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LinkedIn Recruiter

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What is LinkedIn Recruiter?

LinkedIn Recruiter is a hiring platform for talent professionals that helps find, connect with, and manage the people you want to hire.

Categories & Use Cases

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using LinkedIn Recruiter
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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

21.6%

2,364 installations of 10,945

#2 most frequent

Manufacturing

14.2%

1,557 installations of 10,945

#3 most frequent

Information

13.3%

1,459 installations of 10,945

Reviews

What users are saying about LinkedIn Recruiter.
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LinkedIn Recruiter Definitely Helps To Identify Qualified Candidates

Incentivized
Bonnie LewinsteinView profile
President in Professional Services at Excelsior Executive Search (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

LinkedIn Recruiter is one of our primary methods of identifying candidates for our open client positions. It's used by everyone in the organization (recruiters and researchers) and helps us to identify candidates that are qualified and also potentially open to a conversation with our firm.

Pros

  • Identifies which candidates are actively open to a conversation with an executive search firm
  • Helps to target our search to qualified candidates based on the detail in the profiles
  • Allows us to send a targeted email to 25 recipients at a time.

Cons

  • LinkedIn does not show us when an email has been opened, so we have no idea if the messages are going to a spam folder, getting blocked by a firewall or are just being ignored.
  • LinkedIn does not provide us contact information (phone number/email) unless we are a 1st level connection and the candidate allows us to see that information.
  • LinkedIn support is slow to respond to issues.
  • LinkedIn limits the number of Inmails to 400 unless you are willing to purchase more.

Return on Investment

  • I can attribute at least three placements a year to LinkedIn Recruiter, so approximately $90,000 in sales.
  • I feel that LinkedIn has cost me money when I've tried to post jobs on the site. The applicants I get are not qualified for the position.
  • I love that I can see the history of who I have contacted on LinkedIn Recruiter and if they have responded in the past, so I don't contact them again if they didn't respond.

Alternatives Considered

ZoomInfo and ZoomInfo Engage (Tellwise)

Other Software Used

ZoomInfo Engage (Tellwise), Grammarly, Calendly

One of best Job Board

Incentivized
Indraneel Deshmukh
Senior Technical Recruiter in Human Resources at Global Infotech (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use LinkedIn Recruiter for sourcing candidates for the role we have. LinkedIn Recruiter offers wide pool of candidates available in job market with a wide range of filters we can apply while searching for candidates with specific skills and experience. LinkedIn Recruiter also provides In mails which help reaching out to candidates, the reminder feature works fantastic if any candidate does not respond in specific time frame. Additionally features like Open to work helps a lot as this provides pool of candidate who are specifically looking for jobs.

Pros

  • Boolean search string works well, helps in finding candidates with specific skills.
  • Open to Work filter and highly interested filters works fantastic, helps in finding people who are available and looking.
  • Field of study feature helps in targeting candidates with specific education background, more helpful finding recent grad candidates

Cons

  • Should have a feature to target specific certifications
  • Should have a feature to target candidates with recommendations
  • Skills shows only candidates who has endorsed those skills, can be improved, many of tools are not updated here

Return on Investment

  • Improved the quality of candidates as compared to other job boards
  • Pool of candidates has improved which increases the chances hires
  • Cost is on the higher side but provides best in class features so ROI is better in terms of other tools

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Dice.com and Monster.com

Other Software Used

Dice.com, Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com

Global Tool for the recruiters

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Professional Services (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used LinkedIn Recruiter for job positing and sourcing the resume using the Boolean search. I helps to save my time where I just need to post the required information what we need for the job. I helps to get the resume from all the locations even the resume not the portals.

Pros

  • Job positing
  • Direct messaging
  • Premium views

Cons

  • Need to increase inmail numbers

Return on Investment

  • Bit costlier
  • Good response for the posting
  • We can save more time and portal view as it is more responsive

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Prohire and Dice.com

Great Tool But Expensive

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Corporate (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have LinkedIn Recruiter seats for most of our Recruiting team and use it to source candidates. On the plus side, finding candidates via LinkedIn Recruiter is usually a positive experience. But getting candidates to respond via the LinkedIn Recruiter proprietary messaging system continues to be a challenge.

Pros

  • Sourcing candidates
  • Broadcasting our openings
  • Outreach beyond a Recruiters connected network

Cons

  • The LinkedIn Recruiter proprietary messaging system remains a challenge
  • Transitioning from LinkedIn to LinkedIn Recruiter is clunky.

Return on Investment

  • We do get hires from LinkedIn Recruiter
  • We'd like to see more hires to justify the cost.

Usability

Other Software Used

Monster.com, Indeed Hiring Platform

Currently the best tool out there for sourcing

Incentivized
Verified User
Contributor in Human Resources (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it as a recruiter to source candidates for various open roles and post sponsored jobs on LinkedIn for more visibility. For the posted jobs, I use the talent pool and recommended matches to find candidates, and utilize the AI tool for writing outreach messages. LinkedIn Recruiter helps us to fill more challenging positions faster than if we solely posted them through our ATS.

Pros

  • matching candidates to open jobs based on skills, interaction with our company
  • organizing our data and providing detailed analytics
  • creating an easier way to reach out to candidates and store pipeline info in projects

Cons

  • AI outreach tool needs improvement for drafting messages
  • candidate matches are not always relevant

Return on Investment

  • has decreased our time to fill for roles
  • provides us with high quality candidates that we otherwise would not have found

Usability

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