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11 Jul

Recruiting with LinkedIn: How to Find Elite Salespeople

Frédéric Lucas

Do you know how to recruit a salesperson with LinkedIn? LinkedIn is an essential sales recruitment tool, but you have to understand how to use it. The network has evolved a lot in recent years. It refined its functionality to support a proactive approach strategy and is an excellent way to identify candidates. Indeed, using filters allows you to improve your search results. It's, therefore, possible to obtain the list of employees within a specific company or those of related persons according to different degrees of connection.

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