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Articles posted in January 2011

  • LinkedIn Members Warm to Recruiter Messages, Popular Poll Shows

    Leela Srinivasan, January 26, 2011

    Does it bother professionals to get unsolicited recruitment messages on LinkedIn? The thought occurred to David Cunniffe, an Ireland-based banking and financial services recruiting manager, who posted his query using LinkedIn Polls. He had no idea he’d created one of the fastest-growing and most popular polls we’ve seen. Almost 14,000 members weighed in, and more than 1,000 left their comments.

    As you’ll see in the image below, the vast majority of respondents agreed it wouldn’t bother them to hear from a recruiter, provided that the role was relevant to their experience.

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  • LTBDs: LinkedIn Recruiter’s Year in Review

    Prasad Gune, January 5, 2011

    At Talent Connect, our inaugural corporate recruiting customer conference in November, VP Product David Hahn talked at length about LTBDs, or the ‘Little Things, Big Difference’ that we’re continually changing to make LinkedIn Recruiter an ever more critical sourcing and pipelining tool. The major inspiration for much of this innovation is input from our customers.

    Now, we all know recruiters aren’t shy, and LinkedIn Recruiter users are no exception. We logged hundreds of  separate pieces of feedback last year that informed many of the 50+ enhancements we made to our core product. Before we dive into 2011, we thought we’d take a moment to recap some of the highlights of LinkedIn Recruiter’s 2010.

    January    : LinkedIn kicks off the New Year with 55 million members. Meanwhile, we make the Recruiter home page smarter by adding more intuitive navigation, clearer visibility into team activity on shared projects, and easier management of assets like InMails and Job Slots.

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