Recruiter CV example
Pipeline, fill rate, and quality of hire are your numbers.
Sample professional summary
“Technical recruiter who filled 45+ roles a year at a 92% offer-accept rate and 28-day average time-to-fill.”
Key skills recruiters look for
- Sourcing
- ATS
- Interviewing
- Employer branding
- Negotiation
How to write strong bullet points
- Lead with roles filled and time-to-fill.
- Show offer-accept and quality metrics.
- Name the ATS and sourcing channels.
Recruiter career path & typical salary
How the role typically progresses, with the kind of responsibilities and approximate US base-salary range at each stage.
0–2 yrs
Sources candidates, schedules interviews, and keeps the pipeline and ATS clean.
2–5 yrs
Owns full-cycle hiring for roles: intake, sourcing, assessment, and closing offers.
5–8 yrs
Owns hard-to-fill or senior roles, advises hiring managers, and improves the process and brand.
8+ yrs
Leads a recruiting team and capacity planning, owns hiring metrics and stakeholder trust.
12+ yrs
Owns hiring strategy, employer brand and TA operations org-wide.
Salary figures are approximate US market estimates for general guidance only. Actual pay varies widely by location, industry, employer, education and negotiation.
Common Recruiter interview questions
Practice structured answers (situation, action, measurable result) — the same achievements belong on your CV.
- Walk me through how you'd fill a role you know nothing about.
- Tell me about a hard-to-fill role and how you finally closed it.
- How do you run an intake so you don't waste weeks on the wrong profile?
- How do you keep a candidate warm and close them against a competing offer?
- Describe pushing back on a hiring manager with unrealistic expectations.
- Which hiring metrics do you watch and how have you improved one?
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