Psychology is the most common major of recruiters, and human resources the most popular master’s degree.
That’s from a new LinkedIn “Savvy Recruiters Career Guide.” LinkedIn looked at more than 100,000 recruiter profiles to look at the majors and degrees.
Here are the top 10.
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First, the most popular majors.
Now, the master’s degrees.
Todd, other questions come to mind:
% of current recruiters whose career path began in recruiting versus other areas
Major in relation to internal versus external recruiting
State school versus Private school in relation to internal versus external recruiting
Majors of those who speak at ERE conferences…
Career path – that’s interesting. I’d take a guess the majority did not start in recruiting. May look into that. The internal/external is interesting too. Re: ERE conferences it probably skews more to people w/graduate degrees, as the speakers are more likely than not dept. leaders in some way.
Many of our mutual friends share the same story of recruiting “finding” them…