The slow decline of LinkedIn Recruiter
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LinkedIn Recruiter is sinking.
It pains me to say this, as on the last Employer Content Show I referred to it as the “World’s Greatest Sourcing Tool.”
Because it still is. It’s a worldwide company directory. And the biggest paradigm shift in the recruiting world since job boards.
It’s done more for the recruiting industry, hiring, and job seeking than, well, anything.
But that was 2008. What have you done for me lately?
The obvious points of how it’s fallen behind:
Recruiters spend 20-50% of their time in a damn sourcing tool. Read: not talking to candidates. Which is the real work.
There’s no real intelligence to it.
Candidates are so flooded with InMails, it’s absurd. The buy-more-and-blast-all revenue model has created an abysmal user experience. Not just for job seekers, but recruiters who realized how ridiculous it is.
It fully integrates with...nothing? The gated black box is soooo 2008. In the world of APIs and web services, c’mon. It’s a disservice to the user.
Sourcing for diversity? Still have to rely on the eyeball method. 🙄
Meanwhile, more and more people are recruiting and job seeking with platforms that weren’t even designed for it. Slack, Discord, Reddit, etc.
Why? Because real people have real conversations there. The “social” aspect of LinkedIn is in an easily-agreeable mess of obvious takes and boring nonsense. They programmed their algo to reward garbage. It’s not an enjoyable platform.
That said: every product has flaws. It still gets the job done for a lot of people. InMails are typically 3x higher response rate than emails (depending on the skill set).
The real question: do users like it? Poll below.
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