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Articles posted in April 2013

  • Today we are excited to announce LinkedIn Recruiter’s brand new homepage. The redesigned page introduces new tools for even more efficient hiring, prioritizes the features you use most, and loads faster to help you be more productive in your daily recruiting activities.

    Its “look and feel” more closely resembles LinkedIn.com, which makes the user experience more intuitive and simple. As LinkedIn Talent Solutions’ Head of Product Parker Barrile noted during today’s homepage launch event, “Most recruiting products are outdated and designed for CIOs, not recruiters. Fortunately, the consumerization of the enterprise has begun to infiltrate the recruiting industry and is influencing a new generation of products. Consumerization means putting the user’s priorities first.”

  • As the web is increasingly going mobile, recruiting teams must find ways to reach candidates on the devices they use all day long. LinkedIn has become the home to professionals on the mobile web, with more than 23% of unique users coming from our mobile apps. Starting today, we’re making it easy for recruiters to reach these on-the-go professionals with job opportunities by adding recommended jobs to the LinkedIn mobile experience.

    As in many industries, talent acquisition leaders need strategies that work both on the desktop and on the smaller screen. Some are already building mobile websites and apps to reach candidates on their phones. But how do you convince people to visit these sites in the first place? Reaching passive candidates is especially difficult, since they’re unlikely to find mobile careers websites, and even less likely to download job-seeking apps.