I hope they don’t try to charge ordinary people, but if the service is popular, I would not be shocked. They likely will be charging employers phone credits instead of or in addition to existing fees. LinkedIn’s move to the phone is also a departure from the InMail currency system. Quiet chatter of businesses divesting their LinkedIn spending is now a loud din. Yet the problem persists for businesses when highly qualified people refuse to check their InMails. Good sourcers and recruiter came to the rescue with highly targeted InMails or went around LinkedIn by researching and sending emails instead. LinkedIn claimed mass messaging was the sole reason many companies were seeing a drop in response rates. Sadly, for the last few years, we have seen LinkedIn release restriction after restriction to InMail use all to reduce pad their stats. It was easy to scale by charging companies to pool the currency with variant platforms for sales and recruitment.īefore we all go bashing InMails, I have hired many people where the initial outreach was an InMail. A way to charge people who are not connected, and a way for them to communicate without actually sharing private contact information. InMails have been their currency since the beginning. In my opinion, this is not just a new feature. Craigslist uses a variation where you can make a fake email or phone number as part of your advertisement. While LinkedIn is known for dripping features out and early beta tests for some customers, we know this has not been released because they need to begin issuing phone numbers to people in advance for the feature to work. ![]() Then, in the search results click “Unlock” next to “Phone” to access a temporary number assigned by LinkedIn.” To filter for candidates who’re open to hearing from you by phone, select “Has phone numbers” under “Phone number unlock” to the left of your search results. Until they take this down you see for yourself from this link:Ĭontact candidates by phone. Playing with LinkedIn today I stumbled on a helpful link to a feature that does not currently exist. ![]() ![]() This article is part of a series called Editor's Pick.
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