The LinkedIn Talent Blog

7 Challenges, 7 Solutions from Talent Connect Australia 2013

Carla Glavonjic — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:00:10 +0000

Earlier this month over 500 talent acquisition professionals attended Talent Connect Australia (scroll down to see the highlights from Twitter). The day was packed with speakers sharing their stories and tips for overcoming your most pressing recruiting challenges. In no particular order, here are seven challenges and their corresponding solutions: 1. Your hiring managers doubt [...]

How Intel Leverages Talent Communities in Asia [VIDEO]

Pooja Chhabria — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:00:07 +0000

Every marketer craves a strong brand and an army of raving customer advocates. Today’s top HR organizations are borrowing heavily from their marketing colleagues’ toolkits as they build strong employer brands and talent communities. The story is no different in India, where talent brand is the new wave of attracting and acquiring desired quality. 77 [...]

Top 10 Ways To Promote Your Employer Brand on LinkedIn

Mckenzie Lock — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:29:41 +0000

You’ve probably used or heard about many of LinkedIn’s tools for employer branding. Lots of options can be overwhelming though. Sometimes a handy list with everything in one place is just what you need. No matter where you are in your talent brand journey – starting out, making a modest investment, or going all out [...]

Your 2023 Predictions for Talent Acquisition

Mckenzie Lock — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:30:59 +0000

Anniversaries are funny things. They can make us nostalgic (“I can’t believe its been ten years since we got married. Man were we naive…”), panicked (“It’s been HOW many years since I graduated?”) or proud, (“Look at how much she’s grown!”). But the best thing about anniversaries is their ability to make us look ahead [...]

Friday Musings of a Passive Candidate Recruiter

LouAdler — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:15:15 +0000

I’m dumbfounded that recruiters run these great searches, find some names of great people, than send some InMail that uses the word “awesome job” or “great career move”, and then wonder why nobody responds. The key point is that your message is phony. To the receiver it just doesn’t ring true. They know it’s sent [...]

From Paper Mess to Recruiting Success, Meet CheckIn

Liz Burstein — Thu, 09 May 2013 06:51:47 +0000

Today, I’m excited to introduce CheckIn – the newest member of the LinkedIn Talent Solutions product family that we unveiled at Talent Connect Australia 2013. CheckIn is a mobile app that radically simplifies how recruiters collect and manage candidate information at events. We built CheckIn for two reasons. First, the fastest growing demographic on LinkedIn [...]

Singapore’s Most InDemand Employers: The Rankings Revealed

Feon Ang — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:40:41 +0000

We recently announced the New York City’s Top 20 InDemand employers, and now it’s Singapore’s turn to take the limelight! At Connect in Singapore (#ConnectinSing) this week we unveiled the list of the most InDemand employers in Singapore. IBM, Microsoft, and Accenture topped the list, which also included four homegrown companies: SingTel at #12, with [...]

Here’s What Talent Acquisition Will Look Like in 10 Years

Dan Shapero — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:30:19 +0000

This week, LinkedIn celebrates its 10 year anniversary. So much has changed in the last 10 years, and based on the introduction of new technology and increased pressure to perform, we can only expect continued innovation in the coming decade. Consider how different talent acquisition is today compared to 2003: Social platforms have transformed the [...]

Talent Acquisition and Marketing: Power Couple or Odd Couple?

Leela Srinivasan — Mon, 06 May 2013 22:02:31 +0000

No matter where you go in the world, the dynamic between Talent Acquisition and Marketing is firmly in the spotlight. And yet, judging by the questions we field from industry practitioners, the relationship between the two is just as likely to be classified ‘odd couple’ as ‘power couple’. It’s easy to explain the spike in [...]

The 9-Point Business Case for Hiring College Grads

Steven Rothberg — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:36:21 +0000

It is apparent to most that the U.S. labor market continues to slowly recover from the depths of the recent Great Recession. As employers find it increasingly hard to secure qualified talent for professional positions, more and more of those employers are hiring college and university students for internships, part-time jobs, and seasonal positions. They’re [...]