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                                          September 30, 2011                               Volume 6, Issue 49



                                          Using Social Networks: How
                                          Global Recruiting Tools
                                          Help Attract Top Talent
                 About the Author         Introduction

                                          In recent years, the downturn in the global economy has forced
                                          companies to critically eye global performance. Not surprisingly,
                                          these dynamics are pushing talent acquisition teams to recruit and
                                          hire more efficiently and effectively. Among the critical tools to do
                                          so is social media, which has exploded in popularity and is revamping
                    Katherine Jones,
                                          the recruiting landscape. Whereas third-party recruiting agencies
                    Principal Analyst     once played a dominant role, especially in some geographies, now
                                          social networking tools help internal recruiters gain more control
                                          over their employment branding and hiring efforts. Many talent
                                          acquisition teams, however, are still learning how best to use these
Bersin & Associates provides objective
                                          vital tools.
   research and analysis performed in
accordance with our rigorous research     This Bersin & Associates research bulletin is targeted to corporate
      methodology. This document is
                                          recruiters in global organizations, and explores how two companies
 underwritten in part by LinkedIn and
                                          – Pfizer Inc. and Red Hat – deployed LinkedIn Recruiting Solutions
  represents the unbiased view of the
                                          worldwide. LinkedIn Recruiting Solutions provides a platform
   analyst, based on conclusions from
                                          through which talent acquisition teams can more easily communicate
                        that research.
                                          with targeted talent and collaborate with other recruiters on their
                                          teams, surpassing the value that LinkedIn by itself provides to users.

                                          Competing for Global Talent

                                          To be competitive in the talent market, global talent acquisition
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                                if deployed discerningly, can even help companies optimize
                                internal performance.

                                Both Pfizer Inc. and Red Hat selected LinkedIn Recruiting Solutions,
                                including the flagship Recruiter product, to improve their employment
                                brands and help their talent acquisition organizations become more
                                cost-effective. The insights of recruiting executives from each company
                                demonstrate best practices for companies planning a global rollout of
                                LinkedIn’s Recruiter platform.

                                Taking Control: From “Post and Pray” to Building a
                                Recruitment Brand That Draws Top Talent

                                Previously, recruiters posted a position on a job board and hoped that
       KEY POINT
                                qualified candidates would respond to it (hence “post and pray”). Social
                                networking has changed that. Today, it plays a crucial role in recruiting
  In the global war
                                candidates, supplanting less efficient job boards and first-generation
  for talent, having
                                applicant tracking systems by enabling companies to locate and attract
  a reputation as a             top talent quickly and economically. Social networking solutions, like
  good employer                 LinkedIn Recruiter, focus on facilitating relationships between users –
  does not necessarily          because building personal relationships with candidates often proves
                                critical to recruitment success.
  mean the right
  candidates apply              A solution such as LinkedIn Recruiting Solutions uses built-in processes
  for the jobs that             and communication tools to allow companies to communicate in a
                                single brand “voice” to their markets of targeted talent. Tools on
  are right for them.
                                LinkedIn can quickly evaluate how effectively recruiting campaigns
                                reach target talent while, at the same time, enabling top talent to more
                                easily reach the recruiters. The result is shortening the time it takes to
                                fill open positions.

                                An Overview of LinkedIn Recruiter: Social Networking
                                Expands and Filters the Prospect Pool

                                A critical element for global talent acquisition teams is the ability to
                                rapidly scale, a capability aided by LinkedIn’s communication platforms.
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                                     Case in Point: Red Hat Capitalizes on Its Ability to Attract
                                     Social-Savvy Employees

                                     Red Hat is the leader in enterprise Linux and is the most
       KEY POINT
                                     recognized open source brand in the world. Founded in 1993,
                                     the company sits at the intersection of cloud computing1 and
  Social networking
                                     business computing, where both the business climate and the
  tools are
                                     labor market are highly competitive. The company currently
  transforming                       employs approximately 4,000 people, one-half of whom are
  the recruiting                     based in the U.S., and it hires about 400 new people per year
  landscape.                         from all around the world. So the company has recruiters
                                     everywhere – in North America, Latin America, Europe, the
                                     Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific markets.

                                     Three years ago, Red Hat had more than 2,500 employees and
                                     was scaling rapidly (the company was making more than $600
                                     million in revenue). The problem was that the company did not
                                     have any meaningful way to scale its recruiting technology and
                                     process – nor a philosophy or approach to internal recruiting.
                                     The company’s talent acquisition team began using LinkedIn
                                     Recruiter after determining that the candidates being targeted
                                     were all early adopters of LinkedIn. In fact, 95 percent of the
                                     people Red Hat hired in the U.S. were already on LinkedIn and
                                     75 percent of its new hires elsewhere around the globe also
                                     already were on the social networking site (other than those in
                                     China, the Czech Republic and Germany).

                                     Within 30 days of launching LinkedIn Recruiter, Red Hat had
                                     what it considered “quality wins” up and down its organization.
                                     The company’s internal recruiters credited the tool with driving
                                     candidates to them and the company has only seen this success




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                                     Case in Point: Red Hat Capitalizes on Its Ability to Attract Social-Savvy
                                     Employees (cont’d)


                                           intensify in the last few years. The Red Hat Career Page on
                                           LinkedIn is shown in Figure 1.2 e



Figure 1: Red Hat’s Career Page




                                                                                                     Source: LinkedIn. 2011.



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                                          Source: http://www.linkedin.com/company/red-hat/careers.



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                                Social Networking in Recruiting

                                Social networking supports hiring managers in several ways, by:

                                •	    Enhancing communication between recruiters, and both job seekers
                                      and passive candidates;

                                •	    Enabling applicant evaluation through the use of online profiles
                                      and references; and,

                                •	    Helping to build a consistent employment brand.

                                LinkedIn Recruiter resides on a social networking-based search
        KEY POINT
                                and communications platform through which talent acquisition
                                professionals can:
  Social networking
  tools help internal           •	    Search deeper into the LinkedIn professional network;
  recruiters gain
                                •	    Communicate directly with targeted talent; and,
  more control over
  their employment              •	    Collaborate within the recruiting team.

  branding and                  Recruiters today often use LinkedIn as end-users to search for talent;
  hiring efforts.               LinkedIn Recruiter allows them to expand those capabilities.

                                LinkedIn Recruiter also enables recruiters to better source candidates
                                and to more successfully collaborate in the search process. Recruiters
                                can share searches, profiles, notes on candidates and “InMails3,” so
                                that talent management teams can collaborate effectively, whether on
                                recruitment, hiring strategies or employee branding initiatives.

                                In addition, recruiters can conduct searches of all LinkedIn profiles and
                                initiate conversations with target candidates anywhere in the world
                                using the built-in templates at LinkedIn InMail. Talent acquisition teams
                                can create personal profiles that attract targeted talent, post jobs
                                directly from LinkedIn Recruiter to LinkedIn Jobs Network, monitor
                                conversations across the web, set profile reminders to follow up with
                                candidates in a timely fashion and collaborate across LinkedIn Groups
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Figure 2: LinkedIn Recruiter




                                                                                               Source: LinkedIn. 2011.


                                  Branding to Hire

                                  Recruitment brand-building is critical, and requires both building a
                                  consistent global brand and controlling the channels through which
                                  that brand’s message is conveyed. LinkedIn Recruiting Solutions allows
                                  enterprises to build a recruitment brand campaign through its ability
                                  to foster connections to and build closer connections with job seekers,
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                                     Case in Point: Pfizer Goes Social for Employment Branding

                                     Pfizer Inc., founded in 1849 and headquartered in New York,
        KEY POINT
                                     is a leading global biopharmaceutical company that offers
                                     prescription medicines for humans and animals worldwide.
  Recruitment brand-
                                     Historically, the company had a decentralized talent
  building is critical,
                                     organization, with recruiters reporting up through different
  and requires                       lines of business or regions. In 2009, recognizing the need to
  both building                      scale and coordinate recruiting efforts to build a recruitment
  a consistent                       brand and attract top talent, the company formed a global
                                     talent acquisition team.
  global brand and
  controlling the                    Today, Pfizer has a vice president of talent acquisition, under
  channels through                   whom are regional directors who manage recruitment within
                                     each geographic region. The company’s talent acquisition model
  which that
                                     enables its directors to create teams to meet the specific talent
  brand’s message is
                                     acquisition needs of each region. Currently, the company has 51
  conveyed.                          recruiters across the globe using the LinkedIn Recruiter platform.
                                     The only area in which the company has not completely rolled
                                     out LinkedIn Recruiter is in the Asia-Pacific market.

                                     The company’s applicant tracking system does not enable it to
                                     accurately track the source of hires, so LinkedIn Recruiter has
                                     become the resource through which Pfizer’s talent acquisition
                                     team does this. The team can view the volume of activity
                                     generated by jobs placed on the LinkedIn Jobs Network, see
                                     who views each job and understand how well jobs are being
                                     seen to determine whether jobs posted are reaching the target
                                     audience. The manager of branding and operational excellence
                                     for Pfizer cites the level of reporting it receives from LinkedIn
                                     Recruiter and LinkedIn Reports as unparalleled.

                                              “[LinkedIn] is a significant connection partner that
                                                  supports my team’s strategy and helps us reach
                                               around the globe with ease. It has truly made the
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                                Case in Point: Pfizer Goes Social for Employment Branding (cont’d)


                                     company derives recruitment insights from the solution to
                                     understand how people perceive the Pfizer brand and then
                                     launches targeted materials to give individuals information
                                     requiring feedback, which can be measured again to see
                                     how perceptions of the Pfizer employee brand are changing.
                                     Recruiters also use the question-and-answer section on LinkedIn,
                                     so that they can build credibility with their own personal brands
                                     on LinkedIn. e



                                For industries whose target candidates tend to be technologically
      A N A LY S I S
                                savvy, LinkedIn Recruiter may offer an ideal social networking
                                recruitment solution.
  To be competitive
  in the talent                 Red Hat uses LinkedIn Recruiter to drive top talent who is already using
  market, global                LinkedIn to the Red Hat brand.
  talent acquisition
  teams should
  learn to execute                   Case in Point: Red Hat’s Talent Pool
  a successful talent
                                     Red Hat realized that the vast majority of the company’s target
  acquisition and                    talent pool was already using LinkedIn, in part due to the
  employment                         “early adopter” mentality of the company’s technology-driven
  branding strategy                  industry. The talent acquisition team held internal discussions
  using social                       about the metrics on finding the right candidates for Red Hat,
  media tools.                       using LinkedIn Recruiter to help convince colleagues to invest
                                     time in learning the platform. The company decreased spending
                                     on, and use of, its other recruitment tools after internal research
                                     showed that people were getting results with
                                     LinkedIn Recruiter. e



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                               •	   Provide training to the recruiters who will use the tool and then
                                    ensure that it is actually being used.

                               For the global organization, LinkedIn Recruiter provides key flexibility –
                               it can be scaled as needed and used as required in various markets
                               to meet different recruiting needs. Starting small gives talent
                               organizations the option to “tweak” strategies that work best in
                               different markets as they increase their use of LinkedIn Recruiter.



                                    Case in Point: Piloting at Pfizer

                                    Pfizer’s talent acquisition team initially started small –
                                    purchasing three LinkedIn Recruiter user licenses and five
                                    Job Slots4 in the U.S. in 2008. The three user licenses were
                                    purchased for use by junior-level recruiters who supported the
                                    company’s three major divisions (sales, business, and research
                                    and development), each of whom is responsible for posting jobs
                                    and assessing the efficacy of the solution. When Pfizer recruiters
                                    realized that they could find the majority of candidates without
                                    using agencies, they invested further in LinkedIn Recruiter. e



                               Successful Deployment of LinkedIn Recruiter

                               When deploying a new solution to a team of recruiters who work in
                               different time zones and geographies, the following three issues are
                               essential to success.

                               1.	 Training – Continually reinforcing correct behaviors and training on
                                    new processes help users to extract the greatest value from a social
                                    networking investment. It also clarifies what works best in which
                                    locations. Teams may have different needs depending upon cultural
                                    norms, talent pools targeted, et al.

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                               LinkedIn Recruiter gives users the ability to customize their usage
                               reports, enabling talent acquisition leaders to track how successfully
                               their recruiting teams operate around the globe. This software also
                               offers metrics by which to assess the company’s own communication
                               and team performance.



                                    Case in Point: Pfizer Measures Recruiter Use

                                    Customized reports allow Pfizer’s talent acquisition team
                                    to monitor adoption rates and understand where in
                                    the organization training is most needed. The company
                                    acknowledged spending an “inordinate” amount of time on
                                    change management and holding repeat training sessions for its
                                    talent acquisition staff.

                                    LinkedIn representatives went to regional team meetings and
                                    attended a lengthy all-hands meeting in New York at which every
                                    recruiter in Pfizer was present. Pfizer’s global talent acquisition
                                    leaders also worked with its sourcing teams and hiring managers
                                    as they collaborated on the skills sets sought, while using LinkedIn
                                    to post jobs and post their own profiles. What made this possible
                                    was the company’s ability to measure recruiter usage rates on
                                    LinkedIn Recruiter, and to monitor region-by-region usage rates
                                    and InMail response rates for each recruiter.

                                    •	   For a company dealing with teams in European and Asian
                                         markets that routinely use external recruiting agencies,
                                         LinkedIn Recruiter has had a transformational effect on
                                         Pfizer’s recruiting organization.

                                    •	   Pfizer’s talent acquisition leadership initially had early
                                         successes with LinkedIn Recruiter to foster broader global
                                         adoption within the team by having each of its regions
                                         nominate a person from their team who would serve in a
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                                Case in Point: Pfizer Measures Recruiter Use (cont’d)


                                     	   the same, if not better, results with LinkedIn Recruiter.
                                         Talent acquisition leadership members leveraged the
                                         advantage of their inside view; they inherently had a better
                                         “picture” of the organization and culturally understood the
                                         organization better than any outside agency ever could. e



                                Monitor Usage Patterns for Faster Global Deployment

                                Monitoring usage and response enables talent acquisition organizations
                                to pinpoint where recruiter training is needed most, thereby
                                streamlining deployment of social networking solutions like LinkedIn
                                Recruiter while enhancing team performance. For example, Red
       KEY POINT
                                Hat’s senior director of global talent acquisition and infrastructure
  With its global               commented that the firm could have sped up the adoption and
                                effectiveness of LinkedIn Recruiter with a more regional rather than
  rollout of LinkedIn
                                global approach. The company’s recruiting leaders found that they had
  Recruiter, Red Hat
                                to spend time working with each regional market’s team members to
  reduced its agency            help them gain familiarity with the tool.
  fees by 80 percent
  and total cost of             Reduce Total Recruiting Costs
  recruiting by                 Monitoring recruitment successes also helps teams better understand
  20 percent.                   how targeted talent perceived the company’s brand. It also
                                demonstrated the savings derived through the use of LinkedIn Recruiter.



                                     Case in Point: Red Hat Lowers Cost of Recruiting

                                     With its global rollout of LinkedIn Recruiter, Red Hat reduced
                                     its agency fees by 80 percent and total cost of recruiting by 20
                                     percent. The company dramatically reduced its job board budget
                                     once LinkedIn Recruiter was put in place. It then redirected 60
                                     percent of the money saved into building the team, and funding
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                                Case in Point: Red Hat Lowers Cost of Recruiting (cont’d)

        KEY POINT
                                     since it began using LinkedIn Recruiter. According to the senior
  Consider                           director of talent acquisition and infrastructure for Red Hat,

  incomplete                                    “Three years ago, we largely outsourced looking
  profiles. Red Hat                          for many of our critical hires; now today we largely
  recruiters found                         in-source and use the LinkedIn Recruiter platform for
  that top candidates                         our critical hires. We did not have a good database
  were so busy at                               frankly, so it instantly gave us a database that far
                                            exceeded any of the vendors we were using. Then it
  work, they had
                                                               was just incumbent on us to get the
  not taken time
                                                                              maximum benefit.” e
  to update their
  profiles. As the
  company’s senior              Bersin & Associates ongoing research demonstrates that tracking metrics
  director of talent            is important to evaluating recruiting performance. Recruiting managers
                                who measure their cost-savings (e.g., in vendor fees or time required to
  acquisition and
                                source a candidate) not only lower their total cost of recruiting, but also
  infrastructure                can better explain the quantitative value of their efforts to the company
  noted, “Those                 as a whole.
  are probably the
                                Not incidentally, the companies we spoke with believe that they are
  people we want                hiring a higher caliber of candidate today than they were before they
  to target.”                   began using LinkedIn Recruiter. Whether this is due to greater ease of
                                targeting candidates or to the significant investment these companies
                                have made in training staff on how to use LinkedIn Recruiter is not
                                clear. To these companies, however, the benefits are clearly tangible.

                                Using LinkedIn Recruiter, Red Hat and Pfizer, Inc. report that they were
                                able to:

                                •	   Address strategic global talent acquisition and performance
                                     management needs;

                                •	   Use a social networking strategy and solution for recruiter training
                                     and recruitment brand building needs;
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                                Social Media in Recruiting: First Steps

                                For organizations actively recruiting, this research offers some guidance
                                on how to enhance and elevate those efforts, including the following.

                                •	   If the majority of candidates who the company has hired or is
                                     targeting to hire is on LinkedIn, then LinkedIn Recruiter may prove
                                     to be a useful tool. Both Red Hat and Pfizer executives told us that
                                     this knowledge convinced them to invest in LinkedIn Recruiter.

                                •	   Evaluate your talent acquisition goals before committing to a social
                                     recruiting strategy. Start with a pilot program and evaluate its
                                     results before going global.

                                •	   Deploy a customized region-by-region rollout. What works in
        KEY POINT
                                     Europe, for example, does not necessarily work in Latin America.
  Encourage                          Companies interviewed here had the flexibility to use a variety of

  recruiters to
                                     different products, depending upon the regional team’s needs.

  build robust                  •	   Roll out enhanced corporate profile pages and career pages
  and meaningful                     targeted to specific regions and functions.
  personal profiles.
                                •	   Encourage recruiters to build robust and meaningful personal
                                     profiles. Recruiters with good personal profiles have the highest
                                     response rates and the most conversions. Recruiters who do not
                                     seem to be authentic or well-informed about the jobs they are
                                     seeking to fill are less successful. Pfizer has done significant training
                                     with its recruiting teams to teach them how to build their own
                                     personal recruitment “brands,” including training them to write
                                     effective InMails.

                                •	   The companies participating in this research shared the activities
                                     which their recruiting leadership cited as most critical to the success
                                     of these programs:

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                                     o	 Monitor quarterly recruiter usage rates and InMail response
                                         rates region by region to best determine how to improve
                                         training; and,

                                     o	 Add LinkedIn usage rates and “Who’s Viewed This Job” analytics
                                         to the recruiters’ dashboards.

                                •	   Encourage recruiting teams to give equal credence to incomplete
                                     (or “skeleton”) profiles on LinkedIn. Red Hat recruiters found that
                                     many top candidates have incomplete profiles. A likely explanation
                                     is that they are so busy at work they have not had time to update
                                     their profiles, but were likely the very candidates the company most
                                     wanted to attract.

                                •	   Share best practices; partner with corporate communications to
                                     make sure that the company speaks with one brand “voice.”

                                •	   Leverage scale to save costs and develop a social media policy.

                                •	   Employees are the best brand ambassadors. Engage them in
                                     promoting the company’s image as a good place to work and
                                     feature them in the company’s social media. Their personalized
        KEY POINT                    presence often establishes the emotional connection that top
                                     candidates seek.
  In today’s talent
  wars, companies               Conclusion
  which exploit                 Bersin & Associates sees social marketing tools transforming global
  the cutting-edge              recruiting practices. In today’s talent wars, companies which exploit the
  potential of social           cutting-edge potential of social networking have discovered that they
                                can hire faster and smarter. They have successfully and economically
  networking have
                                targeted an expansive pool of top talent through collaborative hiring
  discovered that
                                processes that are enabled by social networking. The exploding
  they can hire faster          popularity of sites, such as LinkedIn, is revolutionizing recruiting –
  and smarter.                  allowing companies to expand their searches for top talent around the
                                globe in minutes.
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  • 1. Research Bulletin | 2011 BERSIN & ASSOCIATES September 30, 2011 Volume 6, Issue 49 Using Social Networks: How Global Recruiting Tools Help Attract Top Talent About the Author Introduction In recent years, the downturn in the global economy has forced companies to critically eye global performance. Not surprisingly, these dynamics are pushing talent acquisition teams to recruit and hire more efficiently and effectively. Among the critical tools to do so is social media, which has exploded in popularity and is revamping Katherine Jones, the recruiting landscape. Whereas third-party recruiting agencies Principal Analyst once played a dominant role, especially in some geographies, now social networking tools help internal recruiters gain more control over their employment branding and hiring efforts. Many talent acquisition teams, however, are still learning how best to use these Bersin & Associates provides objective vital tools. research and analysis performed in accordance with our rigorous research This Bersin & Associates research bulletin is targeted to corporate methodology. This document is recruiters in global organizations, and explores how two companies underwritten in part by LinkedIn and – Pfizer Inc. and Red Hat – deployed LinkedIn Recruiting Solutions represents the unbiased view of the worldwide. LinkedIn Recruiting Solutions provides a platform analyst, based on conclusions from through which talent acquisition teams can more easily communicate that research. with targeted talent and collaborate with other recruiters on their teams, surpassing the value that LinkedIn by itself provides to users. Competing for Global Talent To be competitive in the talent market, global talent acquisition BERSIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC teams should learn to execute a successful talent acquisition and 180 GRAND AVENUE SUITE 320 employment branding strategy using social media tools. Bersin & OAKLAND, CA 94612 Associates research shows that these tools can improve internal (510) 251-4400 team, organizational and brand performance markedly – and rapidly. INFO@BERSIN.COM Smart use of social marketing tools gives recruiters better control of WWW.BERSIN.COM channels used globally to communicate with target candidates and, THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO LINKEDIN FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011
  • 2. Research Bulletin | 2011 Research Bulletin | 2011 BERSIN & ASSOCIATES BERSIN & ASSOCIATES if deployed discerningly, can even help companies optimize internal performance. Both Pfizer Inc. and Red Hat selected LinkedIn Recruiting Solutions, including the flagship Recruiter product, to improve their employment brands and help their talent acquisition organizations become more cost-effective. The insights of recruiting executives from each company demonstrate best practices for companies planning a global rollout of LinkedIn’s Recruiter platform. Taking Control: From “Post and Pray” to Building a Recruitment Brand That Draws Top Talent Previously, recruiters posted a position on a job board and hoped that KEY POINT qualified candidates would respond to it (hence “post and pray”). Social networking has changed that. Today, it plays a crucial role in recruiting In the global war candidates, supplanting less efficient job boards and first-generation for talent, having applicant tracking systems by enabling companies to locate and attract a reputation as a top talent quickly and economically. Social networking solutions, like good employer LinkedIn Recruiter, focus on facilitating relationships between users – does not necessarily because building personal relationships with candidates often proves critical to recruitment success. mean the right candidates apply A solution such as LinkedIn Recruiting Solutions uses built-in processes for the jobs that and communication tools to allow companies to communicate in a single brand “voice” to their markets of targeted talent. Tools on are right for them. LinkedIn can quickly evaluate how effectively recruiting campaigns reach target talent while, at the same time, enabling top talent to more easily reach the recruiters. The result is shortening the time it takes to fill open positions. An Overview of LinkedIn Recruiter: Social Networking Expands and Filters the Prospect Pool A critical element for global talent acquisition teams is the ability to rapidly scale, a capability aided by LinkedIn’s communication platforms. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC Recruiters in global talent acquisition organizations have direct access 6114 LA SALLE AVENUE to 120 million professionals. From this talent pool (the largest of its SUITE 417 kind available online), companies can source applicants looking for new OAKLAND, CA 94611 roles, as well as “passive candidates” who are not in the job market, but (510) 654-8500 may be persuaded to change for the right opportunity. INFO@BERSIN.COM WWW.BERSIN.COM Using Social Networks Katherine Jones | Page 2 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO EXPERTUS FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO LINKEDIN FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011
  • 3. Research Bulletin | 2011 Research Bulletin | 2011 BERSIN & ASSOCIATES BERSIN & ASSOCIATES Case in Point: Red Hat Capitalizes on Its Ability to Attract Social-Savvy Employees Red Hat is the leader in enterprise Linux and is the most KEY POINT recognized open source brand in the world. Founded in 1993, the company sits at the intersection of cloud computing1 and Social networking business computing, where both the business climate and the tools are labor market are highly competitive. The company currently transforming employs approximately 4,000 people, one-half of whom are the recruiting based in the U.S., and it hires about 400 new people per year landscape. from all around the world. So the company has recruiters everywhere – in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific markets. Three years ago, Red Hat had more than 2,500 employees and was scaling rapidly (the company was making more than $600 million in revenue). The problem was that the company did not have any meaningful way to scale its recruiting technology and process – nor a philosophy or approach to internal recruiting. The company’s talent acquisition team began using LinkedIn Recruiter after determining that the candidates being targeted were all early adopters of LinkedIn. In fact, 95 percent of the people Red Hat hired in the U.S. were already on LinkedIn and 75 percent of its new hires elsewhere around the globe also already were on the social networking site (other than those in China, the Czech Republic and Germany). Within 30 days of launching LinkedIn Recruiter, Red Hat had what it considered “quality wins” up and down its organization. The company’s internal recruiters credited the tool with driving candidates to them and the company has only seen this success 1 The term “cloud computing” originates from the common practice of using a cloud BERSIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC symbol to stand for the often nebulous networks (especially the public Internet) in between 6114 LA SALLE AVENUE an end-user computer and the various servers and services that user accesses. Originally a buzzword in the IT world, cloud computing is a natural extension of the concepts of SaaS SUITE 417 and services-oriented architectures. For instance, imagine that every one of the systems you OAKLAND, CA 94611 use in your company was delivered to you on a fully SaaS basis – and yet (because those (510) 654-8500 systems were designed to be open), each of those systems was fully integrated with each other. The IT department within your company would not need to worry about questions of INFO@BERSIN.COM hardware (other than the PC on your desktop), data centers, system integrations, et al. That WWW.BERSIN.COM is the vision of cloud computing. Using Social Networks Katherine Jones | Page 3 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO EXPERTUS FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO LINKEDIN FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011
  • 4. Research Bulletin | 2011 Research Bulletin | 2011 BERSIN & ASSOCIATES BERSIN & ASSOCIATES Case in Point: Red Hat Capitalizes on Its Ability to Attract Social-Savvy Employees (cont’d) intensify in the last few years. The Red Hat Career Page on LinkedIn is shown in Figure 1.2 e Figure 1: Red Hat’s Career Page Source: LinkedIn. 2011. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 6114 LA SALLE AVENUE SUITE 417 OAKLAND, CA 94611 (510) 654-8500 INFO@BERSIN.COM WWW.BERSIN.COM 2 Source: http://www.linkedin.com/company/red-hat/careers. Using Social Networks Katherine Jones | Page 4 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO EXPERTUS FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO LINKEDIN FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011
  • 5. Research Bulletin | 2011 Research Bulletin | 2011 BERSIN & ASSOCIATES BERSIN & ASSOCIATES Social Networking in Recruiting Social networking supports hiring managers in several ways, by: • Enhancing communication between recruiters, and both job seekers and passive candidates; • Enabling applicant evaluation through the use of online profiles and references; and, • Helping to build a consistent employment brand. LinkedIn Recruiter resides on a social networking-based search KEY POINT and communications platform through which talent acquisition professionals can: Social networking tools help internal • Search deeper into the LinkedIn professional network; recruiters gain • Communicate directly with targeted talent; and, more control over their employment • Collaborate within the recruiting team. branding and Recruiters today often use LinkedIn as end-users to search for talent; hiring efforts. LinkedIn Recruiter allows them to expand those capabilities. LinkedIn Recruiter also enables recruiters to better source candidates and to more successfully collaborate in the search process. Recruiters can share searches, profiles, notes on candidates and “InMails3,” so that talent management teams can collaborate effectively, whether on recruitment, hiring strategies or employee branding initiatives. In addition, recruiters can conduct searches of all LinkedIn profiles and initiate conversations with target candidates anywhere in the world using the built-in templates at LinkedIn InMail. Talent acquisition teams can create personal profiles that attract targeted talent, post jobs directly from LinkedIn Recruiter to LinkedIn Jobs Network, monitor conversations across the web, set profile reminders to follow up with candidates in a timely fashion and collaborate across LinkedIn Groups BERSIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC with peers while also communicating in Groups with job seekers (see 6114 LA SALLE AVENUE Figure 2). SUITE 417 OAKLAND, CA 94611 (510) 654-8500 INFO@BERSIN.COM WWW.BERSIN.COM 3 “InMail®” is LinkedIn’s messaging environment. Using Social Networks Katherine Jones | Page 5 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO EXPERTUS FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO LINKEDIN FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011
  • 6. Research Bulletin | 2011 Research Bulletin | 2011 BERSIN & ASSOCIATES BERSIN & ASSOCIATES Figure 2: LinkedIn Recruiter Source: LinkedIn. 2011. Branding to Hire Recruitment brand-building is critical, and requires both building a consistent global brand and controlling the channels through which that brand’s message is conveyed. LinkedIn Recruiting Solutions allows enterprises to build a recruitment brand campaign through its ability to foster connections to and build closer connections with job seekers, BERSIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC and to enhance brand awareness among a global talent pool. LinkedIn 6114 LA SALLE AVENUE achieves this whereas traditional applicant tracking systems cannot (see SUITE 417 the following case in point). OAKLAND, CA 94611 (510) 654-8500 INFO@BERSIN.COM WWW.BERSIN.COM Using Social Networks Katherine Jones | Page 6 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO EXPERTUS FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO LINKEDIN FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011
  • 7. Research Bulletin | 2011 Research Bulletin | 2011 BERSIN & ASSOCIATES BERSIN & ASSOCIATES Case in Point: Pfizer Goes Social for Employment Branding Pfizer Inc., founded in 1849 and headquartered in New York, KEY POINT is a leading global biopharmaceutical company that offers prescription medicines for humans and animals worldwide. Recruitment brand- Historically, the company had a decentralized talent building is critical, organization, with recruiters reporting up through different and requires lines of business or regions. In 2009, recognizing the need to both building scale and coordinate recruiting efforts to build a recruitment a consistent brand and attract top talent, the company formed a global talent acquisition team. global brand and controlling the Today, Pfizer has a vice president of talent acquisition, under channels through whom are regional directors who manage recruitment within each geographic region. The company’s talent acquisition model which that enables its directors to create teams to meet the specific talent brand’s message is acquisition needs of each region. Currently, the company has 51 conveyed. recruiters across the globe using the LinkedIn Recruiter platform. The only area in which the company has not completely rolled out LinkedIn Recruiter is in the Asia-Pacific market. The company’s applicant tracking system does not enable it to accurately track the source of hires, so LinkedIn Recruiter has become the resource through which Pfizer’s talent acquisition team does this. The team can view the volume of activity generated by jobs placed on the LinkedIn Jobs Network, see who views each job and understand how well jobs are being seen to determine whether jobs posted are reaching the target audience. The manager of branding and operational excellence for Pfizer cites the level of reporting it receives from LinkedIn Recruiter and LinkedIn Reports as unparalleled. “[LinkedIn] is a significant connection partner that supports my team’s strategy and helps us reach around the globe with ease. It has truly made the BERSIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC world a lot smaller.” 6114 LA SALLE AVENUE SUITE 417 LinkedIn Recruiting Solutions have proven to be so powerful OAKLAND, CA 94611 within Pfizer that the company recently launched its new global (510) 654-8500 recruitment brand using LinkedIn as the primary vehicle. The INFO@BERSIN.COM WWW.BERSIN.COM Using Social Networks Katherine Jones | Page 7 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO EXPERTUS FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO LINKEDIN FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011
  • 8. Research Bulletin | 2011 Research Bulletin | 2011 BERSIN & ASSOCIATES BERSIN & ASSOCIATES Case in Point: Pfizer Goes Social for Employment Branding (cont’d) company derives recruitment insights from the solution to understand how people perceive the Pfizer brand and then launches targeted materials to give individuals information requiring feedback, which can be measured again to see how perceptions of the Pfizer employee brand are changing. Recruiters also use the question-and-answer section on LinkedIn, so that they can build credibility with their own personal brands on LinkedIn. e For industries whose target candidates tend to be technologically A N A LY S I S savvy, LinkedIn Recruiter may offer an ideal social networking recruitment solution. To be competitive in the talent Red Hat uses LinkedIn Recruiter to drive top talent who is already using market, global LinkedIn to the Red Hat brand. talent acquisition teams should learn to execute Case in Point: Red Hat’s Talent Pool a successful talent Red Hat realized that the vast majority of the company’s target acquisition and talent pool was already using LinkedIn, in part due to the employment “early adopter” mentality of the company’s technology-driven branding strategy industry. The talent acquisition team held internal discussions using social about the metrics on finding the right candidates for Red Hat, media tools. using LinkedIn Recruiter to help convince colleagues to invest time in learning the platform. The company decreased spending on, and use of, its other recruitment tools after internal research showed that people were getting results with LinkedIn Recruiter. e Best Practices in Social Recruiting BERSIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC From these LinkedIn deployments, best practices are beginning 6114 LA SALLE AVENUE to emerge: SUITE 417 OAKLAND, CA 94611 • Start with small pilots; (510) 654-8500 INFO@BERSIN.COM • Measure initial success before global rollouts; WWW.BERSIN.COM Using Social Networks Katherine Jones | Page 8 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO EXPERTUS FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO LINKEDIN FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011
  • 9. Research Bulletin | 2011 Research Bulletin | 2011 BERSIN & ASSOCIATES BERSIN & ASSOCIATES • Provide training to the recruiters who will use the tool and then ensure that it is actually being used. For the global organization, LinkedIn Recruiter provides key flexibility – it can be scaled as needed and used as required in various markets to meet different recruiting needs. Starting small gives talent organizations the option to “tweak” strategies that work best in different markets as they increase their use of LinkedIn Recruiter. Case in Point: Piloting at Pfizer Pfizer’s talent acquisition team initially started small – purchasing three LinkedIn Recruiter user licenses and five Job Slots4 in the U.S. in 2008. The three user licenses were purchased for use by junior-level recruiters who supported the company’s three major divisions (sales, business, and research and development), each of whom is responsible for posting jobs and assessing the efficacy of the solution. When Pfizer recruiters realized that they could find the majority of candidates without using agencies, they invested further in LinkedIn Recruiter. e Successful Deployment of LinkedIn Recruiter When deploying a new solution to a team of recruiters who work in different time zones and geographies, the following three issues are essential to success. 1. Training – Continually reinforcing correct behaviors and training on new processes help users to extract the greatest value from a social networking investment. It also clarifies what works best in which locations. Teams may have different needs depending upon cultural norms, talent pools targeted, et al. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 2. Utilization – Making sure that staff members use the 6114 LA SALLE AVENUE solution deployed. SUITE 417 OAKLAND, CA 94611 3. Measurement – Effectively assessing the results. Metrics matter. (510) 654-8500 INFO@BERSIN.COM 4 “Job Slots” are the job postings on the LinkedIn Jobs Network that automatically target WWW.BERSIN.COM relevant candidates. Using Social Networks Katherine Jones | Page 9 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO EXPERTUS FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO LINKEDIN FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011
  • 10. Research Bulletin | 2011 Research Bulletin | 2011 BERSIN & ASSOCIATES BERSIN & ASSOCIATES LinkedIn Recruiter gives users the ability to customize their usage reports, enabling talent acquisition leaders to track how successfully their recruiting teams operate around the globe. This software also offers metrics by which to assess the company’s own communication and team performance. Case in Point: Pfizer Measures Recruiter Use Customized reports allow Pfizer’s talent acquisition team to monitor adoption rates and understand where in the organization training is most needed. The company acknowledged spending an “inordinate” amount of time on change management and holding repeat training sessions for its talent acquisition staff. LinkedIn representatives went to regional team meetings and attended a lengthy all-hands meeting in New York at which every recruiter in Pfizer was present. Pfizer’s global talent acquisition leaders also worked with its sourcing teams and hiring managers as they collaborated on the skills sets sought, while using LinkedIn to post jobs and post their own profiles. What made this possible was the company’s ability to measure recruiter usage rates on LinkedIn Recruiter, and to monitor region-by-region usage rates and InMail response rates for each recruiter. • For a company dealing with teams in European and Asian markets that routinely use external recruiting agencies, LinkedIn Recruiter has had a transformational effect on Pfizer’s recruiting organization. • Pfizer’s talent acquisition leadership initially had early successes with LinkedIn Recruiter to foster broader global adoption within the team by having each of its regions nominate a person from their team who would serve in a BERSIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC “super user” role. In recognizing and rewarding these users, 6114 LA SALLE AVENUE the company encouraged other team members to follow SUITE 417 their leads. The effort has proved successful. Pfizer overcame OAKLAND, CA 94611 a dependence on external recruiting agencies in some of its (510) 654-8500 international markets by demonstrating how it could deliver INFO@BERSIN.COM WWW.BERSIN.COM Using Social Networks Katherine Jones | Page 10 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO EXPERTUS FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO LINKEDIN FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011
  • 11. Research Bulletin | 2011 Research Bulletin | 2011 BERSIN & ASSOCIATES BERSIN & ASSOCIATES Case in Point: Pfizer Measures Recruiter Use (cont’d) the same, if not better, results with LinkedIn Recruiter. Talent acquisition leadership members leveraged the advantage of their inside view; they inherently had a better “picture” of the organization and culturally understood the organization better than any outside agency ever could. e Monitor Usage Patterns for Faster Global Deployment Monitoring usage and response enables talent acquisition organizations to pinpoint where recruiter training is needed most, thereby streamlining deployment of social networking solutions like LinkedIn Recruiter while enhancing team performance. For example, Red KEY POINT Hat’s senior director of global talent acquisition and infrastructure With its global commented that the firm could have sped up the adoption and effectiveness of LinkedIn Recruiter with a more regional rather than rollout of LinkedIn global approach. The company’s recruiting leaders found that they had Recruiter, Red Hat to spend time working with each regional market’s team members to reduced its agency help them gain familiarity with the tool. fees by 80 percent and total cost of Reduce Total Recruiting Costs recruiting by Monitoring recruitment successes also helps teams better understand 20 percent. how targeted talent perceived the company’s brand. It also demonstrated the savings derived through the use of LinkedIn Recruiter. Case in Point: Red Hat Lowers Cost of Recruiting With its global rollout of LinkedIn Recruiter, Red Hat reduced its agency fees by 80 percent and total cost of recruiting by 20 percent. The company dramatically reduced its job board budget once LinkedIn Recruiter was put in place. It then redirected 60 percent of the money saved into building the team, and funding BERSIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC the company’s relationship with LinkedIn and others. Red Hat 6114 LA SALLE AVENUE also has reduced the time it takes to source candidates. At the SUITE 417 same time, the company has increased hiring by 20 percent. Red OAKLAND, CA 94611 (510) 654-8500 Hat reports a dramatic change in time to present and time to fill INFO@BERSIN.COM WWW.BERSIN.COM Using Social Networks Katherine Jones | Page 11 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO EXPERTUS FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO LINKEDIN FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011
  • 12. Research Bulletin | 2011 Research Bulletin | 2011 BERSIN & ASSOCIATES BERSIN & ASSOCIATES Case in Point: Red Hat Lowers Cost of Recruiting (cont’d) KEY POINT since it began using LinkedIn Recruiter. According to the senior Consider director of talent acquisition and infrastructure for Red Hat, incomplete “Three years ago, we largely outsourced looking profiles. Red Hat for many of our critical hires; now today we largely recruiters found in-source and use the LinkedIn Recruiter platform for that top candidates our critical hires. We did not have a good database were so busy at frankly, so it instantly gave us a database that far exceeded any of the vendors we were using. Then it work, they had was just incumbent on us to get the not taken time maximum benefit.” e to update their profiles. As the company’s senior Bersin & Associates ongoing research demonstrates that tracking metrics director of talent is important to evaluating recruiting performance. Recruiting managers who measure their cost-savings (e.g., in vendor fees or time required to acquisition and source a candidate) not only lower their total cost of recruiting, but also infrastructure can better explain the quantitative value of their efforts to the company noted, “Those as a whole. are probably the Not incidentally, the companies we spoke with believe that they are people we want hiring a higher caliber of candidate today than they were before they to target.” began using LinkedIn Recruiter. Whether this is due to greater ease of targeting candidates or to the significant investment these companies have made in training staff on how to use LinkedIn Recruiter is not clear. To these companies, however, the benefits are clearly tangible. Using LinkedIn Recruiter, Red Hat and Pfizer, Inc. report that they were able to: • Address strategic global talent acquisition and performance management needs; • Use a social networking strategy and solution for recruiter training and recruitment brand building needs; BERSIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 6114 LA SALLE AVENUE • Monitor and measure talent acquisition performance internally; SUITE 417 OAKLAND, CA 94611 • Build relationships with target talent on a scale heretofore (510) 654-8500 unmatched; and, INFO@BERSIN.COM WWW.BERSIN.COM • Reduce overall hiring budgets. Using Social Networks Katherine Jones | Page 12 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO EXPERTUS FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO LINKEDIN FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011
  • 13. Research Bulletin | 2011 Research Bulletin | 2011 BERSIN & ASSOCIATES BERSIN & ASSOCIATES Social Media in Recruiting: First Steps For organizations actively recruiting, this research offers some guidance on how to enhance and elevate those efforts, including the following. • If the majority of candidates who the company has hired or is targeting to hire is on LinkedIn, then LinkedIn Recruiter may prove to be a useful tool. Both Red Hat and Pfizer executives told us that this knowledge convinced them to invest in LinkedIn Recruiter. • Evaluate your talent acquisition goals before committing to a social recruiting strategy. Start with a pilot program and evaluate its results before going global. • Deploy a customized region-by-region rollout. What works in KEY POINT Europe, for example, does not necessarily work in Latin America. Encourage Companies interviewed here had the flexibility to use a variety of recruiters to different products, depending upon the regional team’s needs. build robust • Roll out enhanced corporate profile pages and career pages and meaningful targeted to specific regions and functions. personal profiles. • Encourage recruiters to build robust and meaningful personal profiles. Recruiters with good personal profiles have the highest response rates and the most conversions. Recruiters who do not seem to be authentic or well-informed about the jobs they are seeking to fill are less successful. Pfizer has done significant training with its recruiting teams to teach them how to build their own personal recruitment “brands,” including training them to write effective InMails. • The companies participating in this research shared the activities which their recruiting leadership cited as most critical to the success of these programs: o Provide ongoing training; BERSIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 6114 LA SALLE AVENUE o Build annual training and host monthly drop-in webinars for all SUITE 417 recruiters using the application; OAKLAND, CA 94611 (510) 654-8500 o Develop tools to educate hiring managers and colleague groups INFO@BERSIN.COM on effective usage of LinkedIn; WWW.BERSIN.COM Using Social Networks Katherine Jones | Page 13 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO EXPERTUS FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO LINKEDIN FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011
  • 14. Research Bulletin | 2011 Research Bulletin | 2011 BERSIN & ASSOCIATES BERSIN & ASSOCIATES o Monitor quarterly recruiter usage rates and InMail response rates region by region to best determine how to improve training; and, o Add LinkedIn usage rates and “Who’s Viewed This Job” analytics to the recruiters’ dashboards. • Encourage recruiting teams to give equal credence to incomplete (or “skeleton”) profiles on LinkedIn. Red Hat recruiters found that many top candidates have incomplete profiles. A likely explanation is that they are so busy at work they have not had time to update their profiles, but were likely the very candidates the company most wanted to attract. • Share best practices; partner with corporate communications to make sure that the company speaks with one brand “voice.” • Leverage scale to save costs and develop a social media policy. • Employees are the best brand ambassadors. Engage them in promoting the company’s image as a good place to work and feature them in the company’s social media. Their personalized KEY POINT presence often establishes the emotional connection that top candidates seek. In today’s talent wars, companies Conclusion which exploit Bersin & Associates sees social marketing tools transforming global the cutting-edge recruiting practices. In today’s talent wars, companies which exploit the potential of social cutting-edge potential of social networking have discovered that they can hire faster and smarter. They have successfully and economically networking have targeted an expansive pool of top talent through collaborative hiring discovered that processes that are enabled by social networking. The exploding they can hire faster popularity of sites, such as LinkedIn, is revolutionizing recruiting – and smarter. allowing companies to expand their searches for top talent around the globe in minutes. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 6114 LA SALLE AVENUE SUITE 417 OAKLAND, CA 94611 (510) 654-8500 INFO@BERSIN.COM WWW.BERSIN.COM Using Social Networks Katherine Jones | Page 14 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO EXPERTUS FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011 THIS MATERIAL IS LICENSED TO LINKEDIN FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY. BERSIN & ASSOCIATES © 2011
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