What’s a value proposition for businessmen like Aders is a financial boon for LinkedIn. ( MORE: Intel’s Earnings Warning is an Ominous Sign for Tech Sector) ![]() His company reduced its expenses per potential hire from $7,000 to less than $1,000 by eliminating expensive recruiter fees. ![]() Aaron Aders, the CEO of search engine optimization consulting company Slingshot SEO, said all the recent hires at his 100-person organization have been found through LinkedIn. “We basically haven’t even used our recruiter for the last year,” he said. The influence of LinkedIn recruiting has reached companies both big and small. “Hiring Solutions is now our largest and fastest growing business line, which I think kind of illustrates the market demand for what we can offer companies,” George said. More than 10,000 companies worldwide use some of LinkedIn’s recruiting products and services, dubbed Hiring Solutions. Recruiting through LinkedIn, once used mostly in the technology sector, has gone mainstream - 82 of the companies in the Fortune 100 use LinkedIn Recruiter, according to LinkedIn spokesman Richard George. In that year, the company launched LinkedIn Recruiter, a premium service that allows businesses to view and search through every single profile on the network. LinkedIn has undergone a subtle but significant transformation under the leadership of Jeff Weiner, who took over the company in December 2008. ![]() Companies are paying big bucks for the right to look at your profile, whether you’re on the job market right now or not. Today it serves hiring managers as much as it serves job seekers. What you might not know is that over the last several years LinkedIn has quietly redefined the nature of job recruiting. We all have a vague awareness that it might somehow help us get a job some day. Follow knows that they’re supposed to have a LinkedIn profile.
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