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New features in LinkedIn Recruiter help you find the right talent

Prasad Gune | November 18th, 2009 | 10:04 am
Prasad Gune

We continue to add new features to LinkedIn Recruiter to help you zero-in on the best talent.  The latest enhancements include 4 new Search Refinement Filters and a new way to find profiles that may not have appeared in your search results

4 New Search Refinement Filters help you find the right talent

Have you ever wanted to remove over or under qualified people from your talent search?
Three new “experience” filters in LinkedIn Recruiter allow you to do just that, giving you the ability to zero-in on the right people.

* Years of Experience
* Years at Company
* Years in Position

In addition, you are also able to narrow your search results based on candidate membership in various LinkedIn Groups. That is for all public groups on LinkedIn and not just the ones you belong to.

The Search Refinement Filters provide true guided navigation right in search results, reduce the need for boolean, and provide a powerful and dynamic summary of your search results.

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Find profiles that may have not come up in your search

Now you can use the power of the LinkedIn network to find profiles that may not have come up in your search.  Once you have found a good match for your project, you can now see what members who viewed that profile also viewed, bringing you more suggestions of profiles you might have not searched for.

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As you can see we remain committed to bringing you the most powerful ways to precisely find the right candidates faster on LinkedIn, with Recruiter’s enhanced talent search. We trust these enhancements to our online recruiting solution will help you hire more and better top talent.

You can read Boolean Black Belt’s review of these new filters.

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Announcing LinkedIn Recruiter for Agency and Executive Search Recruiters

Prasad Gune | November 4th, 2009 | 3:00 am
Prasad Gune

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 drive efficiencies in the current economic environment, we are bringing recruiting agencies and executive search firms better ways to quickly find and engage the best talent on LinkedIn.

Here is how it works:

Advanced Talent Search to find candidates effortlessly:

New dynamic search refinements help zero-in on the right profiles in just in few clicks, eliminating the need to build complicated search queries.  Recruiters can filter results by company, industry, education, location and more.

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Recruiters can also be first to get to the right candidates, through saved searches and alerts on new people matching their search criteria.

Enhanced messaging to spend less time on repetitive tasks:

Each seat receives 50 InMails® per month with the ability to send 1-to-many InMails and save templates to contact multiple candidates faster.

Pipeline management tools to stay on top of a search:

Recruiters can create folders for each project to stay better organized. There, they can save searches and profiles of relevant candidates. They can also see candidate communication history and initiate bulk actions such as printing profiles and sending InMails.

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Collaboration features to gain visibility into teammates’ activity:

Teams can share project folders and their content - saved profiles, notes, searches and communication history - to avoid duplication of effort and know who on the team is already in touch with certain candidates. Profiles saved in a shared project folder will also expand access to names and full profiles for the entire team.

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Saving sourcing history at company level to avoid starting from scratch:

User activity is stored with each license so an agency can access its LinkedIn intelligence even if team members leave the company.

We’re really confident that this new solution will help agencies achieve significant productivity gains while finding highly-qualified – passive for the most part – talent on LinkedIn.

Want to learn more?

You can sign up for upcoming free demo webcasts on Nov 17 or Dec 8 at 1 pm EST (10 am PST)  or learn more about our recruiting solution on this site to download the data sheet or request a free consultation with one of our LinkedIn experts.

Click here to register for the webcast on Nov 17 at 1 pm EST (10 am PST)

Click here to register for the webcast on Dec 8 at 1 pm EST (10 am PST)

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Manage key contacts with LinkedIn Profile Organizer

Prasad Gune | October 1st, 2009 | 9:15 am
Prasad Gune

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 both organize your search results and manage your contacts more effectively.
It carves out a private workspace that’s easy to use and highly accessible from the new “Profile Organizer” tab in your Contacts page.

Whether you’re building a pipeline of candidates, looking for expertise on a particular topic, deepening your industry ties, or exploring potential partnerships; anytime you find an individual of interest in a LinkedIn Search result, simply click “Save Profile” and the profile is bookmarked for you.
You can also organize these profiles in folders, add notes, and see your communication history with these professionals.

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So, the next time you pick up the phone to reach one of them, you’ll remember exactly why this person is interesting, how you met them, what you’ve learned about them, and when it’s appropriate to get in touch by going to your Profile Organizer page.

Learn more in this very short video:

To get started, simply click on the “Save Profile” link from any LinkedIn profile. This is a feature exclusively for our Premium Account subscribers, but for we’re giving a 30-day free trial for all of our members to try out. Learn more here.

Taking it to the Next Level

We designed Profile Organizer with a wide range of professionals in mind.
If you are interested in a solution specifically designed for sourcing purposes and for building and maintaining a pipeline of candidates, then, you will prefer LinkedIn Recruiter.

A full-fledged recruiting solution, LinkedIn Recruiter brings advanced search tools, specifically optimized for talent sourcing, and the widest search space on LinkedIn.
Like Profile Organizer, it also comes with contact management features so you can also save contacts in folders, attach notes to these contacts and see your communication history with them all in one place.
Recruiter goes further and lets you share notes and history with your teams to avoid duplication of efforts. You will appreciate seeing a “this candidate is a rock star” or “this candidate is not ready to change jobs right now” note that a colleague may have left on someone’s profile, or knowing that someone on your team has already contacted them.

Recruiter also ensures that the information saved stays with the company if a team member leaves your team and provides OFCCP compliance options. In the case of Profile Organizer, the folders and notes are tied to an individual account.

In any case, whether you are looking for an individual, simple yet powerful, tool for generalists, or seeking an advanced recruitment tool, LinkedIn brings you the solutions to be more productive and build strong candidate pipelines.

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Introducing the new Custom Company Profiles on LinkedIn

Prasad Gune | July 27th, 2009 | 11:56 am
Prasad Gune

Custom Company Profiles enhance your recruiting branding and create a targeted experience for prospective employees.

We just rolled out an exciting new product called Linkedin Custom Company Profiles.

Custom Company Profiles enable companies and other organizations to enhance their recruiting branding and create a targeted experience for prospective candidates on LinkedIn. Using Custom Company Profiles, a company can provide a rich, multimedia overview of careers offered, through a variety of modules including recruitment messaging, employee/recruiter spotlights, jobs, polls and videos.

In our latest version of this product, we are making the company sponsored “Careers” content even more accessible. Candidates can view the Careers content in its own page, which provides a unique URL and additional space for messaging. They access this content through a tab and a very visible module on the company page that highlights key content.

Candidates can be targeted based on industry, seniority, job function and geography. Customers can target multiple groups with differing content, and refresh the content periodically (up to 12 times a year). The product offering also provides ways to drive users to the company profile. Companies can also receive monthly usage reports indicating “demographic” information on visitors to the profile.

Click here for more information on Custom Company Profiles.

Check out the screen shot below for an example:

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