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LinkedIn is rolling out a number of new and informative webcasts featuring cutting-edge approaches to social recruiting. Don’t miss out on learning from Talent Acquisition leaders, recruiting experts and the LinkedIn Talent Team during these upcoming events:

LinkedIn Recruiting Solutions: Customers Unplugged (April 13)
Want to know exactly how Talent Acquisition leaders are using LinkedIn to get an edge in hiring top talent? Here’s your chance. Join us for a conversation with Sheila Riordan of Health Net and Maria Perez of Bekaert Specialty Films, two of LinkedIn’s most progressive customers. This webcast is for anyone who wants to learn more about adopting LinkedIn solutions for their recruiting organization.

LinkedIn has just made the most important third-party recruiter networking technique I learned in the good ‘ol days available to everyone. This is a bad day for the old-timers like me, but good for everyone else who wants to quickly find great candidates for hard-to-fill jobs.

I call the technique the cherry-picker, or the leveraged-referral, or the how to really get some great pre-qualified candidate names who will call you back. You’ll call it amazing. If you have an employee referral program (ERP), you’ll be able to boost its effectiveness 50-100% using this new LinkedIn Recruiter feature.

LinkedIn just rolled out an exciting new feature that makes it even easier to reach qualified candidates automatically. Members who view jobs on LinkedIn will now receive targeted job recommendations automatically via email. Powered by LinkedIn’s ‘Jobs You May Be Interested In’ system, the emails include jobs that are personalized for each recipient based on his or her professional profile.

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.