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How Scrapping the Traditional College Recruitment Model Helped LinkedIn Find More Diverse Talent

Linkedin Talent Blog

As the head of the LinkedIn Campus Recruiting team, I’ve come to realize that traditional college recruiting just doesn’t work anymore - at least when it comes to finding diverse talent. With that in mind, we decided to completely change how we recruited at the college-level. In fact, it’s a measured goal.

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College Dropout: Why We Need To Rethink College Recruiting.

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These, of course, are the sort of specious selling point that career advice consultants and employment brand experts talk about ad nauseum as critical components of a college recruiting strategy. All Falls Down: The College Recruiting Disconnect. School Spirit: Why College Recruiting Is Broken.

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3 Difficult Diversity Lessons From Yelp, Airbnb, and Deloitte

Linkedin Talent Blog

Over 80% talent acquisition leaders and hiring managers say that diversity will be the most important trend shaping the future of recruiting, according to LinkedIn’s Global Recruiting Trends 2018 (coming out in January). This is no surprise, as studies show that diversity of thought and background improve team’s performance.

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Recruiting Sales Leaders and 9 More of the Biggest Challenges Startups are Facing

Linkedin Talent Blog

It also reveals founders perspective on the root causes and possible solutions for two significant and ongoing conversations in today’s workforce: diversity and inclusion and sexual harassment. Engineering executive, which was the hardest roles to fill in both 2015 and 2016 , came a close second, with 24.4% A further 8.9%

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10 Best Practices for Recruiting Interns (+ideas)

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General job boards — Job boards (like Zip Recruiter, Indeed, and Career Builder) are still some of the best places to find new employees, especially when you’re looking to cast a wider net. For example, in 2016, Goldman Sachs used Spotify to advertise its internship program.

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The Most Popular Companies for College Graduates (and What They’re Doing Right)

Linkedin Talent Blog

And, to find out which companies are doing it right, we analyzed the LinkedIn profile data of millions of students in the US to find out the most popular companies that college graduates went into in 2016. To receive blog posts like this one straight in your inbox, subscribe to the blog newsletter. Methodology.

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This Navy Officer Turned Recruiter Has 8 Key Tips for Hiring Veterans

Linkedin Talent Blog

Philip stresses the importance of choosing a person with an appropriate background when you’re sending someone to a military base to recruit. I’ve seen too many times where companies will send a super-young college recruiter to a military function and they’ll come back empty-handed,” he says. I hate resumes,” Philip says.

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