unemployed.

6. MonsterCareers is pretty self-explanatory. And their 20,000 followers show that they’re doing something right with their tweets.

7. LinkUp, to use their words, lists “only jobs found on company web sites. LinkUp’s jobs are always current, often unadvertised, and never fake!” Their tweets follow the same pattern.

8. tweetmyjobs is simply a conduit for getting the jobs you’re looking for sent to you via Twitter. Its 30,000+ followers suggest that it works quite well.

9. jobshouts connects job seekers and employers. Nothing special, but effective nonetheless.

10. ThomasShaw is an Australian recruitment and staffing expert, so he probably won’t help anyone find a job in the USA. But his understanding of the industry is top-notch – along with his tweets.

Who do you follow for recruiting and staffing? Let me know and perhaps I’ll follow up on this post.

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Comment by Max on July 16, 2011 at 5:04pm

Hi Tim!

It's a catchy title :)

Not sure if it makes sense to display the "jobs" category results on WeFollow.com when you're trying to identify the most influential "Recruiting and Staffing People". Moreover, some of these are BRANDS.

Here's how these Top 10 are measured by Klout : "The Klout Score is the measurement of your overall online influence. The scores range from 1 to 100 with higher scores representing a wider and stronger sphere of influence. Klout uses over 35 variables on Facebook and Twitter to measure True Reach, Amplification Probability, and Network Score."

K 64 Susan Joyce @JobHuntOrg (1) no change
K 60 Tweet My Jobs @TweetMyJobs (8) up
K 59 Monster Careers @MonsterCareers (6) up
K 52 Indeed @Indeed (4) no change
K 49 Steven Feinberg @TheJobsGuy (2) down
K 48 Thomas Shaw @ThomasShaw (10) up
K 47 Job Angels @JobAngels (5) down
K 46 TwitJobSearch @TwitJobSearch (3) down
K 39 Job Shouts @JobShouts (9) no change
K 39 LinkUp @LinkUp (7) down

Sadly, Karen Siwak @ResumeStrategy K 68, Margo Rose @HRMargo K 64 and Recruiting Animal @Animal K 64 are not on your list.

Thanks for sharing your digging results with us!

Cheers,

Max

jobsonica.com

Comment by Recruiting Animal on July 18, 2011 at 9:27am: Tim these automated lists are garbage. Anyone who is active on social media will tell you so.

Comment by Recruiting Animal on July 18, 2011 at 9:29am: There's my proof. When you ask a real person like Maxie, you get people who are not on the list.

Comment by Sandra McCartt on July 18, 2011 at 1:11pm: He who dies with the most followers may be surprised. 75% of them won't notice that he passed on.

Comment by Rebecca B. Sargeant on July 19, 2011 at 2:53am: Funny, I only follow one of the people on that list. Maybe the list old?????

Comment by Jerry Albright on July 19, 2011 at 8:38am: 7 of them are companies. None of them have influenced me (or anyone I know) in any meaningful way. If by "influence" this list suggests number or retweets or some other sort of ambiguous measure - it just goes to illustrate how absurd most of this social media back slapping really is..........

Comment by Tim Giehll on July 19, 2011 at 9:37am: Thanks for all the feedback! There is clearly no "right" source for any list like this and there are many ways to skin the cat.

I chose the "jobs"" category on WeFollow as it had the highest representation of employment related people, 2,454 versus 1,465 for "recruiter". I feel the "jobs category has a wider mix of contributors, many of whom we might not have thought of, but who in fact also provide a steady stream of relevant information to people in our space.

Jerry - To your point I'm not exactly sure of all the details of their algorithm for determining most influential but I do know that one of the factors is how many lists the person has been added to by others.

We Follow felt that if you were a valuable source of good information, people would be more likely to add you to a list. As you can see, number of followers has very little to do with being influential. Certainly not a perfect system but one we can all have fun with!

Thanks again for the feedback!