The recruiter enjoys their role at LinkedIn because they get to travel to campuses around the world, interact with new people, and hire talented candidates to join LinkedIn. They appreciate that the role allows creativity and the ability to try new recruiting strategies without fear of failure. The recruiter finds the work rewarding because they help connect people with career opportunities and make a positive impact.

1. “Like most recruiters, I fell into it. I knew someone who knew someone that was
looking to hire a person to help with Campus Recruiting here at LinkedIn. It really
matched up with my personality and skills, so much, that I’ve been doing it for the
past 4 years. I love what I do because I get to travel to campuses around the world,
interact with new people every time and eventually hire them into LinkedIn. On
Campus Recruiting, you get to be creative and you don’t have to be afraid to fail. If
you want to try something new, whether it’s the internship program or a campus
event – you have that ability to do it!.”
Allen Hom
Campus Recruiter, UNITE

2. Starting my career in Recruiting, I was looking to make a transition into a
completely different role, while at the same time, leveraging core Recruiting
skills of relationship management and organization, and a focus around
getting results.”
Ryan Colthorp
Senior Program Manager

3. Recruiting at LinkedIn is awesome because we are an important part of making sure
that we bring in the best talent to help LinkedIn change the world! I love all aspects
of my Recruiter role here from being able to work on the Best on Planet Recruiting
Team, getting the candidates excited about LinkedIn, and making sure our Hiring
Managers are happy by finding them the best Engineers that exist!
Marisa Blakenship
Technical Recruiter

5. “I started working in Talent Acquisition when I joined LinkedIn as a Recruiting
Coordinator. I was able to provide a Best on Planet candidate experience while
helping develop new practices and processes. My team was very supportive about
my career transformation plan. When I heard about opportunities opening up in HR
Ops, I jumped at the change to sit down with HR leadership. I immediately saw an
alignment to my passion to help people and support world class talent. The role
was perfect as an introduction to HR since I would be able to touch so many
different parts of an employee life cycle. Very shortly after my meeting, I embarked
on my HR journey as an associate early this year. “
Leora Shani
Talent Operations Associate

6. “I enjoy the diversity of my work – analytics, team engagement &
strategy, process improvement, problem solving and mentoring. I
get to leverage different parts of my brain and bring my real self to
work.Every day is different and I often don’t know what will be
coming up next.”
Neha Mandhani
Senior Program Manager

7. “Learning is the process through which each of us grows; hopefully
closer to our best self. I love that I get to help shape that experience
and enable that possibility.”
Bryan Mascioli
Learning Designer

8. “I love being able to help create a Best On Planet experience for all
our candidates. Our team works extremely hard to make sure every
candidate who comes onsite feels welcome. It’s always rewarding to
get notes from the candidates afterwards, giving thanks for making
their experience at LinkedIn [in]credibly special. Being on the
coordination team, you feel that you can still make an impact at a big
company like LinkedIn.”
Erica Mendes
Project Coordinator, Talent Acquisition

10. “Being part of L&D has given me the opportunity to design innovative
learning solutions that may not be possible in other companies. I
work with very talented and passionate team members and partners
who really care about developing others and providing transformative
learning experiences.”
Rajon Tumbokon
Learning Experience Designer

11. “When I first started at LinkedIn, my manager at the time said that I should find a side project to
work on – and that’s how I would be successful at LinkedIn. I was a week in to the job,
overwhelmed supporting the global SMB team, and had no idea what she meant. I had always
supported media for LinkedIn TA initiatives and it became something I loved working on. Fast
forward 1.5 years later (and after partnering with many of our global partners) I saw an
opportunity for LinkedIn to improve overall media utilization and optimization. I learned about the
“LinkedIn on LinkedIn” team and helped optimize their media as a side project for about a year
and a half. Because of my passion for what I was doing and the relationships I had built, when
an opportunity arose to join the TA PMO team working on LinkedIn on LinkedIn, I was able to
pitch what I could contribute which eventually enabled me to join the team full time. I now have
a dream role at LinkedIn – and it all started as a side project.
Jessica Weiss
Global Program Manager, Talent Acquisition

13. “I think the breadth of skillsets and backgrounds is one reason the
L&D team is so amazing. You are constantly learning from those
around you because the team's work experience, talents, etc. elevate
your own thinking, creativity and work output.”
Laura McBride
Manager – L&D

15. “I love to learn! As part of the PMO team, I have the opportunity to work
on various projects and objectives which allow me to work with so many
different teams and approach situations from many different angles and
perspectives! Through such amazing experiences, there is never a dull
moment and I am always learning something new.”
Devanshi Dave
Associate Project Manager

17. “We get to operationalize the vision of our fearless
leaders. We are at the heart of all this positive
change! We make it possible for the company to
scale.” - Joanne Wrenn
Joanne Wren
Senior Manager PMO

20. “All the truly brilliant people on our team who give me the opportunity
to learn and grown everyday. And the sense of humor and FUN we
have with each other...it's contagious! Because I get to play a part in
getting new hires inspired, excited and ready to begin their career
transformation at LinkedIn! Through facilitation and building
relationships I get to set them up for success at an amazing
company! What more could one person want?”
Lauren Hipschman
Global Onboarding

22. “I love being a part of the compensation team because of the impact
we make directly on the employee’s life. We make sure that people
are compensated for what they deserve and to me, that is the most
important thing.”
Alma Kangas
Sr. Compensation Analyst

24. ““I love introducing our new employees to our amazing culture at
LinkedIn through the faciliation of our [in]troduction experience.
The creativity that exists at every level is inspiring within our L&D
team. We all have a passion for learning and it is displayed in
everything we do.”
Jason Weeman
Global Onboarding

26. “LinkedIn L&D consists of an incredibly talented team of learning
professionals who are always willing to coach, collaborate and share.
One of the greatest perks of the job is the opportunity to learn from
my colleagues each day!”
Bridget Taddeo
Program Manager

28. “We’re fun…and really, really, ridiculously good looking” [insert blue
steel here]
Carolyn Kim
Senior Program Manager

29. “Starting in our IN’ternational HQ in Dublin in 2011 it was a case of being thrown in the deep end,
recruiting across eight countries for our rapidly expanding EMEA business. Any free time, of
which there was little, we got to figure out how to scale the business and the TA function that
supported it. Balancing the delivery of new hires with building systems and process allowed me
to discover my passion for taking on projects that enhanced the experience of our hiring
managers and candidates. I was lucky to be able to concentrate on this full time when I moved
to Mountain View to work in our newly formed TA PMO in April 2013 and now dedicate all my
time to enhancing the recruiting experience for the TA team and all our customers. I feel
fortunate to have been supported by LinkedIn and the TA team in transforming my career and
enjoy being encouraged to use this international experience to take a global view on everything
we do!”
Liam Walsh
Global Program Manager, Talent Acquisition

31. “I’ve been a LinkedIn client for 8 years and am excited to be on a new
journey now on the [IN]side. I believe in our TA mission of designing,
building and sharing Best on Planet recruiting. Our team is
collaborating with TA members around the world to actualize this
mission. The newly created Global Talent Acquisition Programs
(GTAP) team within RCS is partnering with the PMO, TAM and TALT
to catapult us forward. Join us on the ride!”
Jeanette Ercila
Senior Manager, Global Talent Acquisition Programs

33. "The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
- Dr. Seuss
I love that I can help people go places!
YeeFong Ng
APAC Lead

34. Being a Recruiter is a gratifying role where I can represent this
amazing, successful company I care about while transforming the
careers of talented people from all over the world! The support I give
to each professional I work with is specific to their lives which also
makes what I do so interesting and exciting! Establishing and building
trusting relationships, celebrating talent gains, learning and growing
are all other elements that continuously keep me motivated and
passionate about recruitment !
Loni Olazaba
Senior Recruiter

36. Recruiting is ordinarily a win/win scenario where one company lands a great new hire
and a candidate lands a great new job. Recruiting for LinkedIn introduces a third degree
relationship with the 300million+ LinkedIn network so now it’s a win/win/win dealio.
There is something intensely rewarding about doing a job where everyone is grateful and
excited with the outcome.
Recruiting for LinkedIn enables me to create great outcomes. Working with a database of
300million+ LinkedIn members I get to think through where the talent is, create heat
maps, reach out to the talent and turn them from prospects into candidates, using my
“influencing skills” to match the right talent to the right interview team and make a
match. Didn’t find a profile you liked for the job you’re recruiting for? Remember that
every 4-6 days there are 1million new members/profiles added…rinse and repeat your
search string.
At the end of the day as a recruiter at LinkedIn we get to make an impact, our work
matters, we change people’s lives, we further career ambitions.
Jeffrey Bank
Senior Recruiter