UK Recruiter LinkedIn Group - helping recruiters to connect

I pinched a fab idea from Dave Mendoza (with his permission!) to help members of the UK Recruiter LinkedIn group (which it's of course free to join) develop their networks. 

Every few weeks I'll be sending an email to all the group members suggesting 10 people they should connect with on LinkedIn. 

My Top 10 Contacts for the 7th April are:
Matt Alder, Barkers, Matt.Alder@barkers.co.uk
David Hay, Estrelas Resourcing, dhay@estrelas.co.uk
Simon Benford, Remedy HCMS simon@remedyhcms.com
Matt Jessop, AIRS, mjessop@airscorp.com
Don Leslie, Beament Leslie Thomas, DFL@blt.co.uk
Alastair Cartright, Enhance Media, alastair@enhancemedia.co.uk
Jon Holden, Mr Ted, j.holden@mrted.com
Bruce Lewin, Four Groups, bruce.lewin@fourgroups.com               
Dan Atkinson, Accite, dan@accite.co.uk
Matthew Dallisson, Adfocus, matt.dallisson@adfocus.co.uk

If you want to connect with these you should log-in to LinkedIn. Click the green button, "Add Connections" located on the lower left sidebar menu of your homepage. This list is not in any particular order - ALL of these contacts are valuable!

Following Dave's formula please could you say I sent you (Louise Triance or just Louise at ukrecruiter) when you request the connection. Again, as with Dave's top 10 the criteria for selection is people "I personally know and admire and/or people who have a verifiable impact on our industry".

I have had at least a dozen emails from people saying how pleased they are that I'm bringing this to the UK - which is real heart-warming stuff.  However, I've had a couple from people saying this isn't how they like to use LinkedIn.  I know some LinkedIn users only see value in networks where they actually know everyone.  However, my email is aimed at "open networkers" who believe that any connection is a good connection.  I know I have achieved business benefit from the size and strength of my network.  Also (obviously) the "top 10" will only be people from whom I have permission to feature them. 

So, if you want to benefit from a large, UK recruitment orientated network join our LinkedIn group and watch out for my "top 10 networkers" emails.  If you want to be "featured" and you fulfil the criteria drop me a note - so far I've heard that some of the guys featured this week have had nearly 100 requests to connect!

PS, If you are looking contacts from the States link up with:
Dave Mendoza, ldavemendoza@gmail.com
Shally Steckerl, shally@jobmachine.net
Glenn Gutmacher, glenn@recruiting-online.com
If you want to join the Six Degrees group click here (please give my name as the referral source when joining).
Another site Dave recommends is RecruitingBlogs.com (again, please give my name as the referral source when joining).

Comments

[Marc Freedman]

Louise,

Congratulations on setting up a LinkedIn group!

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Best NetWORKing,
Marc

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