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LinkedIn Talent Solutions

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What is LinkedIn Talent Solutions?

LinkedIn Talent Solutions is a talent intelligence platform that provides two talent products, talent acquisition news, recruiting tools and best practices on LinkedIn. Job Posts, for hiring managers at small or medium-sized companies who hire sporadically, allows free posting of…

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LinkedIn Talent Solutions is a versatile platform that offers various use cases for organizations across different departments. Users, …
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9 out of 10
October 31, 2021
Incentivized
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 …
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Popular Features

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  • Existing Skills Mapping/Lanscaping (16)
    6.9
    69%
  • Talent Rediscovery (18)
    6.4
    64%
  • Candidate Modelling (17)
    5.6
    56%
  • Automated Candidate Evaluation/Scoring (17)
    4.4
    44%
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What is LinkedIn Talent Solutions?

LinkedIn Talent Solutions is a talent intelligence platform that provides two talent products, talent acquisition news, recruiting tools and best practices on LinkedIn. Job Posts, for hiring managers at small or medium-sized companies who hire sporadically, allows free posting of individual jobs…

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  • No setup fee

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Product Demos

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Product Details

What is LinkedIn Talent Solutions?

LinkedIn Talent Solutions Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

LinkedIn Talent Solutions is a talent intelligence platform that provides two talent products, talent acquisition news, recruiting tools and best practices on LinkedIn. Job Posts, for hiring managers at small or medium-sized companies who hire sporadically, allows free posting of individual jobs to target relevant job-seekers based on job post criteria. Recruiter & Jobs Slots, for talent acquisition teams at companies who hire multiple roles throughout the year, is a sourcing tool that promotes teams' roles to relevant LinkedIn member targets, and helps recruiters find matches to specific advanced search filters.

Reviewers rate Existing Skills Mapping/Lanscaping highest, with a score of 6.9.

The most common users of LinkedIn Talent Solutions are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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LinkedIn Talent Solutions is a versatile platform that offers various use cases for organizations across different departments. Users, such as recruitment and sales teams, rely on this tool to discover potential candidates and prospects. With the help of the LinkedIn app, communication with candidates becomes effortless. This platform proves to be highly effective for passive candidate sourcing, enabling users to reach out to individuals who may be interested in joining their team or filling clients' positions.

The people operations team, consisting of 5 members, considers LinkedIn Talent Solutions as their go-to and most efficient sourcing tool. It serves as the primary source for reaching out to passive candidates and posting job ads on a pay-per-click basis. Notably, it is also beneficial for HR departments with limited staff capacity, aiding them in finding qualified candidates. Executive search consultants rely heavily on this tool when searching for top-tier talent.

Another significant use case of LinkedIn Talent Solutions lies in IT recruiting, particularly in the IT market. Whether seeking active or passive candidates, recruiters utilize this platform on a daily basis. The key advantage is the ability to identify individuals actively looking for job changes and engage directly with employees from various companies.

In terms of improvements, users suggest enhancing candidate sourcing filters and adding options to specify the optimal time and method of contacting potential candidates. Despite these suggestions, overall feedback highlights the efficiency of LinkedIn Talent Solutions in prospecting both active and passive candidates for present and future positions.

Additionally, this platform saves valuable time for communication and recruiting teams by streamlining job postings and advertising processes. By reducing manual resume screening efforts, it allows teams to focus on more critical tasks. The tool's versatility enables searching for candidates across all departments within an organization, providing a broad range of candidates for review.

Overall, LinkedIn Talent Solutions offers an effective solution for organizations looking to meet their HR hiring needs by tapping into a wider pool of candidates. Its reliability makes it an attractive choice for finding and placing highly skilled technical and professional talent.

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.

Training Improvement: Some users have expressed their dissatisfaction with the training provided for the product, stating that it could be improved, especially considering its complexity. They feel that more comprehensive and effective training resources would help them better utilize and navigate the product.

Expensive Pricing: A common concern among several reviewers is the high pricing of the product. Many users believe that the cost is too steep, making it less accessible for small businesses or individuals on a budget. Lowering the price or offering more affordable subscription options could make it more attractive to potential customers.

Lack of Integrations and Smooth Features for Recruitment: Users have suggested that the platform needs improvement when it comes to recruitment purposes. They mention that there is a lack of integrations with other tools commonly used in recruitment processes, as well as a need for smoother features to streamline hiring workflows. Enhancing these aspects would make the platform more efficient and user-friendly for recruiters.

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Carlos Andrés Patiño | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • Sourcing new talent
  • Promoting job posts/openings
  • Building an audience
  • 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.
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used mostly in our communications and recruiting teams currently for job postings and advertising
  • Quick job postings
  • Easy advertising
  • Sponsoring jobs on your own
  • Extra level users
  • How to search for candidates
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
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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
  • In addition to the technical skills of the candidates, I would like to see the soft skills
  • The ability to search for soft skills
N/A
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • Recommends candidates
  • Communication ability with untapped candidate market
  • Professionalism in recruitment activities
  • Connects to business LinkedIn page
  • Job posting setup
  • Project organization
  • Candidate redirection
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.
Ali Aguilar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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
  • 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
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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
  • Cost, of course
  • Data and Reporting is weak
This tool is great for highly technical/skilled industries and firms. I would not recommend it for industrial or light industrial firms or industries.
October 30, 2021

Mixed Feelings

Jen Chelini | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • Boolean searches
  • Project Set-up
  • Post Jobs
  • I love that you can have the job applicants go straight to your url
  • 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
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!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It helps us source and keep up to date with other recruiter interactions with candidates. It has been used by all of our recruiters. And it helps us in the sourcing process and networking as well as documenting, keeping track of interactions and separating them by project, making it easier to go back to candidates.
  • Provide updated resumes and contact information.
  • Great search engine
  • Easy to use system
  • Keep track of interactions with candidates within our organization
  • Provide a wide variety of contacts, from very junior to very senior
  • Project management, helping us separate jobs and assigning them to coworkers
  • More InMails per subscription, find it too little for the price.
  • Provide last updated date for profiles.
  • Payments malfunctioning, was trying to pay for a particular's subscription and it was impossible for a couple days.
It's great to investigate the job market, to source and recruit people, to network and learn about current worries in the job market and to be informed about events. It is not suited to make friends, to share jokes, it is a very professional social network. Besides this is recommended for medium and large size companies.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used solely by the talent team in order to prospect passive and active candidates for open/future positions. It is helpful to uncover talent that may not be applying directly to our job postings.

The best feature for us is being able to quickly reach candidates via InMail and ones that have their "open to new opportunities" filter on. This allows us to have a targeted approach to the candidate outreach that we are doing.
  • Filters; allow you to have defined searches so you are weeding through less candidates
  • InMails; the fact that it sends them an email is a huge plus because it means that email is much more likely to be read.
  • Huge network; LinkedIn has a large set of candidates
  • More accurate candidate info - I wish they had a way to encourage people to update their profile/open to work settings more regularly.
  • Resume posting - I know LinkedIn wants the profile to be the resume, but I would love to be able to see a candidates resume and reach out directly.
LinkedIn is great for finding passive candidates. I hire many part-time employees so the part-time filter is a huge benefit to quickly weed out candidates that are exclusively looking for full-time work. The other filters can also help to cut down on the amount of work I have to do to weed through a vast number of candidates.

I think many candidates on LinkedIn have outdated profiles so when someone responds to your inmail you think you're talking to someone who has ten years experience in their current company, but then you find out they have actually had six jobs since that time. If LinkedIn would fine a way to motivate people to update their profiles more frequently, I think that would be great.
Nick Gamis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use LinkedIn Talent Solutions on a daily basis for IT recruiting. It's the sourcing tool that we primarily use within our team. We use other resume posting sites and job boards, but we spend 75% or more of our time on LinkedIn Talent Solutions. It's the best for the IT recruiting space because we can contact both active and passive candidates in the IT market. It allows us to keep in touch with candidates in our network and those that we've recruited to our clients as well.
  • Allows us to set search agents that alert us of new candidates meeting our search on a daily basis
  • Has a very detailed search component to it that lets us hone in on the ideal fits during our search
  • Inmail features allow us to contact passive candidates when we don't have other contact methods for them
  • With how common remote work is nowadays, they need to add a search function that allows us to search for candidates by time zone
  • It would be incredibly beneficial if they added a feature that indicated a candidate's work authorization status
LinkedIn Talent Solutions is ideal when looking for top notch candidates that are not actively posting their resumes on job boards. Often, the best candidates in the IT industry are not actively looking so LinkedIn Talent Solutions allows us to find and contact those candidates about the job openings we're recruiting for at a given time.
Marine Fremy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use LinkedIn [Talent Solutions] across the whole organization, as staffing company, mainly for the recruitment department (either to find new candidates or to follow daily with our consultants) but also but the sales department to find new prospect.
It gives us an easy way to communicate with candidates. Having the Linkedin app helps also a lot.
Most candidates are now on linkedin, even if not all profiles are present.
  • Confidentially of the profiles seen when you use Recruiter
  • Many search filters (although it depends on what the candidates have completed)
  • Help center easily accessible, chat not always opened but very helpful to solve an issue quickly
  • Have the full content of the message received on linkedin (basic) when we receive an email notification.
  • Propose related research to those already conducted
  • Filter the notifications by theme because depending on the size of our network we can receive a lot of them
LinkedIn Talent Solutions is the best way to search & find qualified candidates.
For profiles with fewer qualifications, there is often little information filled in by the candidates (only job titles) and it takes a lot more phone screening to find the candidate with all the required skills.

The statistics tab helps you learn more about our use of the platform and what our response rates are.
The saved searches are really convenient and help us to easily expand our network of candidates.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use it primarily to find candidates for job openings I have, but it has its limits.
  • Finding people.
  • Finding specific job titles.
  • Finding specific industries.
  • Boolean filters do not work very well.
  • Limiting your ability to connect with people.
  • Limiting InMail access.
The biggest negative about this product is being limited to the number of people you can reach out to in a week. This is a commercial account that I pay for every month, yet I'm not supposed to reach out to and/or connect with people I don't know. I'm a Recruiter/Talent Acquisition Specialist. I help people find employment as a service. I pay for this service. It's called Recruiter! Yet they want to limit how I use this service that I am paying for? Truly the "Microsoft way". We'll sell you the license & a seat, but we will also tell you how & when you can use the license & where to sit! Too bad LinkedIn sold out to MS.

Using Boolean terms to narrow down search parameters does not work as well as advertised. You end up missing people that should be included in your search. I end up doing broad searches without filters, requiring a lot of patience to sift through the results. In many cases, when using NOT in a Boolean filter to avoid people you aren't looking for, IE - NOT Vice President NOT Sales Manager, etc, people with those titles or key words will still show up in the search, which [feels like] a waste of time.

With Recruiter Lite, the ability to build projects & save people from your searches to specific projects, IE - Press Operator, Production Manager, etc & then even narrowing it down to those titles in a specific region, city, or State is a great tool. You then have the ability to print those lists in a very nice, detailed, portrait or landscape document.
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