LinkedIn Talent Solutions Reviews and Ratings

Name: LinkedIn Talent Solutions
Rating: 8.9 (36 reviews)
Author: LinkedIn

Rating: 8.9 out of 10

Score

8.9 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for LinkedIn Talent Solutions are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Intuitive User Interface: Users have found the user interface of the Recruiter platform to be easy to navigate and intuitive once they became familiar with it. This indicates that the platform has a user-friendly design that allows users to quickly adapt to its features.

Wide Variety of Search Filters: Many reviewers have appreciated the extensive range of search filters available on the Recruiter platform, enabling them to customize their candidate searches based on specific criteria. This suggests that the platform offers a comprehensive set of search options, enhancing the user's ability to find suitable candidates.

Accessible Help Center: The help center on the Recruiter platform is easily accessible and provides prompt assistance in resolving issues. Users value this feature as it ensures a smooth experience and underscores the platform's commitment to providing helpful resources and support.

Reviews

18 Reviews

A recruitment team must

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 10, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Linkedin Talent Solutions as our main way to passively find candidates. We use it internally to reach out to people for our team and find qualified, interested candidates for our clients' positions. We also use it to post roles- this gives us extra exposure for those paid slots to advertise to potential candidates.

Pros

UI - Pretty easy to navigate once you get the hang of it.
Large platform of candidates. I can't find a better platform for finding professional candidates
Ability to post jobs - easy to use. Attracts more of the right qualified candidates than any platform that I have posted on.

Cons

I think training could be improved. It is a complex product. There are some basics to learn, but for the price you pay, I would love to see more regular training on optimization.
It is very expensive.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think that if you are someone who has to make hires. This platform is a must. While it is very expensive, it will pay for itself if you can utilize it correctly and find candidates. This is more for recruitment and reaching out. I would recommend their sales platform if you are trying to connect from a business standpoint, not recruitment.

Brandi Berggren

Director of Recruiting Consulting in Human Resources at HirexHire (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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Linkedin Talent solutions. Make sure you need it before you get it.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Talent Solutions is currently being used for recruitment purposes. We post jobs and actively search for candidates through our recruiter profiles. The only team using the tool is people operations, a total of 5 people. And it is definitely our most important, quick, and volume generator sourcing tool. The hired vs applications rates are not the best but definitely the best option in the market.

Pros

Sourcing new talent
Promoting job posts/openings
Building an audience

Cons

Building an audience and careers page. It can definitely improve
Pricing is a big one
Finally, using it as a recruitment platform. It still lacks integrations and smooth features to be the preferred tool for this.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are a first-world or international company, LinkedIn talent solutions are your go-to tool. Also, consider the profiles you are looking for, as colleagues have tried these tools in the past for very operational roles and it wasn't suited. If you are looking for business, marketing, technology, digital and specialized profiles this is your tool! Active sourcing is their best feature. You can search and filter qualified talent in a sec.

Carlos Andrés Patiño

Talent & Culture Champion L4 in Human Resources at Born Again Media (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Quality Candidate Finder

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used to find qualified candidates to fill our open positions. We don't have to spend hours looking through resumes anymore.

Pros

It does a good job of finding quality candidates.
It finds a large number of candidates, providing options.

Cons

Filtering candidates by location and not other criteria.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is best suited for a banking or retail environment where there is a lot of turnovers. Candidates are typically around this skill and scholastic level.

Verified User

Compensation & Benefits Administrator in Human Resources (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

LinkedIn for high-level role searches

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used mostly in our communications and recruiting teams currently for job postings and advertising

Pros

Quick job postings
Easy advertising
Sponsoring jobs on your own

Cons

Extra level users
How to search for candidates

Likelihood to Recommend

It is great for a higher level manger level role when trying to find candidates. I would say it is challenging to find entry level workers on LinkedIn

Verified User

Recruiting Manager in Human Resources (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Great

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 31, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

LinkedIn Talent Solutions has helped us a lot. It serves a vital role in our work. We find those candidates who are actively looking for a job change and are not much interested to update their status on job portals. Here in LinkedIn, one can interact with employees of the company from most senior to any level and of any department directly by simply connecting them in your network or by sending in emails. One can find actively candidate looking for a change and you can view their certificates, work done, education, discuss the role. Unlike other job portals, you can interact and create your friend/network list with people of your concern. You can raise concerns with any product and services of any company like Twitter and other social networks. as per my opinion if the LinkedIn talent solution improves the filter applied for candidate sourcing this will be great. Also if they can add an option of the best time to contact and best way to contact to open to a work candidate. In short, this is the best platform for me for sourcing candidates.

Pros

Communication

Cons

Area of Job opening

Likelihood to Recommend

It helps me in reaching the people who are not available on any other job portals and also with new options available, we can see which candidates are "open for work."

Namrata Tandon

Manager in Customer Service at California Design Den (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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LinkedIn Talent Solutions Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 31, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the site to search for candidates for all departments across the whole company. I helps by providing a range of candidates for our managers to review.

Pros

Provide candidates with the skills we are looking for
Helps narrow down our list of qualified candidates
It is easy to use for all members of our Recruiting team

Cons

In addition to the technical skills of the candidates, I would like to see the soft skills
The ability to search for soft skills

Likelihood to Recommend

N/A

Verified User

Deputy Comptroller in Finance and Accounting (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Great for finding professionals with major skills and experience

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

October 31, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used by recruitment teams to find candidates to passive recruit for our positions. We don’t use their application features in LinkedIn. All candidates are redirected to our external application when they hit the apply button in LinkedIn. We also use this to send InMails to candidates we would like to apply for our roles. Secondarily LinkedIn Talent Solutions allows us to post our jobs on their network for people to find on their own.

Pros

Recommends candidates
Communication ability with untapped candidate market
Professionalism in recruitment activities
Connects to business LinkedIn page

Cons

Job posting setup
Project organization
Candidate redirection

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for finding candidates if you are not getting a lot of applicants or qualified applicants. Also well suited to professional jobs where a bachelors degree or higher is required due to the professionalism of the LinkedIn Brand. Talent Solutions would not be suited for a company with a lot of openings or growth as their organization of projects and job posts is not easy. Additionally long term roles or forever open roles wouldn’t work well with LinkedIn Talent as their postings expire every two weeks automatically and you have to reset the posting. This can cause issues with your overall analytics of data for applicant tracking and marketing in the recruitment area.

Verified User

Human Resources Generalist in Human Resources (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

A significant investment, but a worthwhile one for quality professional candidates

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 31, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am an HR department of one, which means I am the sole recruiting manager as well. LinkedIn Talent Solutions is my primary source for reaching passive candidates, as well as posting job ads on a pay-per-click basis.

Pros

It's easy to create and save candidate searches
LinkedIn Talent Solutions is by far the best source of potential candidates, both in quantity and quality
Easy to use, intuitive UX

Cons

The cost is significant, especially for the more robust options
You can't easily collaborate with team members unless they have a license as well
Support tickets can take awhile to resolve, I've had one (bug with spend tracking) that took 2 months to resolve

Likelihood to Recommend

LinkedIn Talent Solutions is one of the only recruiting sources I rely on for quality candidates. It's clear that it is the largest network of professional candidates, which lets me feel confident that I'm using my recruiting budget wisely. I appreciate that there are multiple options to choose from to suit a variety of companies/budgets, and there is true value in LinkedIn Talent Solutions as an investment, however even the most inexpensive option could still be too pricey for smaller companies.

Ali Aguilar

Operations & HR Specialist in Human Resources at Envisionit (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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Right Fit if the Fit is Right (Know Your Firm!)

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 31, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This tool simply produces the results we need - it is THE solution for us to find and place top technical and professional talent, second only to our robust associate referral program.

Pros

Ability to granularly refine a search
Ability for candidates to be open to work without current employer knowing
Ability to look at candidates in a stealth mode

Cons

Cost, of course
Data and Reporting is weak

Likelihood to Recommend

This tool is great for highly technical/skilled industries and firms. I would not recommend it for industrial or light industrial firms or industries.

Verified User

Human Resources in Human Resources (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Mixed Feelings

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

October 30, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use LinkedIn Recruiter in my department to uncover talent for open jobs I have with my clients. I am an executive search consultant for a business management consulting firm. I am solely responsible for finding candidates for our client. I am able to pinpoint specific candidates who match the requirements I'm looking for, in the geographic location I am searching in, as well as organize the candidates and reach out to them in a very organized fashion.

Pros

Boolean searches
Project Set-up
Post Jobs
I love that you can have the job applicants go straight to your url

Cons

Adding more detail to the "look" of job descriptions, bullet points, highlights, etc.
Templates to send to candidates to get better response rates on Inmails!
More InMails! Since the response rates are low....
Better way to alert LinkedIn users that they have an email waiting or someone who wants to connect with them. More interactive

Likelihood to Recommend

LinkedIn Talent Solutions is best suited for higher-level, more professional roles in contrast to lower-level assembler, production roles for candidates. I have found that the lower level candidates don't have LinkedIn profiles, so there's no sense in posting on LinkedIn for these roles. LinkedIn Talent Solutions is our go-to for the sweet spot roles that we hire for!

Jen Chelini

Executive Search Consultant in Human Resources at Leap Solutions Group, Inc. (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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