Linkedin For HR & Recruitment
Author: Frank Mulligan

If you are a fan of Linkedin, and many in China’s HR community are, then you have already amassed a base of potential new recruits or business partners.

Some people have built huge connection bases and the Linked basics for doing this are fairly well known so it’s not much of an accomplishment anymore. Using these techniques will help you increase your raw connection number, but they don’t really do much beyond increasing the number of people you can see.

A more nuanced view of Linkedin requires us to look at the quality of our connections and one new development that might help here is the ability to create Groups. These Groups include company and university alumnis, professional membership groups, conference-related groups and networking groups. You can build a group yourself, and anything that can conceivably unite people can be a Group.

As a potential member, Groups allow you to self-select the people you want to get closer to, and in many cases they require you to have genuine connection with other group members. For example, if you want to join the PriceWatersHouseCoopers alumni you have to have worked for PWC at some time in your career. This is much more useful for recruiting purposes and it clearly raises the quality of your connection base.

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Frank Mulligan is the China Director for Accetis International and the founder of Talent Software, Inc. Frank specializes in Executive Search, Staff and Candidate Assessment & Testing, Staffing Metrics.

Headquartered in Paris, Accetis International is an executive search firm with a network of nine offices in Europe, Asia, and North America.

Talent Software, Inc. is a Shanghai-based HR outsourcing provider which Frank built up using China’s first bilingual ATS and testing solution. He has lived in China for over ten years in both Beijing and Shanghai, Before starting Talent Software, Inc., Frank was the Chief Representative of Norman Broadbent Executive Search in China, 1st Secretary (Commercial for the Irish Embassy in Beijing and Strategic Planning Manager, Siemens, Ltd. China.

Frank operates two blogs and an online TV programme that he hosts. Visit Talent Software Blog and “ERE’s Talent in China” for additional information and expert specialization on all things related to China’s complex business, social and staffing infrastructures.

ERE GLOBAL AMSTERDAM: “China’s War For Talent – How hiring moved from tactical to strategic as HR was forced to watch from sidelines”

Frank Mulligan’s decade of expertise working in China in both Beijing and Shanghai gives him a unique and unparalleled perspective in the fields of Executive Search, Staff and Candidate Assessment & Testing, Staffing Metrics and business development. Moreover, Frank has been at the cutting edge of staffing industry trends, operating two blogs and an online TV programme that he hosts. Over the last two years we have communicated, I have been impressed by his broad knowledge of China’s complex business, social and staffing infrastructures, but I must say, that having seen him present at ERE Global in Amsterdam in Fall, 2007 that I have become one of his biggest fans given his extraordinary ability to captivate an audience with breathtaking depth of information with a sense of style and entertaining demeanor. He is a well rounded educator, not simply a specialist with narrow interests. He has risen to prominence as a Thought Leader because he is trusted, well informed, and above all someone you would be honored to call a friend. I strongly recommend Frank’s services and I encourage him to take his presentation globally to educate a broader spectrum of industries that can benefit from his brilliant speaking ability.

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