In professional sports, Brendan Browne would be called a “player-coach.” As the Global Head of Talent Acquisition at LinkedIn, he doesn’t just lead his team — Brendan still has a hand in the recruiting game. And with years of experience under his belt, he has some clear ideas about best practices for sourcing. “Every year, I do a couple of exec searches,”...
Sourcing Articles
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- Talent on Tap,
- Sourcing
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For the first 25 of the past 40 years, I was a full-time recruiter. Of the 500+ placements I made during that time (mostly mid- and senior management positions), only about a dozen were people who responded to a job posting. The others were referred or networked and most of them were passive candidates. Just as importantly, I rarely needed to present more than 3...
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- Sourcing,
- Passive Candidate Recruiting
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Instagram posts tagged with one or more hashtags have 12.6% more engagement than posts without any. On Twitter, tweets that include hashtags are 33% more likely to get retweeted. And on LinkedIn, impressions on posts with hashtags are 29.59% higher. Such is the power of the hashtag — and if you’re not using them strategically in your hiring process, you could be...
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- Sourcing,
- Hiring Generation Z,
- Employer Brand
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As a recruiter, you can probably relate to this meme: Safe to say you have a lot going on. And, it can be hard to find time for...
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Sourcing and recruiting may seem like two separate activities, but they’re not. If you’re not good at sourcing, you can’t be good at...
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Any basic LinkedIn search will get you a list of candidates, but how can you be sure your search is returning all of the best...
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- Sourcing