r/Recruitment is a subreddit with 25k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses recruitment, hiring, recruiters, candidates, and job, and they frequently recommend/review ats, crm, and crm/software.
**Please check the sub rules before posting.**
This is the ideal place to discuss recruitment tips/advice, strategy, process, systems/tools, or just have a whinge about that last offer falling over.
This community is open to all stakeholders, including candidates, agency recruiters, HR/internal recruiters, hiring managers, and recruitment system developers.
If you're actively looking for jobs to apply to, or you're a recruiter looking for somewhere to post a job advert, checkout r/hiring
Popular Themes in r/Recruitment
#1
Advice Requests
: "What is the best way to handle this?"
20 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "LinkedIn Recruiter at $100k+ is not worth it. Any alternatives?"
10 posts
#3
Money Talk
: "3rd party recruiting - Anyone pay for fastpeoplesearch or white pages premium accts, etc.?"
3 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "I made a portfolio/ resume website for recruiters to skim through my profile as fast as possible"
2 posts
#5
Pain & Anger
: "Lost an £24,000 placement this year because of my own memory. Anyone else struggle with this?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/Recruitment
#1
Recruitment
: "The Recruitment system is broken and why nobody wants to talk about it honestly?"
107 posts
#2
Hiring
: "What red flag did you ignore when Hiring that came back to bite you?"
76 posts
#3
Recruiters
: "After tech layoffs, what are Recruiters pivoting their careers to?"
57 posts
#4
Candidates
: "What do you do with Candidates who are clearly overqualified?"
38 posts
#5
Job
: "Multiple Recruiters/Recruiting Agencies for one Job?"
31 posts
#6
Interview
: "What’s the most unusual Interview question you’ve seen actually work well?"
26 posts
#7
Interviews
: "I feel like my Interviews cause instant death of family members."
15 posts
#8
Recruiting
: "Advice for a Sales Engineer looking to go into Recruiting?"
15 posts
#9
Struggling
12 posts
#10
Agency
: "In-house or Agency. Which side of recruitment are you happier on right now?"
12 posts
Products Discussed in r/Recruitment
Ats
96 reviews
#1
Recruit CRM
4.5★ from 11 reviews
#2
Loxo
3.7★ from 7 reviews
#3
Manatal
4.0★ from 6 reviews
Crm
24 reviews
#1
Recruit CRM
4.2★ from 5 reviews
#2
Bullhorn
4.3★ from 3 reviews
#3
Loxo
4.3★ from 3 reviews
Crm/software
11 reviews
#1
KarioDrive
5.0★ from 3 reviews
#2
RecruitCRM
4.7★ from 3 reviews
#3
Rapha
4.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/Recruitment
#1
Other
: "Culture fit is doing a lot of heavy lifting to explain why qualified people keep failing at certain companies"
32 posts
#2
Sourcing
: "Sourced a candidate from Indeed but a different person showed up for the in-person interview"
28 posts
#3
Interviews
: "What’s the most unusual interview question you’ve seen actually work well?"
24 posts
#4
External / Agency Recruiter
: "What’s one thing in recruiting that everyone pretends is normal but is actually insane?"
21 posts
#5
Tools/Systems
: "LinkedIn Recruiter at $100k+ is not worth it. Any alternatives?"
18 posts
#6
Candidate
: "From a recruiter’s perspective, what is the #1 reason you reject a candidate who is technically perfect on paper?"
15 posts
#7
CVs
: "What do you do with candidates who are clearly overqualified?"
10 posts
#8
Stakeholder Management/Engagement
: "Recruiter pressured me to lower my expectations, then went silent. What would you do"
10 posts
#9
Business Management
: "How do you negotiate with an executive search firm on fees, is there any room there or is it fixed"
9 posts
#10
Hiring Manager
: "How do you actually vet a recruiter before committing to a search together?"
7 posts
Member Growth in r/Recruitment
Yearly
+11k members(82.0%)
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Last updated: July 2, 2026