Recruiting with LinkedIn Blog

Announcing LinkedIn Recruiter for Agency and Executive Search Recruiters

Prasad Gune — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:00:34 +0000

We’re really excited to announce the launch of LinkedIn Recruiter – Professional Services Edition - a recruitment solution for recruiting agency and executive search firm professionals. This latest addition to LinkedIn Talent Advantage significantly boosts recruiter, researcher and consultant productivity when sourcing on LinkedIn, with advanced talent search, enhanced messaging and collaboration features. With the pressure to [...]

6 Tips to Boost your InMail Response Rates

Kevin DuBay — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:03:45 +0000

Learn how to boost your InMail response rates with 6 easy steps As I’ve mentioned in previous entries, the key to boosting your InMail response rates is writing a message which is targeted as closely to the recipient as possible. This can be difficult when sending the same InMail template to 20 members simultaneously. But by [...]

Update: Slides from October 29th webcast now available - Creating a talent brand with Libby Sartain

Tejal Patel — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:31:20 +0000

Update: The slides from Libby Sartain’s talent brand webcast are now available Click Here to see the slides Also, check out Libby’s Brand for Talent blog to learn more about building a talent brand. Guest speaker Libby Sartain shares how to create a talent brand to get the right people at the right time Join us at 9:00 [...]

LinkedIn Survey Results - Preparing for the Recovery

Matt Warburton — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:18:21 +0000

Gain insights into recruiting trends and learn how corporate recruiters have been preparing for better days A recent LinkedIn report on recruiting details how corporate recruiting professionals are doing business in tough economic times and preparing for the recovery. The recession, the rise of social networking, and an increase in the use of technology are [...]

Post your Jobs Faster on LinkedIn with eQuest

Parker Barrile — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:31:03 +0000

We cover the eQuest distribution fees when you post your jobs from your ATS to LinkedIn At LinkedIn, we know that, even in this economy, recruiters are busy people. Posting jobs online can get repetitive and time-consuming. Since our goal is to make our members jobs easier and to make them more productive, we wanted to simplify [...]

Manage key contacts with LinkedIn Profile Organizer

Prasad Gune — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:15:06 +0000

A new LinkedIn premium feature lets you manage your pipeline and more. Have you ever come across interesting individuals on LinkedIn and either bookmarked their profiles in your browser or saved their names in Outlook or on a piece of paper? Introducing Profile Organizer Profile Organizer is a new feature, available on individual Premium accounts, that helps you [...]

Learn how Trimble saved over $800k using LinkedIn Recruiter

Matt Warburton — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:58:23 +0000

Learn how Bob Spoer from Trimble saved his company over $800k by using LinkedIn Recruiter to source executives. In the video below, Trimble’s Director of Staffing, Bob Spoer, details how LinkedIn Recruiter helps him find senior executives and other staff worldwide, saving his company around $800,000 in the first 17 months of use. With this LinkedIn [...]

5 questions to ask yourself before defining your company’s social media guidelines

Mario Sundar — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:47:54 +0000

How to build your employment brand with social media and LinkedIn – Tip 1 This is the first in a series of posts aimed at helping HR teams encourage effective use of social media among their employees. As I’d mentioned in my earlier post, many professionals are slowly realizing the importance of building their personal brand [...]

LinkedIn Recruiter Tip: InMail Response Guarantee

Kevin DuBay — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:37:54 +0000

Get the most out of your InMail. Learn more about the LinkedIn InMail 7-day Response Guarantee You probably already know that your unused LinkedIn InMail credits rollover from month-to-month like cellphone minutes (though they do max-out at 3x your monthly allotment). But did you also know that they only count if the candidate responds? It’s called [...]

Join us for a free webcast on September 24th - Presentation of LinkedIn recruiting survey results

Tejal Patel — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:02:22 +0000

Learn what corporate recruiters are saying about the economy and recruiting trends Join us at 9:00 am PST (12:00 pm EST) on September 24th for a free webcast presentation on recruiting trends. Learn how 300 corporate recruiting professionals answered the following questions: What are they doing to prepare for the recovery? What are they doing to face [...]