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Is your company recruiting in India? Prepare to think and act very differently.

First, the good news: hiring in India remains healthy. According to our study of 255 India-based corporate recruiting leaders, three quarters of companies have seen their hiring volume either increase (53 percent) or stay the same (22 percent) in 2012. This puts India well ahead of many other markets: on average, 38 percent of 3,000+ recruiting leaders surveyed globally said their hiring volume was up this year.

Note: related whitepaper now available for download on our Corporate Recruiting Solutions website.

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.

As you know, we listen very closely to customer feedback here at LinkedIn. This year alone, LinkedIn Recruiter customers have submitted hundreds of comments and suggestions on ways to further strengthen their core sourcing tool. And to date, we’ve acted on over 50 of them.

One comment that has continually bubbled to the surface is this: “Your refinement filters are incredible, but I’d love to be able to tailor them to suit MY specific sourcing needs, especially for the searches I run all the time.”