A decent article talking about Linked In. Glad that the human side of recruiting was mentioned (Aisha Guler’s comments were quite good – she’s a Hager Executive Search placement BTW). It sometimes amazes me when companies feel they can simply automate everything. Would you fire the carpenter building your house because you bought the most advanced hammer on the market?
Linked In is no doubt useful but it is a tool. As we’ve mentioned before it takes a great deal more work to find top tier talent than simply putting up a job posting. Why would someone think that putting up a job posting on Linked In would work appreciably better than putting one up on Monster? Good passive candidates aren’t going to read a job posting in any location. And not everyone is on Linked In. If you want good talent, you have to go out and get it.
What Linked In provides is access to online information. What search consultants do with that information is what separates the good consultants from the best consultants.