For Our Industry, Not Paying Off
February 05, 2018
For Our Industry, Not Paying Off
Score 4 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with LinkedIn Talent
Linkedin Talent is being used in our organization primarily by our HR/Recruiting team in order to post job and try to identify candidates for our open positions. We often have open positions for highly specialized and skilled positions that require a more hands-on recruiting effort.
Pros
- LinkedIn Talent is great in ease of use, as it is very simple to post jobs, contact individuals, and manage our account.
- LinkedIn Talent provides a variety of reports that they give to you automatically to show how useful it has been; things like amount of applicants, views, demographics, etc.
- LinkedIn Talent provides decent customer service and has a dedicated person you can speak to.
Cons
- At my organization, we had very poor response through LinkedIn talent. Many of the applicants we received were not qualified for our jobs, so some pre-screening would be nice.
- We found it to be cost prohibitive for the results that we got. It was very expensive just to have one recruiter "seat", and then we were limited to the number of job openings. There seemed to be a lot of up-selling involved.
- There is a functionality to limit applicants to those who are local or at least in the same country, but the functionality seemed to keep changing and was hard to use, and you have to make sure to select it when first posting a job or there is no easy way to change it later.
- LinkedIn Talent impacted us negatively because we only hired one person who we had sourced on LinkedIn and for the price it was not worth it for our business.
- Our recruiting manager believes in the power of LinkedIn but has had to go to the mat for it every year because the senior team is not sold on the ROI.
- It has increased the diversity of our applicants, which is a key objective for us.
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