LinkedIn Announces Updates to Talent Solutions: Benefits for Recruiters

Last Updated: December 16, 2021

LinkedIn recently announced key updates to its Talent Solutions business, further simplifying the recruitment, talent sourcing, and candidate relationship process for users. We discuss some of these updates and how you can leverage them to up your recruitment game.

Automating certain aspects of the recruitment process, gathering data on the recruitment strategies that work best, and using that data to further hire talent must now be part of every recruitment team’s process. Without automation and without leveraging data, advancing to a level of hiring where you can find quality candidates in a tight labor market will only prove challenging.

To aid recruiters do just this, LinkedIn Talent Solutions on Sept. 26, 2019, announced key updates to its products at the 10th Annual LinkedIn Talent ConnectOpens a new window event. These updates extend to enhance the mobile recruitment process, get insights into vital recruitment analytics, and help recruiters find candidates with verifiable skills.

Let’s look at these updates and see how you can leverage them for your recruitment practices.

Learn More: LinkedIn Introduces New Jobs and Hiring Features to Find Better MatchesOpens a new window (May 2019)

What Are LinkedIn’s New Offerings for Recruiters?

“Talent leaders need more intelligent tools and new ways of thinking to find the right talent, improve diversity and close the skills gap,” says Josh JersinOpens a new window , VP of Product, Talent Solutions and Careers, in the company’s product updates.

Over the years, recruitment has evolved from merely hiring a candidate with the necessary qualifications to hiring for key skills, diversity, culture, and much more. The parameters that make a candidate a good fit have increased, and realizing this, LinkedIn Talent Solutions now offers recruiters the tools to meet all these requirements. 

LinkedIn Talent Insights and LinkedIn Recruiter come together for an advanced recruitment experience

LinkedIn Talent Insights, LinkedIn’s analytics tool that draws from data on LinkedIn members – including companies – and job postings, has been integrated into LinkedIn Recruiter & Jobs.

This means you can now leverage these analytics to make results-oriented hiring decisions. And you can be armed with relevant data when you discuss hiring decisions with leadership.

While LinkedIn Recruiter is available on the mobile – and has been revamped in this update to make recruitment accessible on the go – Talent Insights will currently be available only on the desktop, a LinkedIn representative told HR Technologist.

Users subscribing to both Talent Insights and Recruiter will be able to use these two tools together starting this fall.

A new ATS is on the market

Linked has stepped into the applicant tracking system (ATS) vendor ecosystem by announcing its new ATS – LinkedIn Talent Hub. Targeted primarily to small and medium-sized businesses, this product combines Recruiter, Jobs, and Pipeline Builder with the applicant tracking feature.

This shows potential for recruiters because LinkedIn has its own data repository to build an ATS that actually gives recruiters access to valuable, actionable data.

Discussing how the LinkedIn applicant tracking system stands out from other ATS providers, Peter Rigano, Product Lead for Talent Hub, in an exclusive with HR Technologist said, “We are the only ATS that brings in data from LinkedIn’s network of over 645 million members and uses it to create actionable insights throughout the hiring process. It’s the only end-to-end hiring offering that can fold in LinkedIn’s rich data set and let users source, manage, and hire in a single place.”

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Candidate search gets better with Skills Assessment

Earlier this month, LinkedIn introduced the Skill Assessment feature as a way for candidates to demonstrate verifiable skills to recruiters, and for recruiters to find candidates with verifiable skills.

When candidates have passed a skill assessment, they can a) showcase this on their profile, and b) automatically qualify for the next stage in the recruitment process. Recruiters, simultaneously, get access to a larger pool of candidates with specific skills. And this accelerates the hiring process significantly, reducing the time to hire and, as a result, the cost per hire.

The Skill Assessments feature is closely related to LinkedIn Learning, LinkedIn’s own certifications platform, which adds verified certifications on candidate profiles when they complete a course.

Elaborating on the association between LinkedIn Learning and Skill Assessment, Emrecan Dogan, product lead for Skill Assessments, told HR Technologist,

“The Skill Assessments are produced by leading independent industry and subject matter experts, some of which are sourced through LinkedIn Learning’s network. Each assessment has a rigorous content creation and review process with expert and technical reviews to produce a final product that leverages a unique and broad range of domain knowledge and professional expertise. The LinkedIn Learning team, comprised of content strategists and instructional designers, then conducts further evaluation and revision to ensure the highest quality possible, and refreshes the content regularly.”

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Recruitment Needs Streamlining Like Never Before

While you can use standalone solutions for various aspects of recruitment such as ATS, candidate managementOpens a new window software, and analytics dashboards, having a streamlined solution where you can collaborate with your team, view all candidate profiles at once, and most importantly, use that data to refine your strategy further will definitely transform how you recruit.

If you haven’t used unified recruitment technologies yet, now is the time try it to see the results yourself.

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