How LinkedIn Recruiter Speeds up Searches

How LinkedIn Recruiter Speeds up Searches This post is sponsored by LinkedIn. The new LinkedIn Recruiter is helping talent acquisition  professionals take a central role in business strategy. In recruitment, as in all areas of business, time is of the essence. Between meetings  with hiring managers or clients, candidate interviews and conference calls, recruiters â€"  both agency and in-house often find themselves lacking time to complete their single-  most important task: finding the right talent for a role. To make it easier to pinpoint the right person faster, LinkedIn recently rolled out its  newly redesigned LinkedIn Recruiter product, the flagship product from its Talent  Solutions business already used by 41,000 companies worldwide. The new innovations  in the product are designed to help recruiters both in-house and agency and  business owners find and engage the best talent faster by tapping into LinkedIn’s  insights from its 414m members worldwide.  The changes to LinkedIn Recruiter are expected to make the lives of recruiters easier  than ever, and make it more accessible to non-specialists who are responsible for talent  acquisition as part of their role, including small business owners and HR teams. The  updates will make it possible for them to bring new data insights to inform the hiring  conversations they have with business leaders. It’s all part of LinkedIn’s drive to evolve  recruitment professionals to be more strategic advisors for their organisation. A number of companies have had special early access to the new version of the  product, including SAP. Commenting on the new product, Vice President of Global  Sourcing and Employer Branding, Matthew Jeffrey, says, “LinkedIn offers the insights  we need to get a better view of the talent in our key markets in the UK and worldwide.  SAP is very excited about the newest version of Recruiter. It is even more intuitive,  enabling us to enter the names of top performers in our teams and instantly get back a  list of professionals with similar skills and experience. The right data insights combined  with helping us find the best talent as quickly and efficiently as possible is a powerful  combination.” So how does the  new LinkedIn Recruiter  do it? Here are three stand-out changes to look out for to  make the most of the new features: 1. Replicate the best hires For many recruiters looking for their next top hire, it’s often easier to say who they’re  looking for rather than what skills they want. With the new tool, users can type in the  name of top employees into Recruiter and its smart matching algorithms will serve up a  list of professionals with similar skills and experience. In Recruiter these are called Ideal  Candidates and can be a quick and effective way to let the data do the hard work on  finding great talent. 2. Assess talent pools in real time For recruiters involved in planning new growth strategies for their company, one of the  first questions should be how are they going to effectively find the right talent to make  the business initiatives a success. LinkedIn Recruiter can now show users the available  talent pool available to them based on the specific skills and experience they’re looking  for. The number of available candidates will immediately update depending on how  broad or narrow they make their search, giving them an accurate idea of how easy or  hard it will be to find the skills they need. 3. Prioritise the most-likely candidates first Filling critical roles is often about speed as much as the right skills and experience. The  new LinkedIn Recruiter helps highlight the candidates most likely to respond to a  recruiter by looking at the digital cues that suggest they might show an interest in an  organisation. This includes candidates that already have connections within the  company, those who followed its Company Page or liked, commented on, or shared a  relevant update, and even previous job applicants. These ‘Spotlight’ candidates are two-  to-three times more likely to respond to a recruiter, increasing the speed of finding the  best talent. So far, employers using the tool have seen some impressive success. Initial results  show a 17 per cent reduction in the number of searches, a 42 per cent uplift in profiles  viewed per search, and recruiters are saving 23 per cent more of the profiles they find.  Together, these numbers indicate that recruiters are finding more relevant candidates  with less effort and in a shorter amount of time. Dan Dackombe is the sales director for LinkedIn  Talent Solutions EMEA.  Image: Shutterstock