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Part VI of our interview series features Tom Brouchoud, SanDisk’s Senior Manager of Global Talent Acquisition, who just celebrated his 10-year anniversary with the company.  SanDisk’s recruitment needs span the globe, with locations in the United States, Japan, Israel, and across Europe and the Asia-Pacific regions. Why does your company focus on recruiting passive candidates? Tom Brouchoud, Senior Manager, Global Talent Acquisition at SanDisk

Often, the best candidates are not out there looking for jobs. SanDisk hires the best people to advance our technology so we can continue to be the world’s largest provider of Flash memory storage solutions.  Finding great talent takes research!  SanDisk always pushes the engineering envelope, researching and developing state of the art technologies, and the Talent Acquisition team needs to target, contact, attract and hire these amazing people.

In today’s Silicon Valley, engineering talent is as sought after by companies as gold was by the first prospectors in the Wild West. Talent is a company’s most important asset, so we decided to use LinkedIn’s data insights to discover which startups are grabbing the attention of San Francisco Bay Area engineers.

In the Bay Area alone, there are more than 240,000 professionals on LinkedIn in engineering and related roles. They use LinkedIn to establish their professional profiles, build their networks and get the insights they need to be great at their jobs. They also use LinkedIn to learn more about companies of interest and their employees. This includes visiting profiles of employees looking for common connections, checking out LinkedIn Company Pages, and following companies using the LinkedIn Company Follow button to keep up to speed with relevant news and career opportunities.