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Computer Weekly

Microsoft saved thousands of pounds recruiting technical staff through LinkedIn rather than hiring a headhunter. KPMG found its recruits through Second Life.

Social networking has meant that databases of potential job applicants, once the prize possessions of recruitment companies, are now public property.

Microsoft recruiter Declan Fitzgerald used that fact to his advantage when he was asked to find nine workers with niche IT skills to work on a security project.

“Finding nine techies with skills in the rare Assembly and X86 software languages is not that easy and traditional methods would not work,” says Fitzgerald.

By using social networking site LinkedIn he was able to find suitable people and saved about £60,000 in recruitment company fees.

Indian IT supplier HCL claims to have saved £300,000 in recruitment fees in a year, while brewer SAB Miller saved £1.2m in recruitment fees in a year by employing 120 people directly from LinkedIn.

There remains demand for recruitment agencies for traditional roles, but more and more LinkedIn is becoming a great way of finding people particularly for those niche requirements, and can be a way of getting reviews before even meeting them or calling them to say can you do this? You interested?

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