Experts Connection™ for Recruiters connects you, the hiring professional, with experts in all phases of recruitment at the $100K+ level. Topics will be presented for timely practical application (rather than theoretical discussions), offering you the ability to implement the ideas as soon as you hang up the phone. The subject matter is designed for both corporate hiring professionals as well as independent recruiters. Topics will include a wide variety of timely issues relating to the employment of managers and executives across all disciplines and industries. The teleseminars are formatted to include your questions submitted at the time of registration as well as during the presentation.

Guest Speaker: James Durbin, Headhunter specializing in Social Media and Social Business Strategies.

Class Description: Participate in a step-by-step instruction from the “Social Media Headhunter” on new strategies for using LinkedIn to find and hire candidates for your company or client. Jim Durbin will demonstrate a point by point walk through, targeted for corporate and executive recruiters.

LinkedIn is an effective tool for building and maintaining a close network of referrers for employment, but how does that help you hire people faster and with more quality? In an age where the email and voicemail are being replaced with Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn stands out as the professional social network at the center of your recruiting strategy.

LinkedIn remains the top business social network in the world, hosting more than 100 million profiles, including executives from every Fortune 500 company. Growing from its initial recruiting use as an updated database, LinkedIn is now the dominant force in social media recruiting.

In this 90 minute teleseminar you will learn:

• Updated strategies for 2011 on building a network that values hires and quality referrals.
• Powerful new tools developed in the LinkedIn Labs.
• 3 ways to craft messages that generate responses.
• Exciting new mobile and location based service techniques (Foursquare and Facebook places).
• New search and profile optimization techniques to boost your personal profile.
• The keys to marketing using this powerful social media application.

About the Speaker:

Jim Durbin is a headhunter specializing in social media and co-founder of Social Media Talent, a social staffing firm. As a blogger and business owner, Jim is a frequent and valued speaker on such topics as online employment, recruiting blogs and using social networks in the hiring process. Prior to starting his first social media company in 2006, Jim was a top performer as an Account Executive for national staffing firms. Jim is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and currently lives in Dallas.