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Late last week we shared on our main blog how we’ve simplified the jobseeker experience on LinkedIn. Our recent improvements make it easier than ever for our members to find relevant career opportunities from your company on our site.

We’ve added a new feature to help our members see how they are connected to companies in their network and browse their job postings, making it easier for them to find and engage the right employers. Early results have been outstanding: LinkedIn Career Pages have seen a big boost in traffic thanks to this new feature.

Talent Acquisition leaders are haunted by rejection and failed love stories of the past. They worry about losing the favor of CEOs and becoming social workers and therapists instead of strategic business partners and leaders. The problem is that plenty of people love their therapists and social workers. Many do not love recruiters.

At LinkedIn we sure do love our interns. Amazingly, our campus recruiting program didn’t exist three years ago, but we’ve been able to scale it rapidly and score major successes since we launched, including convincing around 85 percent of interns who receive offers to accept them.

We attribute our approval ratings to several things, all of which essentially fall into the category of showing our interns just how much we care.

When it comes to talent acquisition, as with many other things in life, timing is everything.

In my 13 years spent recruiting throughout Europe, I missed out on my fair share of candidates. There’s nothing more frustrating than losing the perfect hire because headcount plans aren’t cemented yet or a requisition isn’t approved.