[softwaredoug]

Do folks in your markets use LinkedIn?

One thought is sure, you save time by saying the candidates are open BUT on LinkedIn recruiters can get all the CV AND personal info. They can know they are real people. They can bulk email 50 interesting looking candidates and get 10 responses from people passively searching and forward those to a hiring manager.

I wonder if you’re optimizing for the real bottleneck? Recruiter time isn’t THAT much of a bottle neck AND they have tools to overcome this problem.

I also suspect recruiters want to use fewer familiar tools, not more tools

I trust you know the space/your problem though almost certainly more than we would. Best of luck!

[Riphyak]

This is a very good point. Actually, the arrival of LinkedIn disrupted the way recruiters worked. Before LinkedIn the core of their job was indeed building the relationship with candidates. LinkedIn provided them with the opportunity to mass-message the candidates - which is more efficient from recruiter's ROI perspective, but also creates a lot of noise and eventually discourages candidates.