15 Brilliant Recruitment Copywriters

Writing is hard. Well I mean writing is relatively easy, I can put together an email, a WhatsApp message and LinkedIn InMail pretty quickly - using a dozen of my prefabricated templates. However good, original content is hard to write. Coming up with ideas is tough, let alone the actual writing. Writing a cold email sales pitch, which grabs your prospects' attention is super hard. Writing an engaging, informative and entertaining blog post that goes viral is hard. It's so easy to have a blogs section that no one visits. And that’s why you need a professional writer in your life. But what to look for?

Some recruitment industry writers will specialise in particular forms of content, while others will be generalist. Each will be able to write for a variety of different clients but you should choose a content creator who you feel suits the tone of voice you're looking for. Some will charge per day, others will work on monthly retainers and some are happy to work on off of pieces. 

Whether you’re looking for a professional copywriter to help with your job adverts, role descriptions, website copy, blog posts, research papers, salary guides or emails, we’ve got you covered with some of the most prominent and influential copywriters in the recruitment industry. 

Alex Martin

Alex is a freelance content marketing writer, specialising in blogging, social media and newsletters, primarily in the recruitment, education and charity sectors. You’ll probably know her as the newsletter editor for UK Recruiter. 

Andy Mckendry

Andy spent a period of time writing for the Firefish blog. He currently works full time as a UX Writing Lead for Toptal but also has his own content agency, working with marketing, UX and engineering teams, writing copy for client websites. 

Becky Coote

Becky has a background working in marketing, events and content, She has spent the last 6 years working in the recruitment industry, writing in-depth, well researched blogs to talk to and engage with your clients on a more professional and entertaining level. 

Claire Stapley

Claire’s well known in the recruitment sector, almost an industry staple (pun intended)! She’s gone from writer to recruiter and back to writer, having worked for a variety of recruitment agencies and suppliers to the recruiter sector including Hector, Hoxo, La Fosse, Barrington James, to mention just a few. She’s spent the last few years freelancing out of Australia working with recruitment clients across the world, including the UK.

Emily Buckley

I was lucky enough to meet Emily at one of Louise Triance’s UK Recruiter events last summer when I believe some of the team from Wave were down. Now Emily actually works for the competition but I think she writes some brilliant recruitment articles. The topics are always unique and you can tell it’s well researched. Typically short to medium form blog post content. 

James Whitelock

James is the MD of ThinkinCircles, a recruitment marketing agency and an ex-recruitment website manager. ThinkinCircles works across content marketing, email marketing, website content and social media management.  

Jen Mulholland

Jen works in the content marketing team at Thrive Recruitment Marketing. For the past three years she has been writing articles, social media website, and email copy for recruiters across a wide range of topics and industries. She specialises in content that is not only insightful, engaging, and accurate but that makes a real impact for your brand.

Jessica Ross

Jessica spent a few years working recruitment agency side, copywriting for web pages, blogs, social media and press releases and launched her own content creation agency a few years back, specialising in a whole variety of different sectors including recruitment. She’s also previously been a speaker at The Recruitment Agency Expo. 

John Tompson

John has a strong educational background in writing and started his career working within local, regional newspapers, similar to a lot journalists. He’s spent the last 9 years working within the recruitment sector, working as an Editorial Manager for a recruitment agency and as a Content Manager at Adhook, helping recruitment firms with their job adverts and LinkedIn profiles. John also assists individuals seeking to enhance their CVs.

Jordan Lowe

Jordan has spent the last few years working with recruitment agencies and in-house talent teams, supporting them with their press releases, SEO, copywriting and email marketing. 

Katie Paterson

Katie has a very strong educational background in writing and English Literature and used to work at Firefish Recruitment CRM as their Head of Content & Marketing. She now works as a freelance writer, specialising in recruitment technology.

Luca Rosi

Luca has had probably one of the longest careers in recruitment marketing & content. He’s been a specialist recruitment copywriter since 2006 for UK and global recruitment businesses. He works across a variety of forms but specialises in producing compelling thought leadership pieces. He spent almost 9 years working at Hays as their Editorial Manager and is currently freelancing. 

Mitch Sullivan

The OG recruitment copywriter. The recruiter turned recruitment copywriter. Mitch specialises in helping recruitment agencies to write compelling job advertisements. This could be perceived as any piece of content intended to attract people to a job opening, whether it's a job posting, email, InMail or social media post. I was lucky enough to meet Mitch at a RecConnect event last year and have a beer with him, He’s a great bloke and as soft as a pussy cat! 

Simon Kent

Simon has a strong educational background in writing and has spent several years freelancing for the likes of The Global Recruiter, HRO Today and HR World. He works across articles, advertorials, blogs, features, copy-editing and proofreading.

Toni Heater

Toni is a recruiter turned freelance writer. She works across a variety of recruitment content mediums such as LinkedIn ghostwriting, LinkedIn optimisation, editing, proofreading, writing blog posts & articles, website copy, case studies, job adverts & descriptions. 

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