LinkedIn Recruiter Adds Talent Pipeline Tool
LinkedIn, the professional networking site with over 120 million members, has recently announced new functionality for LinkedIn Recruiter. Called LinkedIn Talent Pipeline, it is a tool that helps recruiters more easily and efficiently manage their talent leads. Set for release in 2012, the solution was unveiled during the LinkedIn Talent Connect customer event this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Talent Pipeline tool will be included with LinkedIn Recruiter, which is LinkedIn’s main recruiting software.
Talent Pipeline provides corporate recruiters with a centralized database for all their talent leads. In the past, recruiters were forced to manually keep track of many divergent talent sources (job boards, career sites, social media sites , etc.), often juggling these resources ineffectually. Talent Pipeline changes all that by allowing recruiters to import resumes and candidate profiles into a single location, regardless of the source.
“Recruiters are actively looking for more talent from more sources and managing all their talent leads across multiple tools,” said Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn CEO. “With LinkedIn Talent Pipeline, we’re extending our Recruiter platform and continuing our focus to connect talent with opportunity on a massive scale by providing a single place to manage and update these leads, wherever they are found.”
More than an Applicant Tracking System, LinkedIn’s Talent Pipeline allows a recruiter to keep track of passive candidates that would have otherwise been left undiscovered without the tool – but since leads are connected to their LinkedIn profiles, users always have the most up-to-date information on both active and passive job seekers. Currently, LinkedIn is working with several large organizations to put the finishing touches on Talent Pipeline, including PepsiCo, Pfizer, Red Hat, First Citizens Bank, and Netflix.
L.J. Brock, Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition & Infrastructure at Red Hat, noted: “Our talent acquisition strategy is based on building refined talent pools for the strategic roles essential to our business. Maintaining meaningful relationships with these candidates in a personalized but scalable manner is a priority for us. LinkedIn Talent Pipeline will allow us to do that more effectively than anything that exists today.”
With the newly integrated service, the LinkedIn Recruiter platform should enjoy further use and adoption. With integrated sourcing and talent pooling technology, LinkedIn Recruiter should be perceived by companies as a cost efficient solution.