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LinkedIn kindly invited me to attend Talent Connect<\/a>, their first large scale customer event hosted this week in San Francisco. Here are some of my key takeaways.
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\nA Crowd of Innovators:<\/strong>
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\nThis was not just a crowd of happy customers. It was clear attendees came to learn and to help. It felt as if the crowd was unified around a common quest: to make the world of recruiting a better place.
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\n120 Million Users and Counting:<\/strong>
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\nIt took LinkedIn 477 days to reach the one million user mark, but only 9 days to sign up their most recent million for a total of over 120m users today. Their growth in the professional world is simply staggering.
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\nHolding 120 million resumes is incredible. Holding 80 million up-to-date resumes is incredibly disruptive. When I left MrTed to found SmartRecruiters<\/a> I immediately updated my LinkedIn profile<\/a>. So LinkedIn has my current profile while every headhunter, ATS, job board, and independent database has become outdated.
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\nIf you\u2019re still relying on old-school databases (including your own for that matter) you are hunting in a graveyard.
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\n\u201cThe Source\u201d:<\/strong>
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\nThe question of whether LinkedIn is going to transform recruiting forever is not a matter of \u201cif\u201d or \u201cwhen\u201d but \u201chow\u201d.
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\nLinkedIn has become and will remain \u201cThe Source\u201d. No more resumes, no more databases. Just standardized online profiles. We have entered an era of transparency. Transparency generates trust and it triggers good behaviors. Now recruiting will have to be social again. And that is great news.
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\nAfter years of hunting, fishing, and farming, recruiters (and managers) will now have to start socializing with the people they wish to hire.
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\nFree Software Forever.<\/em><\/strong> Signup for SmartRecruiters Free Recruiting Software<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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LinkedIn and the Future of Recruiting<\/a><\/blockquote>