Recruiting with LinkedIn Blog

5 Fundamental Truths About Brand and Employee Engagement

Rita Shor — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:00:45 +0000

Companies with the most loyal customers also tend to have the most brand-engaged employees; employees that live the brand promise. Your employees have the unique ability to foster deep brand engagements with not only customers, but also with suppliers, business partners, and virtually all of your company’s key stakeholders. How do the world’s most successful [...]

Top Talent in a Flash: How SanDisk’s Tom Brouchoud Wins with Passive Candidates

Leela Srinivasan — Thu, 24 May 2012 14:30:56 +0000

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, [...]

It Takes Two: Passive Candidate Recruiting from Both Sides of the Table

Leela Srinivasan — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:00:41 +0000

I. THE RECRUITER Meet Greg Harezlak, Technical Sourcer at San Francisco-based start-up TinyCo. Greg started out at a third party agency for a couple of years before moving in-house at TinyCo. From engineers to artists to product managers, Greg fills almost all of the company’s positions with passive candidates. During our conversation, he conveyed such an [...]

Five tips for a successful implementation of LinkedIn Talent Pipeline

Jim Schnyder — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:00:48 +0000

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 [...]

Mastering the Basics: Passive Candidate Recruiting for Newcomers

Leela Srinivasan — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:55:18 +0000

Think you need deep experience to ace passive candidate recruiting? Not at all. Jacqueline Benedetti has been with Toronto-based Tim Hortons for about five years, first in Operations and now in HR as a Talent Acquisition Specialist. She’s been formally recruiting for less than a year, yet had some of the highest InMail response rates [...]

The Top 10 tech startups best positioned to strike engineering gold

James Raybould — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:00:33 +0000

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 [...]

Talent Pipeline is here!

Prasad Gune — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:24:11 +0000

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 [...]

Five questions you must ask your hiring manager

Leela Srinivasan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:00:02 +0000

And other great passive talent tips from Betfair’s Rachel Riddington How do you set yourself up for success with passive candidates? You start by asking your hiring managers five key questions that quickly elevate your understanding of the role and the type of person who will be successful in it, according to Rachel Riddington, a sourcing [...]

Bersin IMPACT Conference, Told in 20 Tweets

Leela Srinivasan — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:55:56 +0000

Bersin & Associates has hosted its IMPACT conference for five years now, but it’s only in the last year or two that talent acquisition has become a significant portion of the program. I had the chance to attend the event in St. Petersburg, FL last week and was impressed by the caliber of the attendees and the discussion. Rather than [...]

Making Just-in-Time Talent a Reality

jschnyder — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:00:29 +0000

Jim Schnyder has spent the last 11 years within the recruiting organization at PepsiCo, a $60B+ global company that counts Pepsi, Frito Lay, Tropicana, Quaker, Gatorade and many other household names in its stable of brands. He is SourceCon’s reigning GrandMaster Sourcer. He also headed up the initial rollout of LinkedIn’s Talent Pipeline across PepsiCo’s [...]