As a charter customer of Talent Pipeline, PepsiCo was fortunate to be one of the first six companies on the planet to experience LinkedIn’s new product. So far, the recruiters have been raving about this tool and love using it.
As with any new product install, there are best practices you should follow to get the strongest results for your recruiting team. Below are five tips that helped us get up and running fast so that our recruiters could easily adopt and leverage the system.
Last October, when we announced Talent Pipeline at our Talent Connect conference, the response was overwhelming—roaring applause and even some cheers from the audience (especially when LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner said “it’s Free”). Building and managing a pipeline of talent is becoming essential in this competitive, global economy and recruiting organizations have not had a simple solution to make this a reality. Until now.
This past weekend, we began the process of upgrading LinkedIn Recruiter accounts with powerful new capabilities to track and manage talent leads from any source, before they enter your ATS, right in LinkedIn Recruiter. Whether you have resumes, spreadsheets, or just a business card from a promising candidate, you will have the ability to add these individuals to Recruiter. No more scattered and lost leads across the recruiting team; they can all be in one place. What’s truly unique about our solution is that records you create for your leads are linked to their LinkedIn profile. Information automatically stays up to date as members update their profiles, so you don’t have to do the work yourself. And of course you get the additional insight from status updates, shared connections, skills, recommendations and more to help you really connect with individuals you are interested in.
Talent Connect is back in Las Vegas this October 10-12, 2012!
Tuesday at Talent Connect opened with a series of keynote sessions, starting with an introduction by LinkedIn head of HR, Steve Cadigan with the head of Hiring Solutions Mike Gamson and headlined by CEO Jeff Weiner (see the keynote video). Jeff shared the behavioral changes that are afoot: the way we go online to represent ourselves, network and find insights is fundamentally transforming the way we work. LinkedIn is replacing the resume, and ultimately the business card and the rolodex, says Jeff. But candidates are no longer constrained to their desktops, or even to LinkedIn.com for that matter. As a recruiter, in order to access and organize all the quality talent leads out there, you need a reliable platform to bring it all under one roof. And with that, Jeff and VP of Products David Hahn introduced LinkedIn Talent Pipeline – a single place to keep all your talent prospects (whether or not you found them on LinkedIn), connect them to their LinkedIn profiles to get greater insight, and provide access to everyone on your recruiting team. It’s coming in 2012 and will be included with LinkedIn Recruiter, so watch for more updates in the next few weeks. As Jeff said, Talent Acquisition professionals, with LinkedIn’s help, have been transforming recruiting. Together, we want to transform it again.
Talent Connect is back in Las Vegas this October 10-12, 2012!
Talent Connect 2011, LinkedIn’s second annual Recruiting Solutions customer conference, kicked off today at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The highly anticipated event is gathering more than 1800 professionals in the recruiting industry (almost triple the size of last year!), where they will be hearing best practices from recruiting professionals at the cutting edge of talent acquisition. Here is a quick summary of today’s sessions, which were mostly led by LinkedIn product specialists.
