A Recap of Product Updates in 2017

Product enhancements

With over 10M candidates open to new opportunities on LinkedIn, our product enhancements in 2017 were focused on powering Open Candidate hiring.

Moving beyond the candidate’s identity...

To understanding the person behind the profile

• Experience• Location• Company• Education• Skills

• Affinity, Intent & Relationships• Employee connections• Engaged followers• Past applicants• Open candidates

Powering Open Candidate hiring in 2017

Candidates share their career interests on LinkedIn. 

Easily identify these open candidates from within the Recruiter product to target your outreach.

Get notified when your prospects share their interests and boost response rates with more relevant outreach based on their career interests.

A lookback at 6of our product updates that made recruiters happyCheck out our new product featuresthat help Indian recruiters hirefaster and more efficiently

Focus on interested candidates using Recruiter Spotlights

Improve your response rates 2 – 4xby focusing on the right candidates by using these predefined search filter spotlights in Recruiter.

• Open candidates spotlight• Past applicant spotlight• Engaged candidates spotlight and more.

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Meet professionals where they are - Jobs tab on the mobile app

Your job posts reach 50% more candidates on mobile with the new Jobs tab.

Any job you post on LinkedIn will be featured on a stand-alone tab in our mobile app.

The Jobs tab sparks interest by highlighting a candidate's connections and displaying the experience required and more.

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Boost your talent brand with rich media Career Pages and ads

On average, 20-35% of a company’s new hires come from their employees’ first degree networks.

Target your employees’ first degree connections and company page followers with your Recruitment ads and Sponsored updates

Attract great talent by showcasing your unique company story using our Next-gen LinkedIn Career Pages Learn more about

LinkedIn Career Pages

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Build your Candidate and Client lead pipeline with Career Pages built for Staffing agencies

Have distinctly different candidate and client views, with relevant messaging and calls to action.

A customizable ‘Contact Us’ module to collect email addresses and contact numbers from candidates and clients.

Learn more about Career Pages built for staffing firms 4* Available only for staffing businesses

Build a targeted pipeline of prospects using Pipeline Builder

Target your high-priority talent automatically through Sponsored updates and Recruitment ads.

Excite potential candidates with personalized landing pages with rich media content.

Connect with interested candidates by allowing them to share their email address and phone number.

Learn more about Pipeline Builder 5

Let data drive your decisions

Get the insights you needto boost your InMail response rates up to 30%.

Improved InMail Analytics

See the overall performance of all your Jobs in one place.

Performance Summary Report

Learn more

Access your product utilization data anytime, anywhere on demand.

Refreshed Jobs Analytics Report

Learn more

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Ensuring delight at every step of the candidate journey

4 Linkedin.com updates for Indian professionals looking to put theirbest foot forward

Resume Assistant - LinkedIn + Microsoft Word

Reach applicants the minute they start crafting their resume with Microsoft Word.

Resume Assistant suggests LinkedIn jobs within Microsoft Word and captures the candidates’ attention right at the beginning of their job seeking journey.

Learn more about how candidates can land their next job opportunity using Resume Assistant

* - Resume Assistant is currently being rolled out to all Microsoft Word users in India using a Windows 32 PC 1

Career advice hub – Connecting professionals to mentors

More than 80% of professionals on LinkedIn have stated they either want to have a mentor or be one to others.

Career Advice is a new feature that helps connect members across the LinkedIn network with one another for lightweight mentorship opportunities.

Learn more about LinkedIn Career Advice hub

* - Career Advice is rolling out now to members in India

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Making LinkedIn accessible via LinkedIn Lite

The LinkedIn Lite app, completely made in India, is less than 1 MB in size and can reduce data usage by as much as 80%

LinkedIn Lite Mobile web and Android app ensures that the jobs you post can now be accesses on any mobile device even in areas of low internet connectivity.

Learn more about LinkedIn Lite

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Open to new opportunities – A quiet signal to recruiters

Within just a year of launch of the ‘Open Candidates’

feature, over 10 million LinkedIn membersare currently open to new opportunities.

Learn how Open Candidates feature ensures the right match between interested recruiters and active job seekers.

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Some of our success stories from 2017

Click on each of the blocks to learn more about organizations that are redefining talent acquisition and branding with LinkedIn

Thank you from all of us at LinkedIn.

To see what’s new in 2018, please visit lnkd.in/productupdates