Linkedin Recruiter

Curious if some of the smaller firms have invested in Linkedin Recruiter. How has it helped? Is it worth the investment?

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Permalink Reply by Chris Hayes on June 13, 2012 at 2:44pm

I've used it for years and now it really is not worth the money. I get 1 response to hundreds of inmails. It's not the magic bullet.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Alfred on June 13, 2012 at 3:26pm

LinkedIN Recruiter is worth it ... But you really need to use it from a Social Community Network perspective and not a Job Board ... Users want to check out the Recruiter who is trying to contact them - If you have no useful content on your profile other than " I have a need for " (One way street thinking) to provide when they hit your profile and you just treat it like a Job Board ... Your Response rate will be low ... My response rate is 7/8 for every 10 Inmails and they are niche and crafted for the target user - I also strongly suggest you get only one account. Try it for 3 months. I have a more extensive answer on this on Quora: http://www.quora.com/LinkedIn/What-is-your-average-LinkedIn-InMail-...

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Permalink Reply by Chuck Klein on June 13, 2012 at 3:51pm

Paul

Are you talking about "Talent Finder" or Linkedin Recruiter - the 2nd being far more costly.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Alfred on June 13, 2012 at 3:59pm

I was referring to LinkedIn Recruiter ....

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Permalink Reply by Anthony Wilkinson on June 13, 2012 at 5:02pm

We bought it in January and made 4 perm placements for $125k. We already better than doubled our investment with 6 months left this year. Great tool definitely worth the money.

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Permalink Reply by Amber on June 13, 2012 at 5:40pm

@Anthony - what specifically did you find the most useful vs. the free accounts? Thanks....

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Permalink Reply by Bill Schultz on June 13, 2012 at 7:31pm

I just got it a few months ago. It makes life a lot easier . Especially the ability to send bulk in mails. If people would like, I can get a rep on here for a q&a.

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Permalink Reply by Irina Shamaeva on June 14, 2012 at 10:37am

I think LinkedIn Recruiter is overpriced as a tool for a small company; also, it provides only limited views of member profiles, which adds inconvenience. As an example, if a member has a resume attached to her profile you will not see this from LI Recruiter. So if you buy it, you will have to keep two windows open, Recruiter and personal, because you will see more info on many profiles from your personal account; pretty inconvenient.

The extra search facets are nice but some are a bit misleading.

InMails are great, but any paid account will give you inmails. (Bulk InMails are a dream but we can survive sending them one by one :)) You can send bulk messages though, if you join a good number of groups where your candidates hang out.

I would recommend getting the Talent Finder account.

Having some paid account is a very good idea, I think; nothing beats an InMail if you can't send a message.

My 2c

Irina

P.S. Oh, and try http://my.pealk.com/ if you haven't.

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Permalink Reply by Chuck Klein on June 14, 2012 at 10:43am

Thanks Irina. Interesting comments. I have Talent Finder - I had heard that LI Recruiter allows you to do searches among the contacts of your connections - that could be useful.

Re: In mails - how many of you get responses from people 6 months later - because they didn't check their LI account and don't receive the Inmails via their regular email. I sense that many people are in this category - making emails to them a waste (even if you get it back). Always best to track down an email address or a phone.

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Permalink Reply by Irina Shamaeva on June 14, 2012 at 10:46am

You can search among contacts of your connections with a free account, actually. Those are called 2nd level connections.

The vast majority of LI members do get InMails in the regular email because it is the default.

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Permalink Reply by Chuck Klein on June 14, 2012 at 10:51am

You can search contacts of your connections but just ine by one.

As example, I am searching the connections of someone now - he must have 40+ pages of contacts. The Recruiter acount would allow an advanced search (I believe) which can be useful.

Hope you are right on inmails - but I often get very late replies asking if the job is stillopen (6 months late).

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Permalink Reply by Anthony Wilkinson on June 14, 2012 at 10:54am

What I liked best is that I can get the profiles full name regardless of my connection level and that I can contact them thru inmails. I also like that I am not limited to 100 profiles like I am with the free account.

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