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Presentation from the ERE Expo 2011 Fall, presented by Steve Cadigan.

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Becoming an Employer of Choice in a Fiercely Competitive Talent Market

Steve Cadigan, VP of Talent, LinkedIn

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Agenda

§  The New Recruiting Reality §  Growth at LinkedIn §  Rising to the Challenge

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What You’ve Read is True

Tech startups face stiff competition for talent – Reuters The “War” For Top Talent In Silicon Valley – The Wall Street Journal Silicon Valley Hiring Perks: Meals, iPads and a Cubicle for Spot – NYTimes.com

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§  The New Recruiting Reality §  Growth at LinkedIn §  Rising to the Challenge

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120,000,000+ registered members (as of August 4, 2011)

The globally connected professional network

4M+

48M+* 26M+

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10M+

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2M+ 6M+

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*As of June 30, 2011

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Our mission Connect the world’s professionals to make

them more productive and successful

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Our vision Create economic opportunity for every

professional in the world

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How we’ll do it

Connect talent with opportunity at massive scale

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Member Growth in Millions Over 50% of members are now international The image cannot be displayed. Your computer may not have enough memory to open the image, or the image may have been corrupted. Restart your computer, and then open the file again. If the red x still appears, you may have to delete the image and then insert it again.

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LinkedIn Members (Millions)

120M+ *

*as of August 4, 2011

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Staff growth since 2003

Population by Year

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Tenure of current headcount

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Headcount tenure

Over 1/3 of employees have been here less than 1 year

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Incredible Competition for Tech Talent

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HR challenges

§  Competing for the best talent in Silicon Valley –  Intense competition for top technical talent –  Deep pocketed competitors

§  Hyper Growth –  Keeping focused on top talent and quality in recruiting –  Ongoing integration of new staff –  Strain on whole organization to recruit and onboard –  New players, new countries, new policies –  Laying a scalable foundation –  Growing a business while leaders must also focus on:

§  Recruiting, On Boarding, Training – setting team up for success

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Agenda

§  The New Recruiting Reality §  Growth at LinkedIn §  Rising to the Challenge

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Rising to the challenge - Talent

§  Talent is our #1 operating priority as a company –  We review progress regularly

§  Engage the whole company –  Active referral network –  Many hires sourced by hiring managers

§  Clearly communicate our differentiators –  Impact, size, culture, talent, growth opportunity –  Internships

§  “Drinking our own champagne”

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Our Recruiting Solutions

LinkedIn Jobs

LinkedIn Recruiter Talent Direct

Recruitment Ads Career Pages

Talent Acquisition

Brand & Media

Work with us!

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Rising to the challenge - Growth

§  Communication is vital –  Bi-Weekly all-hands meetings (Top Down)

§  Hosted by CEO §  Humor and Transparency §  Where are the elephants?

–  “Company Groups” (Bottoms Up & Across) §  Everyone has a voice §  Issues are addressed quickly §  Self governance

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Rising the the challenge - Culture

§  Everyone is building our culture of transformation §  Living what our products enable: purpose-driven

–  Connecting talent with opportunity §  Work space IS important §  Rare and special opportunity

–  InDays and Hack Days –  Speaker Series –  Celebrations –  Conference room names, food choices, Tshirts….

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InDay – key part of our culture §  Time to think!

§  Think about new ideas, strategies, solutions, ways to tackle existing problems

§  Teamwork §  Form closer relationships across the company

§  Making this part of who we are §  The spirit of “Hack days” §  Innovation, creativity, collaboration §  Across teams and departments §  Includes product and technical innovation, but broader and applicable

to all areas of expertise

§  Several Options §  My InDay §  InDay Double Down §  Step back and catch up – recharge §  Speakers & themes

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Intern Hack Day

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InDay &TechTalk Speakers

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Celebrate Often

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Celebrate Often

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Celebrate Often

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LinkedIn Career Page

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Engineering Microsite

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Employee Blog Posts

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Lessons Learned

§  Access to Sr. Leadership is key §  People want their voices heard

–  Loudly in some cases §  Let your staff build the culture

–  “live the culture you want” §  Resist the inertia to create levels §  Bi-weekly reminders of priorities and measuring

results keeps focus

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Enter  to  Win  a  Kindle  Update Your LinkedIn Profile Status with #LinkedInatERE

Can’t access the web from your phone? No worries – leave a business card with a LinkedIn rep on your way out and we’ll be happy to include you in the drawing.

Winner will be notified on LinkedIn via InMail.

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