What Principal Recruiting Jobs Ask For
Across 86 open Principal Recruiting postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are ai, candidate-experience, analytics.
Updated September 19, 2026
130 open Principal Recruiting postings. The percentages below are measured over the 86 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| ai | 50% |
| candidate-experience | 36% |
| analytics | 24% |
| stakeholder-management | 22% |
| cloud | 19% |
| full-cycle-recruiting | 19% |
| linkedin-recruiter | 17% |
| business-development | 15% |
| networking | 15% |
| saas | 15% |
| machine-learning | 14% |
| employer-branding | 12% |
| generative-ai | 9% |
| automation | 8% |
| atlassian | 7% |
| devops | 7% |
| miro | 7% |
| process-improvement | 7% |
| accessibility | 6% |
| agentic-ai | 6% |
| crm | 6% |
| data-engineering | 6% |
| pipeline-management | 6% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
Browse 130 open Principal Recruiting jobs →
Across all Recruiting levels
Most Recruiting postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- candidate-experience 5,965
- ai 2,918
- full-cycle-recruiting 2,543
- networking 2,503
- linkedin-recruiter 2,423
- employer-branding 2,409
- stakeholder-management 1,816
- analytics 1,588
- automation 921
- business-development 776
- process-improvement 749
- cloud 744