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Attracting and retaining top talent is critical to a small company’s growth and success, yet recruiting is just one of many hats worn by small business leaders.  So how do you find quality talent when it’s a part-time job?

To help answer this question, we teamed up with RecruitLoop in San Francisco last week to discuss ‘hiring hacks’: efficient and effective recruiting tactics for small companies without an in-house recruiting manager.  We were joined by a panel of seasoned professionals from a range of backgrounds:

Every marketer craves a strong brand and an army of raving customer advocates. Today’s top HR organizations are borrowing heavily from their marketing colleagues’ toolkits as they build strong employer brands and talent communities.

The story is no different in India, where talent brand is the new wave of attracting and acquiring desired quality. 77 percent of India recruiters agree that employer brand is a top priority for their organization and 90 percent of Indian companies are either increasing or maintaining their investment in this area.

Today, I’m excited to introduce CheckIn – the newest member of the LinkedIn Talent Solutions product family that we unveiled at Talent Connect Australia 2013. CheckIn is a mobile app that radically simplifies how recruiters collect and manage candidate information at events.

We built CheckIn for two reasons. First, the fastest growing demographic on LinkedIn is students and recent graduates, who now comprise more than 30 million of our more than 225 million members. Second, lots of recruiters annually fill hundreds to thousands of internships and entry-level jobs via campus events. Unfortunately, most of the products used to collect student and recent-graduate information at campus events are archaic and cumbersome.

Our company rankings just got more interesting. Last year we gave you the world’s Most InDemand Employers, along with sub-lists for specific countries and functions. Now we’re taking our insights down to the city level and just today at Connect in New York, we announced the Big Apple’s winners.

So where do New Yorkers most want to work? Based on LinkedIn’s massive data set – and the actual actions of over five million professionals residing in the New York area* – here’s a snapshot of the city’s professional landscape and it’s most desirable employers.