{"id":1587,"date":"2015-10-20T15:48:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T13:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jobboardfinder.com\/news\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2018-10-12T11:58:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T09:58:44","slug":"linkedin-innovates-updates-and-revamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jobboardfinder.com\/news\/linkedin-innovates-updates-and-revamps\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn innovates, updates and revamps"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know the saying: \u2018the friend of my friend is my friend\u2019. Well, if you consider that your employee is your friend \u2013 and they should, because after all you trust them enough to give them the opportunity to work with you \u2013 it means that your employee\u2019s circle may also represent potential friends\/hires. This may sound a bit far-fetched, except it\u2019s not: according to LinkedIn\u2019s official blog<\/a>, 80% of recruiters say the best channel to recruit quality candidates is employee referrals.<\/p>\n

Employee referrals often represent both a time and money-saving option for recruiters who tend to trust these types of candidates more while such applicants end up staying\u00a0longer within the employer companies.\u00a0Yet only 18% of recruiters are satisfied with the level of employee engagement their referral program receives. Traditional referral programs rely exclusively on employees, which often fails to be effective. Employees are likely \u2013 and rightly so \u2013 to get discouraged by a time-consuming endeavor and obscure software.<\/p>\n

Based on these observations, LinkedIn introduced last week their brand new referral product. With LinkedIn Referrals, your employees\u2019 first-degree connections who match your open jobs are automatically identified on LinkedIn. While employees can go to the company\u2019s dedicated LinkedIn Referrals website to see their connections who are matches, they will also receive a summary of their matches every other week on their work email address. Then they will be able to send their connections open jobs they\u2019re a match for. Recruiters only get referrals who are applying for the open jobs which ensures that the candidates are both interested and recommended. Currently in an initial launch phase, LinkedIn Referrals is available to companies on supported Applicant Tracking Systems.<\/p>\n

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But wait, this is not the only news LinkedIn has been releasing lately. Along with the launch of Referrals, Recruiter has been updated, a new LinkedIn Groups experience and iOS app has been released and a brand new mobile flagship app called Voyager has been unveiled \u2013 yes, we\u2019re dizzy too.<\/p>\n