Did LinkedIn Just Make Your Recruiting Job Harder?
April 28th, 2010 by Louis P. Kadetsky, CPC
LinkedIn is pretty much the premier social networking platform in the business world. In addition to calling it home for resumes and professional contacts, not to mention endorsements from clients past and present, LinkedIn offers plenty of job ads and postings – and makes it easier than ever for a job-seeker to reach a hiring manager or corporate recruiter directly. Of course, this could exacerbate one of the greatest challenges already faced by the world’s hiring infrastructure: over-communication.
This isn’t exactly a new theme on my blog – as it isn’t in the corporate recruiting profession. Twenty years ago, the profession looked nothing like it does now. With the advent of websites – and then websites dedicated to the job market and attracting millions of people – the number of resumes submitted for a single position surged. Then, social media took us through this same growth explosion again, compounding the communication that corporate recruiters and hiring managers receive from prospective employers.
LinkedIn’s new “Job Seeker Premium Account” throws another variable into the mix. By paying for this type of service, users of the social networking platform can move to the top of a hiring manager’s list when applying for a position and send “InMail” (i.e., initiate direct contact). Essentially, they can do the sorts of things that corporate recruiters and hiring managers probably don’t want to see happen.
Handling the flow of applicant communications could get more complicated.
With KGTiger’s BYTE service, however, the situation becomes more manageable. We specialize in handling large volumes of direct contact on behalf of corporate recruiters. Sitting in between your organization and LinkedIn, BYTE will “catch” and hand this direct communication for you, sifting out the messages and inquiries that are the highest value or priority and getting those to the top of your list – reducing the possibility that you “just missed” a great new candidate!
Partner with KGTiger, and you’ll get the best that LinkedIn has to offer – a larger pool of viable candidates – without disrupting your operation in the process.
[Source: LinkedIn]