Throw away your speadsheets, stacks of business cards and C.V.'s: Talent Pipeline is your all-in-one solution to organising and tracking your leads! In this session, you'll learn how to integrate this powerful new tool into your workflow. We'll cover adding new leads, managing your leads and leveraging Talent Pipeline to conduct more efficient searches, send highly customised messages, track results and increase team communication and collaboration.

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10 Keys to Success with
Talent Pipeline
Ross Carvalho,
Recruitment Product Consultant,
LinkedIn
Jerrold Pelupessy,
Recruitment Product Consultant,
LinkedIn

2. Pipe Dreams
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3. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Why is pipelining important?
 Identify the right talent early
 Reduce your time to hire
 Prevent superstar candidates from slipping away
 Strengthen your employer brand
 Strengthen partnerships with the business
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4. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Lay the foundation: which roles are you
pipelining for?
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Succession
planning gaps
New projects
Hard-to-fill roles
High attrition
roles
Still not sure? Consult your hiring managers!

5. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Lay the foundation: prepare your hiring
managers
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Explain why you are building pipelines
(what are the benefits FOR THEM?)
How will they be involved?
(Candidate screening / communication / events)
What does the market look like?
(Be prepared with data on available candidate
pools)

6. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Build the pipeline process
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Talent Pipeline
ATS
25-30
prospects
8-10
respondents
5 candidates
3 interviews
1 hire
IDENTIFY
COMMUNICATE
MANAGE
CLOSE

7. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Setting up your Talent Pipeline functionality
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Tags
• Skills (java, mobile)
• Job titles (Engineer,
Java Developer)
• Keywords (e.g.
relocate)
Sources
• LinkedIn
• Referral
• Job boards
Status
• New Prospect
• Outreach underway
• Future Prospect
• Not a fit
• Moved to ATS
Also remember to set up your project folders!

8. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Identify your target candidates
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LinkedIn
Recruiter
CV
Databases
ATS
Talent Pipeline
Add a status
“New Prospect”
Add a source

9. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Communicate
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Use messaging
within Recruiter to
contact targets
Change status
“Outreach
underway”

10. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Manage your pipeline
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Add tags to
profile
Manage response
and screen
candidates
Change status
Status: Future Prospect
Status: Not a fit
Status: No Response
Keep your pipeline candidates engaged with regular communication and
events

11. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Close your candidates
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ATS
Applicant Tracking
Change status
“Moved to ATS”
Role is now live!
Interview
Hire

12. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Other challenges you can address with Pipelining
 University Recruiting
 Internal Workforce Planning
 Revitalising Past Leads
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13. Phew, that was a lot!
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14. TALENT CONNECT 2012
10 Keys to Success……
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Lay the foundations
Build your process
Implement your process

15. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Talent Solutions Learning Centre
From beginners to power users: a new destination for you
and your team to master recruiting with LinkedIn!
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16. Thank You
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