Recently, LinkedIn’s head of recruiting, Brendan Browne, shares a few of his insights about the current state of recruiting – including where most recruiters are falling short.
If you are like most professionals, you want to make more money. Who doesn’t, right? Most of us have an idea of where our current salary falls on the wage scale in comparison to other professionals with similar experience and credentials. What if you could get the full picture of how much you could and should be making? LinkedIn Salary will do this for you.
On the top of the list of important social sites for recruiting is LinkedIn. It’s the king of the professional connection – that is if your profile is up to par with the thousands of other professionals in your industry vying for the same top positions with industry leading organizations.
All employees want to work for the best companies, and all companies want to be regarded as a top company to work for.
Social media has become an essential recruiting tool, and LinkedIn is leading the way. 94% of recruiters use LinkedIn to find potential candidates and seek out recruiting opportunities, and about three quarters of recruiters plan to invest more into social recruiting in the coming years.
There is no question that LinkedIn is an effective way to connect with other like-minded business professionals – What it is NOT, is a replacement for hiring a recruiter.
For job seekers, having an optimized LinkedIn profile is your best bet to being found for a new opportunity… and even if you’re not job searching, you never know what connections or opportunities are out there. I spend a lot of time looking for candidates on LinkedIn, and I’m sharing the 4 fastest and easiest LinkedIn profile fixes that will help you get found by a headhunter.
IQ PARTNERS’ Senior Partner Randy Quarin was recently interviewed by the Globe and Mail for one of their Editors’ Picks on job hunting in the selfie era. The article discusses how the industry has changed and what is currently changing in the recruiting game, such as video interviews and the use of LinkedIn and other social media sites. You can read the full article here:
