Whether you are a recruiter, an HR professional, a manager or simply passionate about the subject, following relevant influencers can have a significant impact on your industry watch, your strategy and the actions you take every day.
Some lead dedicated communities, others write books, produce podcasts, take part in conferences or educate the new generation of recruiters: the formats are varied…
In 2025, the leading voices in recruitment play a major role on professional platforms such as LinkedIn. They make a significant contribution to the transformation of the HR professions.
📲 To give you a clearer picture, we have selected the recruitment influencers who are the most inspiring right now.
Here are the recruitment influencers to follow in 2025:
Laura Pedro
Recruitment, recruiter training
Recruiter, trainer and content creator, Laura Pedro brilliantly demystifies the challenges of modern recruitment. Her motto: passing on practical keys to HR professionals. She is a leading figure in freelance recruitment and recruiter training. A committed and creative educator, she skilfully explains the inner workings of modern recruitment, notably through her daily posts on LinkedIn and TikTok, where she shares advice, tips and first-hand experience.
Specialising in supporting independent recruiters, she helps them get started, perform well and find the right balance between autonomy, income and personal and professional fulfilment. Her approach rests on a strong promise: more freedom, more impact, more results. With Emathea, she offers structured support, practical tools and a close-knit community to help recruiters take their business to the next level.
Hélène Ly
LinkedIn Top Voice, author and trainer specialising in IT recruitment. Hélène is also a Jarvi Advisor and regularly publishes high-value posts for tech recruiters. After 9 years as an IT recruiter, Hélène Ly now helps tech recruiters with their upskilling through training that is clear, accessible and pragmatic.
She helps beginners and seasoned professionals alike to better understand technical profiles, to overcome sourcing roadblocks, and to become more efficient.
An author, Jarvi Advisor and LinkedIn Top Voice, Hélène shares high-value content every week on the tech ecosystem, best practice in the profession and the on-the-ground reality of IT recruitment. More than 400 HR professionals have already followed her programmes, including the famous “Culture Tech” and “Booster vos recrutements IT”.
Follow her on LinkedIn for her practical advice, her authentic tone… and a few nods to Japanese pop culture!
Tonton Karim (Karim Hechmi)
CEO FindYourWay I LinkedIn Top Voice I HR & Employer Brand Consulting I Speaker (TEDx) I Training I Recruitment
Karim Hechmi, aka Tonton Karim, is an iconic figure of new-generation recruitment. CEO of FindYourWay, TEDx speaker and LinkedIn Top Voice (named three times by LinkedIn France), he shakes up the conventions of HR consulting and employer branding with an ultra-creative and resolutely action-oriented approach.
Through viral video campaigns, vox pops and offbeat events (Mario Kart with an HR director? Yes, he did it), Karim helps companies boost their visibility and recruit differently. With more than 10 million views generated, his impact does not go unnoticed.
He also takes part in more than 70 events every year to help students into the working world, through talks, workshops, networking and afterworks. He is also the author of the book “Deviens un aimant à recruteurs sur LinkedIn” (Éditions Eyrolles).
A profile to follow for his straight talking, his boundless creativity and his ability to bring together recruitment and innovation.
Charlène Hemery
Recruitment | Founder @TalentCatcher
Founder of TalentCatcher, Charlène reveals what goes on behind the scenes of recruitment with accuracy and candour. One to follow for a vision of the profession that is both entrepreneurial and human .
Charlène Hemery is revolutionising recruitment with a strong message: let's stop hunting candidates, and learn to attract them. As founder of TalentCatcher, she helps companies adopt a more modern approach, inspired by HR marketing, by training their recruiters in personal branding, content creation andemployee advocacy.
Her method, tried and tested with more than 2,000 HR professionals, can cut by three the average cost of recruitment. Charlène offers practical training courses such as "La boîte à outils du recruteur-marketeur", to turn HR teams into real talent magnets.
One to follow for her entrepreneurial, human and refreshing vision of recruitment, focused on content strategy and authenticity.
Pierre Allain
Head of Talent Acquisition @Hublo | LinkedIn Top Voice
Head of Talent Acquisition at Hublo and LinkedIn Top Voice, Pierre regularly shares sharp insights on recruitment challenges and best practice in companies. An expert in recruitment for start-ups and scale-ups, Pierre Allain has spent more than 7 years helping SaaS, tech and digital companies find the perfect match.
As Head of Talent Acquisition at Hublo and a LinkedIn Top Voice, he regularly shares strategic insights on talent acquisition, employer branding and the recruitment of #sales, #marketing, #tech and #digital profiles.
With an approach based on advice, listening and responsiveness, Pierre favours tailored, long-lasting relationships with his clients and candidates. Trilingual (🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇸) and always with a touch of humour, he perfectly embodies the balance between high standards and kindness in modern recruitment.
One to follow for his strategic vision, his advice and his ability to humanise the recruitment process.
Laurent Brouat
Recruitment | Speaker and co-founder of Link Humans | Tips and analysis on HR trends
Co-founder of Link Humans, speaker and author, Laurent is a long-standing figure in digital recruitment. He regularly shares in-depth analysis of developments in the sector.
An iconic figure in digital recruitment, Laurent Brouat has left his mark on the HR ecosystem for more than 15 years. After founding Link Humans (which became L’École du Recrutement), he returned in 2023 with a new venture: Les Talents Narratifs, the first content agency dedicated to recruitment professionals.
His goal? To help recruiters gain visibility through articles, LinkedIn posts, newsletters and podcasts designed to showcase their expertise and attract clients and candidates.
A speaker, podcaster (with Il était une fois l’entrepreneur) and trainer, Laurent combines in-depth knowledge of the HR market with a real talent for storytelling.
One to follow for his in-depth analysis, his advice on HR content strategy and his sharp eye on how the profession is changing.
Léo Bernard
@Blendy: Recruitment training / 📕 Book "Permis de recruter" / 🎙️ TamTam podcast / WTTJ lab' expert
Léo Bernard is on a clear mission: to help recruiters move up to the next level. Co-founder of Blendy with Elise Moron, he trains recruiters, managers and executives every day through educational content that is rich, interactive and personalised.
Their training programme includes more than 70 modules and an NPS above 92.
Léo is also very active in content creation: he is the author of the book Permis de recruter, host of the TamTam podcast, and an expert in the Welcome to the Jungle Lab’, where he contributes articles, videos, newsletters and events.
Talks, workshops, team coaching… he uses every format to spread good HR practice everywhere. Passionate, approachable and highly committed, he embodies a new generation of trainers, connected and engaged.
One to follow for his practical advice, his useful content and his infectious enthusiasm.
Camille Goni
Head of Talent @Shine + @Ageras | Career coach @theGoodCall | Building teams & taking care of people 🤲
Talent manager at Shine and Ageras, Camille is also a career coach. Her authentic and caring content covers team management, leadership and building sustainable careers.
A psychologist by training and an entrepreneur at heart, Camille Goni is a committed HR professional, specialising in structuring and developing teams in start-up environments. She supports growth by recruiting a wide range of profiles (tech, product, sales, marketing…) while nurturing strong and inclusive company cultures.
As a career coach at theGoodCall, she also helps people build a sustainable and aligned career path. Authentic and caring, Camille regularly shares her thoughts on the future of work, leadership and HR trends on LinkedIn.
One to follow for her strategic vision of talent, her human approach to management and her inspiring content on the start-up ecosystem.
Elie Toupart
The recruitment seed 🌱 Agriculture & Viticulture | Social Media Manager | LinkedIn Top Voice
Social Media Manager and LinkedIn Top Voice, Elie talks about recruitment in the agriculture and wine-growing sectors with a refreshing approach that is full of authenticity.
At the crossroads between HR and communication, Elie Toupart has found her path by combining the two: she recruits and creates content in the agriculture and wine-growing sectors. The granddaughter of farmers and passionate about rural life, she cultivates an authentic, committed and deeply human approach to recruitment.
LinkedIn Top Voice, Elie supports companies through every stage of their recruitment, while helping them work on their employer brand through impactful content. She also posts regularly on her own account, covering topics such as discrimination, inclusivity and agricultural news (with a press review every Friday 🌱).
One to follow for her dual expertise in HR and communication, her committed writing and her refreshing energy.
Elise Moron
Trains recruiters and managers | @Blendy⚡️| Former headhunter | Book “ Permis de Recruter ” 📘 | Speaker
A trainer at Blendy, Elise combines field experience, teaching skills and a passion for passing on knowledge. Her content is always accessible, relevant and people-centred. A former headhunter turned trainer, Elise Moron skilfully blends teaching, psychology and growth techniques to turn recruiters into true talent strategists.
Co-founder of Blendy, she trains recruiters and managers in practical methods inspired by marketing, sales and growth hacking.
Her book Permis de Recruter, co-written with Léo Bernard, has become a reference in the HR ecosystem. In it, she champions a modern, structured and humanist approach to recruitment: further from gut feeling and closer to talent. A committed speaker, she also shares her advice on LinkedIn, always with energy and humour.
One to follow for her T-shaped vision of the profession, her recruitment hacks and her love of passing on knowledge.
Nicolas Galita
📕 Book “Le recrutement ne s'improvise pas”
Author of the book Le recrutement ne s’improvise pas, Nicolas is known for his educational content, which is sometimes unsettling (in a good way). He encourages reflection on the meaning of recruitment.
A leading reference in HR education, Nicolas Galita has been training and challenging recruiters for more than 10 years at L’École du Recrutement. Through his training courses, articles, talks and videos, he shakes up conventional wisdom and invites people to fundamentally rethink the practices of the profession.
As the author of the book Le recrutement ne s’improvise pas, he champions a structured, thoughtful and deeply human approach to recruitment. His frank and sometimes provocative style can be unsettling, but always with the aim of helping people progress.
One to follow for his bold stances, his highly educational content and his sharp eye on the realities on the ground.
Antoine Hosteing
Steering your sales recruitment with the best experts | across France | + 500 recruiters
A specialist in sales recruitment, Antoine highlights best practices to structure and manage recruitment effectively on a large scale.
With 20 years of experience in HR solutions (Cadremploi, Meteojob), Antoine Hosteing is now an expert in high-value sales recruitment. Heading his own agency within Mercato de l’emploi, he draws on a network of 500 specialist recruiters to manage strategic recruitment effectively all over France.
His method relies on a structured kick-off, the selection of the best field experts and proven tools to attract, assess and win over the best profiles. Passionate about human performance and authenticity in the recruiter-candidate relationship, he also supports HR entrepreneurs as they launch their business.
One to follow for his rigour, his very hands-on approach to sales recruitment, and his human vision of HR challenges.
Alexandre Demarquilly
Launch of his newsletter: alexandredemarquilly.substack.com
An HR entrepreneur, he recently launched his newsletter on Substack, where he shares strategic thoughts on thefuture of recruitment.
A consultant and entrepreneur in the HR sector, Alexandre Demarquilly speaks directly to experienced recruiters looking for freedom, meaning and better working conditions. He champions a more flexible and better-paid model through the collective Talents Groupe, which he presents as a path towardsfully embraced independence.
He also shares his strategic thoughts on the future of recruitment in a newsletter launched on Substack, covering business advice, how the profession is changing and the culture of independence.
One to follow for his entrepreneurial vision of recruitment and his perspective on the changes in the HR sector.
Joseph Calen
Managing Director & Founder | Linking Talents
Head of Linking Talents, Joseph shares his experience of growth, running recruitment agencies and the challenges of the job market. Founder of the Linking Talents group, Joseph Calen runs one of the most dynamic recruitment agencies on the French market. Organised around 14 specialist divisions (payroll, IT, finance, healthcare, real estate, legal, etc.), the group meets recruitment needs across a wide range of sectors while keeping a human and expert approach.
Drawing on his experience in agency management, HR development and strategic leadership, Joseph regularly shares his experience of growth, organisation and job market trends. He has also developed complementary activities in umbrella employment (portage salarial), training and HRIS consulting.
One to follow for his structured vision of the sector, his experience as a business leader and his ability to change practices on a large scale.
David Bernard
CEO of AssessFirst, expert in predictive talent assessment and influential author on LinkedIn
David champions a predictive and scientific vision of recruitment. He regularly publishes hard-hitting analyses of soft skills and personality at work.
A quantitative psychologist by training, David Bernard co-founded AssessFirst just 30 days after graduating, with one ambition: to revolutionise recruitment through the science of human behaviour. He is now one of the leading experts in the predictive assessment of soft skills, with technology able to predict a candidate's success with 85% reliability.
An influential author on LinkedIn, he shares in-depth analysis of personality, performance at work and theimpact of data in HR processes. In 2020, he turned AssessFirst into a 100% remotecompany, which today has more than 100 employees in 40 countries, and 3,500 client users of its solutions.
One to follow for his innovative vision, his inspiring content and his ability to connect psychology, tech and HR performance.
Marie-Sophie Zambeaux
ReThink RH | Content creation & talks on recruitment & employer brand | WTTJ lab expert
An active member of the WTTJ lab and HR content creator, she approaches recruitment, employer branding and people with a fresh and inspiring eye.
With nearly 20 years of experience in recruitment and talent development, Marie-Sophie Zambeaux combines field expertise and strategic vision. Founder of the ReThink RH consultancy, she supports companies and recruiters on key topics: structuring processes, employer brand, candidate experience and tackling cognitive bias.
A trainer, speaker and content creator (articles, white papers, podcasts), she also contributes to the Welcome to the Jungle Lab, where she shares her frank and clear-sighted view of HR realities.
She is also the author of Recrutement sous influence: libérez-vous des biais cognitifs, a book published by Dunod in February 2025.
One to follow for her balanced approach between practice and reflection, her authentic tone and her high-value content.
Isabelle Rouhan
Founder of Colibri Talent, a specialist in the jobs and skills of tomorrow. | TEDx speaker
Founder of Colibri Talent, Isabelle is a committed voice on the skills of tomorrow, the changing world of work and theimpact of technology on employment.
A former executive at Facebook, Renault and Havas, Isabelle Rouhan founded Colibri Talent in 2017, an agency specialising in recruitment and outplacement linked to digital transformation, data and artificial intelligence. She is now one of the most influential voices on the future of work and changing skills.
Author of the books Les métiers du futur and Emploi 4.0, Isabelle has also created a successful podcast (100K listens a month) and a think tank dedicated to these topics. A TEDx speaker, business angel and member of several boards of directors, she takes concrete action to anticipate the changes in the job market.
One to follow for her forward-looking analysis, her commitment to a responsible HR transition and her sharp eye on the links between tech and employment.
Olivia Defond
Founder of OD Consulting & Recruiter
A recruitment specialist and HR strategy expert, Olivia Defond shares daily advice to professionalise recruiters' practices and enhance the employer brand. With a tone that is both direct and caring, she talks openly about the realities on the ground, common mistakes and ways to improve.
A key voice for anyone who wants to recruit better, and more intelligently. With more than 20 years of experience, Olivia Defond is a tech recruitment expert, specialising in rare profiles and sectors facing talent shortages: cybersecurity, data, AI, web 3.0, blockchain, applications, product, infrastructure... She supports companies in their talent acquisition strategy with an approach that is direct, personalised and highly effective.
Founder of OD Consulting, Olivia offers two flagship services: tailored headhunting (well beyond LinkedIn) and flexible RPO, enhanced with strategic support and team training (scorecard, employer brand, candidate experience, tools, etc.).
A key voice on LinkedIn, she talks openly about the realities of the profession, frequent mistakes and, above all, the levers for recruiting better, faster and more intelligently.
One to follow for her unfiltered vision, her strategic rigour and her obsession with ROI.
Barbara Driss
International mobility & career management expert
A career consultant and international mobility expert, Barbara Driss supports talent and companies through their career transitions. Specialising in outplacement, career development and HR consulting, she offers tailored support to help everyone find (or rediscover) their path, in France and abroad.
With 20 years of experience in recruitment, management and coaching, she offers support to showcase your profile, adapt to local cultural codes and make a successful career transition.
Based in Barcelona, Barbara knows the challenges of a successful move abroad: understanding the market, building a network, adapting to local practices. She now shares this expertise through personalised programmes focused on optimising your CV and LinkedIn profile, your application strategy and your interview preparation.
One to follow for her advice, her caring approach and her commitment to career paths that are more agile and aligned, all over the world.
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