LinkedIn Recruiter is not a mystery tool: recruiters from major companies like Nokia, Astreya, Intel, L’Oréal, PepsiCo, Sony, and many others are already using this “talent solution” to build a solid talent pipeline, cut recruiting costs, and reach out to higher-caliber candidates. The customer database using LinkedIn Recruiter is constantly growing.
A paid offer available to businesses, this service is part of LinkedIn continuous efforts to becoming the strongest network for recruiters and job hunters, rivaling employment websites like Monster, CareerBuilder, Indeed and others. LinkedIn is already considered among the best job searches websites in the world, and now aims to become the goto place for recruiters too, rivaling vendors like SmashFly, TalentBin, and Avature, to name a few.
LinkedIn Recruiter allows you to synchronize team activities with shared projects, searches, profiles, and candidate notes.
LinkedIn Recruiter offers excellent advantages to businesses using it, giving them access to a wealth of reports and resources, some of which are not available without signup. Last week, the company published its Global Recruiting Trends 2013 featuring five important talent acquisition trends:- Social professional networks are increasingly impacting quality of hire (internet job boards are still at the top of the list of places to find jobs, with 37% but they are followed closely by social networks, at 36%, and recruitment agencies at 35%).
- Employer branding is both a competitive threat and a competitive advantage (83% believe that employer brand has a significant impact on the ability to hire great talent)
- Data is used in making better hiring and branding decisions
- Companies are investing in hiring internally to stop talent from walking out the door
- Companies are figuring out the mobile recruiting terrain (87% are still not investing adequately in mobile, but 59% candidates are using mobile to learn about job opportunities)
- Build, track and manage talent you want to hire now or in the future with folders, reminders and smart to do lists, with LinkedIn’s Talent Pipeline.
- Contact candidates through InMail ®, featuring message templates and one to many InMails.
- Expand your searches beyond your personal connections to access the entire LinkedIn network.
