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LinkedIn Talent Hub

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What is LinkedIn Talent Hub?

LinkedIn Talent is a recruiting solution. It offers core ATS capabilities, as well as proactive recruitment outreach tailored to LinkedIn’s site. LinkedIn Talent also enables competitive insights and recruitment marketing.

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LinkedIn Talent is a versatile platform that caters to a wide range of recruiting needs. Users, including the recruiting department, …
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Great product

10 out of 10
April 21, 2021
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It is a great product. These days almost all professionals have a LinkedIn account. It is very easy to access the talent here. You get …
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Just okay

6 out of 10
April 21, 2021
Incentivized
We used LinkedIn Talent Hub to look for candidates for new job postings. We like posting jobs to LinkedIn for our Support positions …
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What is LinkedIn Talent Hub?

LinkedIn Talent is a recruiting solution. It offers core ATS capabilities, as well as proactive recruitment outreach tailored to LinkedIn’s site. LinkedIn Talent also enables competitive insights and recruitment marketing.

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Product Details

What is LinkedIn Talent Hub?

LinkedIn Talent Hub is an ATS platform that combines LinkedIn Recruiter and Jobs. It includes ATS capabilities tailored to recruiting on the LinkedIn site. In addition to core recruiting features like candidate search and job posting, LinkedIn Talent offers collaboration support and integration with the rest of your HR management solutions. The product also enables proactive recruiting and recruitment insights, including visibility into the LinkedIn talent pool and reporting on recruiting ROI.

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Frequently Asked Questions

LinkedIn Talent is a recruiting solution. It offers core ATS capabilities, as well as proactive recruitment outreach tailored to LinkedIn’s site. LinkedIn Talent also enables competitive insights and recruitment marketing.

Reviewers rate Publish to Social Media and Candidate Search and Applicant Tracking highest, with a score of 8.

The most common users of LinkedIn Talent Hub are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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LinkedIn Talent is a versatile platform that caters to a wide range of recruiting needs. Users, including the recruiting department, business and technical teams, and individual hiring managers, utilize LinkedIn Talent to find top talent in specific areas of expertise. The platform allows them to post open positions, source candidates, and send messages through the LinkedIn Inmail feature. With job postings on LinkedIn, they are able to attract both active and passive candidates who may not come across job postings on other platforms. The platform's easy-to-use search filters enable users to find candidates based on criteria such as current company, education, job tenure, and openness to new opportunities.

LinkedIn Talent is particularly useful for finding candidates for direct-hire roles and short-term contracts lasting 12-18 months. It helps identify active and passive candidates on LinkedIn, expanding the pool beyond traditional job boards. The response rate from candidates sourced through LinkedIn Talent is around 20%. The tool streamlines the hiring process by integrating well into existing operations and allowing users to fill excess time with sourcing activities. Additionally, it offers features such as profile reviews without the need for a resume.

The software is widely used by HR departments, talent teams, and CXOs to fulfill their hiring needs across all levels of positions. It helps with fast-paced hiring, improves connectivity with professionals seeking new opportunities, and provides a global reach for recruiting needs. LinkedIn Talent Hub is also utilized by non-profit organizations to gain visibility without relying on expensive marketing agencies. Despite some limitations in terms of customization options and basic ATS features, users appreciate the ease of reviewing qualifications and communicating with applicants when posting jobs on LinkedIn. Overall, LinkedIn Talent Hub has become an essential tool in the current labor market for sourcing top talent and filling hard-to-find positions.

Effective Search Functionality: Many users have found the search functionality of LinkedIn Talent to be highly effective, allowing them to quickly find qualified candidates. Numerous reviewers have praised the platform for its ability to accurately filter and identify the best talent for specific positions.

24-Hour Support: Users appreciate the 24-hour support provided by LinkedIn Talent, considering it advantageous for a tool like this. It has been mentioned by several reviewers that having access to round-the-clock support is incredibly helpful in addressing any issues or concerns promptly.

Customized Templates: The customized templates provided by LinkedIn Talent have been widely appreciated by users. These templates help recruiters reach out to candidates quickly via LinkedIn InMail, saving time and effort. Several reviewers have specifically mentioned how these templates have improved their efficiency in sourcing and engaging with potential hires.

Pricing: Users have consistently found the pricing of LinkedIn Talent to be expensive, especially for small businesses. Many reviewers have expressed that it is cost-prohibitive and not justified by the results they obtain.

User Interface: Some users have mentioned that the user interface of LinkedIn Talent can be confusing and not well-explained, making it difficult to navigate and understand the features. This has led to frustration among users who struggle with finding their way around the platform.

Job Postings Layout: The layout of job postings on LinkedIn Talent has received criticism from users. Some important information may not appear immediately to users, leading to a less-than-optimal experience when reviewing job listings.

Users have made several recommendations for utilizing LinkedIn to its full potential. First, they suggest thoroughly filling out your profile and using LinkedIn to build your network. By taking the time to fill out detailed profiles, users have found great career opportunities and learning experiences. They also emphasize the importance of building a strong network on the platform, connecting with professionals from various industries.

Secondly, users recommend LinkedIn as a great option for finding a good source pool of talent. They appreciate the large number of updated professional profiles available on the platform, making it easier to search for potential candidates who fit their requirements.

Lastly, users suggest using LinkedIn not only for job search but also as a platform to learn about new job requirements and publish their own requirements. They find value in connecting with people in the same technology field both inside and outside their organization, allowing them to broaden their knowledge and stay connected with industry trends.

While users generally find LinkedIn beneficial, some have mentioned that it may not be the best option for those on a tight budget. However, they encourage others to utilize LinkedIn as much as possible, stating that they will not regret it. Additionally, users recommend checking out the recommended matches section on LinkedIn as they believe it contains good people.

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Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
LinkedIn Talent Hub is used across the whole organization for hiring resources. The business problem that it addresses is mainly verifying and validating the authenticity of candidates. Of all the people applying for the job, LinkedIn had always been my way of verifying the candidate is genuine. Now with job posting on LinkedIn, it serves as a single platform to search, verify, and recruit the resources for my team.
  • Single platform for job posting, verification and recruitment
  • Easy to manage applicants
  • Easy scheduling of interviews
  • Still there are a lot of people who aren't actively looking on LinkedIn; employers may miss out on those candidates
  • Single-click application for a job with an attachment of the resume
Scenarios where LinkedIn Talent Hub is well suited:
  • Organizations of varied size--small, medium, and large.
  • When the technical manager or the interviewer can also look along with the hiring manager.
Cassidy Ebert | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My organization uses LinkedIn Talent Hub to find contract employees. We do a lot of hiring and contracts usually only last 12-18 months, so we are constantly looking for new talent. The talent team looks for people with similar skill sets to the ones we need, or people who have experience within our industry, to fill various rolls throughout our many departments.
  • Finding talent.
  • Easy to use.
  • Great filters.
  • Slightly pricey.
  • Web version would be nice.
LinkedIn Talent Hub is great for companies that are constantly growing and bringing in new talent. If you do a lot of hiring, this is a great place to start. I would not recommend to smaller companies or those with low budgets, because it is a paid feature and only really pays off if you hire often.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using [LinkedIn Talent Hub] in the HR department to recruit for new hires
  • Qualified talent pool
  • Postings are easy to do
  • User friendly
  • Postings are expensive
[LinkedIn Talent Hub provides a qualified] talent pool and the portal is easy to use. The cost is the main factor behind why we don't post as often.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company was always hiring and the roles were so industry-specific that it was tough to be able to get the right people to apply. When we started using LinkedIn, we were able to use keywords for [the] skills and experience we were looking for to attract more people to the open position.
  • Analytics
  • Marketing
  • Screening
  • Pricing
  • Dashbords
  • Bulk uploads
LinkedIn Talent Hub is best suited for smaller companies looking for specific skill sets and willing to hire from out of state and recent graduates. It is great for marketing and getting your company brand out there especially if you are a business-to-business seller and do not have a loyal customer base who might want to apply.
April 21, 2021

Great product

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is a great product. These days almost all professionals have a LinkedIn account. It is very easy to access the talent here. You get information about almost everything from past experiences, current location, skillset, contact information. You can also send a connection request. Use Linkedin to send messages . Even applicants can access all information about the company and contact people working there to get an insight.
  • Connect with Talent with ease
  • Huge pool of candidates
  • Get detailed information about candidates
  • Some of the features are available only after purchase
  • People come to know you visited their profile
  • Can get tricky sometimes to get in touch with candidates
It lets you post a certificate of any course that a candidate might have done. Shows the recommendation that a candidate has. Connections that the candidate has. Easy to look for people. I feel it is very suited to find a candidate. I don't think there is anything that LinkedIn Talent Hub will be less suited.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
LinkedIn Talent hub simplifies the hiring process and allows us to review all applications in one place as well as manage the hiring pipeline and who we choose moving forward in the process. It helps us to be able to spend more time reviewing the appropriate people for our team and less sifting through resumes or forgetting where we are at in the process.
  • Pipeline management.
  • Gets more applicants.
  • Easy UI.
  • No ability to conduct interviews on.
  • Hiring abilities.
It has worked really well for the entire hiring process and pipeline. It helps us stay organized and keep track of who is where within each process which can be difficult to manage.
Brandon Guthrie | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a healthcare facility LinkedIn Talent Hub helps locate new talent that is not local to help with diversity in our organization. As we are a non-profit and relatively small, LinkedIn Talent Hub helped put us on the map. Getting the word out on who and where we are without relying on expensive marketing agencies has always been a challenge.
  • Easy to use
  • Cost effective
  • Direct ability to see talent
  • Allow for more chat features
  • Willing to Work search
I have been able to locate and effectively communicate with talent using LinkedIn Talent Hub.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
While I feel like LinkedIn Talent Hub has plenty of potential, I feel like the interface could be a little more user friendly. I have run into issues where I click on links and they take me to a page that is already expired. This does help address come of our needs as a company when it comes to talent acquisition, but find that we need to also use other programs in conjunction with this.
  • Well advertised
  • Consumer friendly
  • Price Friendly
  • Quality of jobs
  • Accuracy of jobs
I really feel like [LinkedIn Talent Hub] has great potential to be used by many many companies. I think if it is made a little more user friendly with a little more development on the back end to remove some bugs, this could be a potential game changer. I have enjoyed working and getting to know this.
James Reich | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used mainly by the recruiting team here at HireVergence. We use it to identify active and passive candidates on LinkedIn that may not be on the job boards. It is solving the problem of finding candidates that may not traditionally post their resumes. It is a wonderful tool to find candidates for direct-hire roles that might be passively looking for work.
  • It is excellent at finding and interacting with passive candidates.
  • Excellent at finding talent locally or across the globe.
  • Great finding hard-to-find skills out in the marketplace.
  • Great at searching for folks on LinkedIn (versus the normal, unpaid search options).
  • The search tools are tricky. I cannot search by title (seniority), just years of experience which can be challenging.
  • You cannot search by a specific keyword unless it is already an accepted keyword in LinkedIn's repository.
  • Searching for people locally can be a challenge, as just picking the state doesn't necessarily give you the whole state. Example, when I search Massachusetts it seems to not include individuals living in Boston. I don't know why this issue is still present.
It is excellent for finding any candidates out there in the marketplace, anywhere on earth. Their database of individuals is astoundingly large, millions upon millions. When searching for sales contacts it is also valuable, although it is centered around candidates more. It is also good to investigate companies or who you share connections with.
Liz Duffié | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used by the recruiting department to proactively source candidates.
  • Easy user experience
  • Widest variety of talent
  • Provides more detailed information outside of just a regular linkedin profile for candidates
  • A place to keep detailed notes
  • A place to create reminders for yourself on candidates
Very likely to recommend at any company that is hiring
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used in Talent Acquisition primarily (nearly exclusively). Sometimes (rarely) hiring managers will use it. It is used to source/recruit talent. It is used for networking. It is used for employment branding. I/we view LinkedIn as the #1 source of sourcing/recruiting talent. I/we also view it as a strong employer branding resource as well.
  • Source of talent - LinkedIn has become the #1 place to engage talent.
  • Targeting / advertising / sponsoring employment ads are very effective. They are costly, but effective.
  • Connecting with talent via InMails and ability to send InMails to a pretty targeted audience with ease is great. This allows you to reach out/connect fast with people that "fit" what you are looking for. Other sites for recruiting, etc. are hit and miss. The quality of results is the strongest on LinkedIn and has been for many, many years.
  • The new "job sponsorship" takes a lot more effort. Results were fine with the old way of sponsoring jobs.
  • The fact that you cannot add a credit card to the job advertising (job sponsoring) is frustrating. Because of this I have moved my job sponsoring to Indeed. It is difficult for many TA depts to be able to pay $15K up front for job ad sponsoring in a lump sum. If I could do it on a pay as you go it would help dramatically and I would bring my spend back.
  • It seems to me "Account Rep" is always new... It did not used to be this way. In the past maybe 2 years huge amounts of turnover started and the service level has gone downhill, or I have to work with a rep who is not helpful and not knowledgeable.
  • The tools they have built to try and "make it" ATS like or candidate CRM like are not good...I use it as a source of prospecting and use my own tools to manage. The candidate assessments are not effective. I have selected people to answer questions and LinkedIn says it will provide me the answers, but I never get them.
In my opinion and based on my experience, if you are looking to hire professional "white collar" skill sets and establish yourself in that arena you must use LinkedIn. It is best to be very active and connect and reach out via InMails and emails to your skills sets and the groups they are in.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
LinkedIn Talent is being used mainly by the HR and CXOs. It is one of the main go to tools for all of our hiring needs across both senior, mid and junior roles. It allows us to put filters and find out quality talent across all possible verticals for our organization.
  • Shortlisting talent across verticals
  • Putting filters, writing notes, managing the hiring process
  • 24 hours support for a tool like this is an add on
  • Payment plans - they should have multiple tiers for large vs small organization
  • Limited integration possiblities with other tools
  • Rest all is great, no other cons
It is well suited for all types of mid to large organisations to manage their hiring. There is no better database of candidates than this, this it helps to manage the entire hiring process very well. Leveraging the entire LinkedIn ecosystem to research, connect, make notes and hire the right person. It might not be very well suited for a small company due to added costs.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We're using Talent Hub across the entire organization as our ATS tool. Let's not confuse LinkedIn Talent Hub with LinkedIn Recruiter. LinkedIn Recruiter is amazing and well worth the cost of the license seats. I think we all agree LinkedIn has their networking, talent branding, and job advertisements locked in, and I recommend LinkedIn Recruiter for anyone who needs to source candidates. The LinkedIn Talent Hub on the other hand is trying to be an ATS, and in my opinion, is failing miserably. It lacks basic ATS features like customization of application questions, accurate disposition status, several reporting features are not supported and I'm not able to gather some info I would want if I needed to look at a req history in detail. It lacks so many basic ATS features and we have so many workarounds, it's too exhaustive to list. They have very limited options around posting jobs, un-posting jobs, and open vs closed vs on hold vs canceled. In fact, if a job is "opened" by their standards, it must be posted for 30 days. If it expires on its own, you're OK, otherwise, if you wanted to pull a posting down prior to 30 days, you need to CLOSE the job and will not be able to reopen it. The systems don't differentiate between a pipeline project or an "evergreen" and an actual approved, requisition; everything is called a "Project" and the reporting starts when that "project" was created, and not when the actual "Job / Req" was approved/posted /opened, etc. The automatic approvals in the system are very minimal as well and don't work for our organization. I could go on and on—overall, they are not even close to being a successful ATS with proper features. When they get there, it will be a goldmine because of the excellent networking features in Recruiter, but I plan on finding another ATS to use with our Recruiter seats. Talent Hub is a big time and money waste in my experience.
  • Ability to network and search for passive candidates with an ability to save them to the job.
  • Easy to share, tag, and review potential candidates and applicants with other team members.
  • Reporting. Major lacking here. If a job is closed then reopened (which that feature was recently removed), all reporting is wiped clean and picked back up with the "reopen" date. So it doesn't give a full history of the job activity.
  • Lacks adequate approvals in the system.
  • If you're a company with a risk of audits, I would not recommend Talent Hub. They lack compliance: the system allows us to "hire" someone who never applied to the job. Req history could be incomplete with the way reporting functions are set up. The system puts passive "sourced" candidates and applicants in the same bucket for pipeline workflows. Disposition status is inadequate and greatly lacking, etc.
  • Dashboard is not customizable.
  • We do not have our own unique req IDs. The system generates project IDs but these numbers are shared with all their clients, they're not unique to Ora so they are somewhat random and not in order.
  • They do not differentiate between a networking project and an approved requisition.
  • There's more, too many to list.
I think Talent Hub could be well suited for companies that do not have any structure around their hiring and no internal recruiters to support them. The system will allow the manager to post their job and leave it alone but if you're a company with structure and internal teams to support recruiting efforts, there are better ATS platforms out there.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use LinkedIn Talent Hub for job posting and passive sourcing. Passive sourcing is the biggest area I use it for currently. It helps us find passive talent. Considering the labor market, it's very important to have a tool like LinkedIn Talent Hub and there are a lot of benefits to it.
  • Job posting.
  • Passive sourcing.
  • Boolean search strings.
LinkedIn Talent Hub is very helpful when it comes to passive sourcing. You are able to enter in qualifications easily (without having to do Boolean search on your own) and Talent Hub spits out candidates who match your criteria. This tool is super helpful especially when recruiting for hard to fill positions.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use LinkedIn Talent in one of the organizations that I volunteer for. It is used to find new candidates for open positions. It has an edge over other similar tools, as it's popular, and because most active candidates who are looking for jobs, will usually have LinkedIn profile and network.
  • Easy.
  • Popular.
  • Explain features in a better way.
  • Marketing.
LinkedIn Talent is well suited when you're in a time crunch, and you would like to consider and filter more candidates. Also there is a demo that we can see before using it. And we can use our LinkedIn profile to auto-fill the information. The LinkedIn affiliation or connection comes in handy for this talent search tool.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
LinkedIn is currently being used by our HR department at my organization. It has been a great benefit to use for advertising, posting jobs and managing the recruiter seat. It has gives us the opportunity to better connect with those who are looking for new opportunities and have an established career.
  • The recruiter seat is something I think they do well, it is nice to use it to connect with potential new employees.
  • Their job board seems to work well for them, although it is not the best it does increase interest.
  • The advertising for LinkedIn is not efficient for the prices they charge.
  • Their price module is not realistic for small businesses.
LinkedIn Talent Hub is something I would recommend for a larger company, but not a smaller one. The prices are high and don't provide the best value compared to Indeed or other sites. I would recommend this for a large company which has a bigger budget and more employees in their HR department. It is not worth paying to advertise on LinkedIn but it is nice to have the recruiter seat to interact with potential new employees.
October 21, 2019

LinkedIn Talent Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
LinkedIn is the best professional network platform which allows us to reach the right talent and to connect with professionals across industries. The pool available for passive resources is great. This definitely helps to connect with industry talents and to fill positions that are hard to find in active job portals.
  • Building a professional network
  • Branding
  • Searching for the right candidates for the positions
  • Sometimes if the search is on we [can't] map them to a different project that was created
  • Work authorization should be included
Best platform to connect with professionals if you are in executive level hiring. You can search for excellent people/talents across the globe. Helps in networking, branding and understanding the current market trends. A must-have platform if you are in recruitment. This definitely helped us with closing many roles from our clients.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

LinkedIn is excellent to select the new personnel of the company in a faster and more efficient way, I like that it offers you detailed information about the future employee of the company, in which it facilitates your resume as previous work, thus obtaining detailed information in little time and in an easy way.

  • Quickly understand the background of applicants.
  • Easily and quickly find new, prospective employees.
  • Manage a new employee recruitment pipeline.
  • Integration w/ company CRM system.
  • Automated follow-ups and reminders.
  • Ability to schedule meetings with G-suite and Outlook calendars.
LinkedIn Talent is a great platform for HR professionals and recruiters. It leverages the best social network for employees and gives recruiters/HR professionals access to the largest network of professionals in the world. LinkedIn provides a premium extension where you have the right to view statistics about candidates, send messages directly to any person, find out who has seen your profile, highlight your application for vacancies and attend video courses developed by specialists.
October 15, 2019

We love LinkedIn Talent

Matthew Bernstein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
LinkedIn Talent is being used by my organization to source candidates to ultimately fill open roles. It is used by the human resources department, specifically the talent management division, as they are the ones on the front lines constantly communicating with prospective employees. It is tremendously helpful in terms of finding new candidates.
  • Finding strong candidates
  • Matching candidates to open roles
  • Ranking candidates in order of importance
  • The dashboard takes a while to get used to
  • Posting jobs to other sites is tough
  • Price can be prohibitive to small businesses
If your company has a high demand for talent, or conversely, if you have a need to source talent due to hard deadlines, I would recommend the use of Linkedin Talent. This is the premier recruitment tool there is in the market, and the resource keeps on growing every year. The service and support are outstanding.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
LinkedIn Talent has played an important role in my organisation's recruiting success. It's an excellent platform to post the requirements/ job descriptions. You manage to get attract even passive candidates, can visit unlimited profiles, get enough InMails options. And best part is you get genuine and honest candidates. You get applications with complete contact details which is also very useful thing since on other platforms, you can't get complete contact details.
  • Most importantly you get genuine talent pool via LinkedIn. Usually candidates don't put fake experiences over LinkedIn so you get only genuine candidates.
  • You can find candidates for all the skill sets over LinkedIn so wide variety, diversity you can get.
  • I really like the feature they have added "candidates who will most likely to respond". And yes those are active job seekers, they quickly respond to Inmails and it speeds up the hiring process.
  • Response time is slow. People don't check InMails so actively.
  • Lots of candidates are not active on social media so they don't have LinkedIn Account. That means you can't rely on LinkedIn completely.
  • It can be little expensive for small companies.
Best for technical, c- level requirement hiring. If you have any niche skill requirement then LinkedIn is the best job board without a doubt. You know the candidate's credibility as they can have professional recommendation over their profiles from managers, clients and co workers. LinkedIn InMails response time is very slow especially if you're hiring for engineering requirements.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As an organization, we used LinkedIn Talent to search, find, and connect with potential employees for our clients. It helped us to quickly search for qualified candidates with certain criteria and experience. With their easy to use search filters, we could narrow down the best prospects to reach out to.
  • LinkedIn Talent provides customized templates that can be used to quickly reach out to candidates via LinkedIn InMail.
  • The pipeline feature allows recruiters and/or human resource directors to build, track, and manage candidates. It lets you organize candidates into folders and create lists with reminders.
  • You can share your activities, projects, searches, candidate profiles, and applicant notes with other people throughout the company.
  • A feature that automates emails via InMail to follow up with applicants or candidates who haven't responded would be a cool update. It's a way to continue nurturing qualified candidates and build relationships.
LinkedIn Talent is well suited for any company that is looking to hire new talent either currently or in the future. This tool is a great resource for finding qualified candidates that fit whatever criteria a position requires. You are able to search, connect with, and manage applicant profiles and maintain a talent pipeline. I've found that candidates on LinkedIn Talent are often more highly-qualified than those on other recruiting platforms such as Monster, Indeed, and CareerBuilder.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Linkedin talent to look for candidates when we can't find one using our website or Glassdoor. This platform is exclusively being used by our recruiting and email team. Usually, we have enough applicants for each position. But when we don't, we use Linkedin Talent for our recruiting efforts.
  • LinkedIn Talent excels at being able to segment personas based on criteria you are looking for.
  • It makes it easy to advertise to specific groups.
  • Networking with potential candidates is very easy.
  • We get a lot of spam messages from fake accounts.
  • I wish you could customize the dashboard a little more.
  • A lot of people haven't updated their LinkedIn profiles which can muddy the data when you are segmenting.
LinkedIn works great when you are trying to do some outreach for a position. It's very easy to build personas and segments for your recruiting efforts. One of the best features is that you can use Inmail to reach out to the candidates. LinkedIn is not recommended if you are already receiving a lot of applications.
Avni Shah | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
LinkedIn Talent is primarily used in our Recruiting department. In my current company, I and other members of my recruiting team use this platform. The business problems Linkedin Talent helps solve is finding quality candidates. We post our open positions on LinkedIn and use it for sourcing candidates. The Linkedin Inmail feature is great in helping send messages to prospective candidates. The job postings we have on Linkedin also helps us attract active candidates into our open positions. I love that I can easily search for candidates with the touch of a few filters. The filters one can use range from current company, education, how long a candidate has been at their current job, and if they are currently open to new opportunities!
  • Search Feature. A recruiter can easily use the platform to find their ideal candidate. There is a variety of filters to help you. If you are not strong in Boolean searches, the filters really come in handy! I’ve trained 2 members of my team with this platform and they love how easy it is to use!
  • Project folders. This feature allows a recruiter to put prospective candidates in a folder. You can select multiple candidates and put them in a folder. You can then send this folder over to a hiring manager to get their review. I love this feature since it helps me be organized.
  • Job Slots. With our Linkedin Talent account, we also included the job slot feature where in which we can post a select number of our open positions. Many of our new hires have actually come through the linked job postings!
  • Unlimited Inmails. I love the fact that I can easily reach out to candidates. With the connectifier plugin, recruiters are now able to reach out to the prospective candidate through their personal email address!
  • InMails. The con of sending InMails is that many times you don’t get a response back. Linkedin should have a feature where a recruiter can know if their InMails was even viewed. Better mechanisms need to be put in my place for the InMails feature.
  • Cost. LinkedIn recruiter is not cheap. I wish the cost could be a bit lower especially if there are multiple users.
  • Connectifier is not helpful for global candidates. Many of the candidates that I reach out to are international. Unfortunately, Connectifier isn’t helpful in obtaining email addresses for these international candidates.
LinkedIn Talent is well suited for those who are looking to find candidates for their technical position and for sourcing in general. Every organization should use this platform as it makes a difference in recruiting efforts. Everyone has a Linkedin profile and it’s one of the best professional sites to reach out to candidates. I recommend that any organization use this.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
LinkedIn Talent is used by our recruiters in the HR department to source qualified candidates for our roles. We get some good applicants but sometimes cannot find the right type of candidate so direct outreach to candidates is necessary to identify and recruit the right candidate for the role.
  • Have a large pool of candidates available
  • Filter features are great for honing in on the right type of candidate
  • There is a feature that indicates if a candidate is interested in moving
  • The project feature makes it easy to make lists of candidates
  • Certain types of candidates get inundated with inmails so do not respond much.
  • There aren't diversity filters available
  • During the review candidate feature for hiring managers, there is no way of going back to the candidate after you've rated them.
LinkedIn is a great place to actively search for candidates to fill your role if you cannot find the right candidates in your pool of applicants/referrals. Often times these are cold reach outs and if candidates receive a lot of these inmails, they become less responsive. The inmails requires candidates to log into LinkedIn to view their messages. The better approach would be if LinkedIn provided direct contact information to the individuals (email address).

This is also a great tool to create lists of candidates you would like to reach out to in the future. You can share projects easily with hiring mangers or other recruiters. If you are working with colleagues, you can see all the activity on any particular candidate across the organization (various recruiters viewing the profile, etc).
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our TA team uses Linkedin Talent with 3 licenses 4 job slots and a career page.
  • Source for qualified candidates - the details.
  • Suggest qualified candidates.
  • Post easily from our ATS to the job slots.
  • Incomplete profiles of candidates.
  • Cost is fairly high per recruiter seat.
  • Calendar can only be shared on first inmail but not subsequent messages in a conversation.
Suitable for Sourcing for sales candidates in a specific area with specific background. Not suitable for filling low-level, high-volume positions.
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