LinkedIn Corporate Solutions Offers New Tools

LinkedIn Corporation, the worldís largest and most effective professional network, today announced new tools in their Corporate Solutions offering aimed at internal staffing organizations and retained executive search professionals.

LinkedIn Corporate Solutions provides a comprehensive package of tools and services beyond traditional job postings. Recruiting professionals are able to leverage their network and develop relationships with highly qualified passive candidates otherwise unavailable to them. In addition, Corporate Solutions provides powerful search capabilities and communication methods to reach candidates. To enhance this offering, LinkedIn has added:

LinkedIn Project: A browser-based project management tool that enables recruiters to add private comments to profiles during the search process. Recruiters can maximize their productivity with simple categorization and organization of profiles by project or requisition. Upgraded search features allow users to save complex search parameters and view updated results.

Targeted Recruiting Advertising: A highly targeted on-site advertising tool to strategically reach a specific population of candidates, by skill, location, or experience.

ìLinkedIn is one of the most valuable recruiting tools available in targeting high quality, passive job seekers,î says Damon Berkhaug, Director of Global Staffing at Juniper Networks. ìAs proof, do a targeted search in LinkedIn and crosscheck your results against a mainstream job board. You will quickly realize that the quality of the passive job seeker in LinkedIn is far superior.î

With over 10 million members, LinkedIn is the established leader in online professional networking. Currently, the staffing departments of over 350 major companies are using

LinkedIn Corporate Solutions including Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Netflix, TiVo, eBay, Intuit, Amazon.com, T-Mobile, Symantec, as well as top-tier executive recruiting firms. Since LinkedIn is comprised of 100% opt-in user generated content, corporate staffing departments and executive recruiters experience exceptionally high ROI utilizing LinkedInís premium features.

ìWe are extremely pleased with the rapid adoption of our Corporate Solutions by such a wide range of companies,î said Dan Nye, CEO, LinkedIn. ìWith the introduction of LinkedIn Project and targeted advertising, weíre offering a more robust, customized solution designed specifically to meet the needs of recruiters who need reach a volume of high quality candidates.î

LinkedIn will be previewing the new Corporate Solutions features at upcoming industry tradeshows including ERE Expo 2007 Spring in San Diego, CA on April 18-19, 2007 and Kennedy Informationís Recruiting 2007 Conference and Expo in Las Vegas, NV in May 2007.