What Principal Recruiting Jobs Ask For
Across 95 open Principal Recruiting postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are candidate-experience, ai, analytics.
Updated November 3, 2026
130 open Principal Recruiting postings. The percentages below are measured over the 95 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| candidate-experience | 49% |
| ai | 48% |
| analytics | 29% |
| stakeholder-management | 24% |
| business-development | 20% |
| crm | 20% |
| linkedin-recruiter | 19% |
| networking | 18% |
| automation | 16% |
| full-cycle-recruiting | 16% |
| employer-branding | 14% |
| machine-learning | 14% |
| saas | 14% |
| generative-ai | 12% |
| cloud | 7% |
| agentic-ai | 6% |
| atlassian | 6% |
| data-engineering | 6% |
| miro | 6% |
| boolean-search | 5% |
| data-quality | 5% |
| data-science | 5% |
| go-to-market | 5% |
"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 7,384
- ai 3,531
- networking 3,130
- employer-branding 3,030
- linkedin-recruiter 3,005
- full-cycle-recruiting 2,889
- stakeholder-management 2,360
- analytics 2,031
- automation 1,173
- business-development 1,026
- cloud 953
- crm 949