Chris Pham, LinkedIn Jennifer Shappley, LinkedIn By forecasting hiring demand and building a process and organizational muscle to dynamically manage recruiting capacity, LinkedIn’s Talent Acquisition department has been able move from constantly playing catch-up with hiring demand, to getting ahead and dynamically moving resources around to where the need is the highest. In this session, we will provide insight into one of the many ways data-driven recruiting is done at LinkedIn. We will also show how the process and modeling that the Talent Analytics and Operations team has been able to implement has allowed LinkedIn’s recruiting teams to project business demand, right-size themselves accordingly and ultimately save LinkedIn money. Session highlights: How we set up a framework to hold recruiting teams accountable to capacity plan. How LinkedIn got Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, and FP&A to align. How using data to estimate hires within 5% of actual volume, and staffing recruiting teams accordingly, allowed us to give back to the business. Check out the best of Talent Connect: http://bit.ly/2e5ojNe