Reap the Benefits of LinkedIn

linkedinRecruitment and LinkedIn go hand in hand these days. Recruiters are using LinkedIn to post jobs, collect CVs and view profiles. Between recommendations, summary, profile and endorsement, LinkedIn seems to be a better organized representative of a candidate as a professional than your CV can ever be.

In these circumstances, candidates also seem to be looking for the employee’s company resume on LinkedIn. To hire best talent from this portal, use some tips to develop your company’s identity as a recruiter and yield better results:

  • Develop your company’s profile; add your product and service information, link to your company’s website, blogs and other WebPages. Connect your profile with company’s employees and their recommendations and also with client’s recommendations.
  • Allow candidates to directly contact you through your LinkedIn profile. Their profile will tell you a lot more about them than their CVs.
  • View the candidate’s profile and verify his or her credentials online before you call them. A candidate has his previous employers, projects, mentors and clients added in their LinkedIn account making the vetting process incredibly easy.
  • LinkedIn provides with services such as InMails that can help you in reaching out to the candidate much more easily. Also use it to connect with your network of professional to help you choose the right candidates.
  • Recruiters can formally post jobs on LinkedIn for a fee or post them informally through status updates and postings in related groups. This way you can attract the right kinds of candidates for your job.
  • Regularly participate in groups and post statuses. This gives your company a face and keeps your organization in the minds of the candidates. This also builds credibility in your clients.
  • Use question and answer section in the groups to attract experts and quality crowd to your company as well as the department with open positions. This will give you an idea of candidate’s psyche as well.
  • Ask around with your employees to look for suitable candidates for an opening in the office. Employees know the job descriptions of possible openings well and can refer actually suitable candidates for the job.
  • Use LinkedIn Recruiters to search for the perfect candidate by filling out the experience and expertise you are looking for, this way you will get candidates that are match made in heaven.

Follow these tips and thank us in the comment box when you find your perfect candidate.

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