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Does your recruiting team have a dedicated job poster whose responsibility it is to manage your LinkedIn Recruiter Job Slots? If so, then all of your company’s job posts are probably associated with that one person’s profile.  While that’s certainly better than listing no profile, it’s often more beneficial to feature the profile of the specific recruiter responsible for filling the position instead.

Remember, the major difference between posting a job on a traditional job board versus on LinkedIn is that jobs posted on a professional network are NOT static. Instead of sitting on a web page just waiting to be found, the community of professionals starts forwarding them, helping connect the right talent with the right opportunity.  On average, LinkedIn Jobs are forwarded 11 times and LinkedIn Recruiter experts know that showing your own profile on job posts is essential to revving up that viral engine.

Editor’s note: LinkedIn’s UK membership recently crossed the 4 million mark. Premium LinkedIn customer Lee Cooper here discusses the impact he believes LinkedIn has had on the recruiting scene, in the UK and elsewhere.

Technology is key, Linkedin is the game changer

Private sector job growth slowed last month. The demise of big traditional conferences has long been proclaimed. Given these two facts, you’d be forgiven for thinking the annual conference of the National Association of Colleges and Employers might be a bust. But after an action-packed four days in Orlando, FL at NACE 2010, I can tell you it was quite the reverse. And across the 93 knowledge sessions offered during the conference, the hot topic in many instances was how to leverage social media for recruiting.

The excitement was palpable as 1,600 employers and career advisors from around the globe gathered to connect and share ideas.  Roundtable discussions, lunchtime topics, and impromptu conversations taking place throughout the conference facility confirmed that NACE members totally get the importance of in-person networking at every opportunity, on both a local and international scale.