Palo Alto, CA — April 23, 2007 — LinkedIn Corporation, the world’s largest and most effective professional network, today announced new tools in their Corporate Solutions offering aimed at internal staffing organizations and retained executive search professionals.
LinkedIn Corporate Solutions provides a comprehensive package of tools and services beyond traditional job postings. Recruiting professionals are able to leverage their network and develop relationships with highly qualified passive candidates otherwise unavailable to them. In addition, Corporate Solutions provides powerful search capabilities and communication methods to reach candidates. To enhance this offering, LinkedIn has added:
· LinkedIn Project: A browser-based project management tool that enables recruiters to add private comments to profiles during the search process. Recruiters can maximize their productivity with simple categorization and organization of profiles by project or requisition. Upgraded search features allow users to save complex search parameters and view updated results.
· Targeted Recruiting Advertising: A highly targeted on-site advertising tool to strategically reach a specific population of candidates, by skill, location, or experience.
“LinkedIn is one of the most valuable recruiting tools available in targeting high quality, passive job seekers,” says Damon Berkhaug, Director of Global Staffing at Juniper Networks. “As proof, do a targeted search in LinkedIn and crosscheck your results against a mainstream job board. You will quickly realize that the quality of the passive job seeker in LinkedIn is far superior.”
With over 10 million members, LinkedIn is the established leader in online professional networking. Currently, the staffing departments of over 350 major companies are using
LinkedIn Corporate Solutions including Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Netflix, TiVo, eBay, Intuit, Amazon.com, T-Mobile, Symantec, as well as top-tier executive recruiting firms. Since LinkedIn is comprised of 100% opt-in user generated content, corporate staffing departments and executive recruiters experience exceptionally high ROI utilizing LinkedIn’s premium features.
“We are extremely pleased with the rapid adoption of our Corporate Solutions by such a wide range of companies,” said Dan Nye, CEO, LinkedIn. “With the introduction of LinkedIn Project and targeted advertising, we’re offering a more robust, customized solution designed specifically to meet the needs of recruiters who need reach a volume of high quality candidates.”
LinkedIn will be previewing the new Corporate Solutions features at upcoming industry tradeshows including ERE Expo 2007 Spring in San Diego, CA on April 18-19, 2007 and Kennedy Information’s Recruiting 2007 Conference and Expo in Las Vegas, NV in May 2007.
About LinkedIn Corporate Solutions
LinkedIn Corporate Solutions include custom packages that bundle premium search and candidate sourcing capabilities with job listing subscriptions. Staffing and recruiting professionals can leverage their professional networks to broadcast their job listings and seek referrals through the people they know. In addition to the advanced search capabilities, premium subscribers are able to communicate with any member of the LinkedIn network.
For more information about LinkedIn’s Corporate Solutions please visit: http://www.linkedin.com/corporatesolutions or send an email to: sales[at]linkedin.com.