Online European business network XING has launched its recruiter membership, with a range of new features specifically designed to make the search for new employees much more efficient. The new recruiter membership enables users to benefit from powerful new search filters optimized especially for recruitment purposes, such as “career level”, “professional experience”, “company size” and “industry” – thus limiting search results to the desired number of best-matching profiles.

HR professionals and recruiters will be able to access an overview of up to 1,000 potential candidates for a job vacancy in a matter of seconds.

Recruiter membership also provides enhanced contact management capabilities. Up to 50 search alerts can be saved at any one time, producing automatic search results whenever a suitable prospective applicant registers on XING or whenever an existing member updates their profile to match a recruiter’s specific search criteria.

Qualified experts and managers can also now state in their XING profiles that they are “interested in career opportunities”, and have the option of sharing this information with recruiters.

Potential candidates can be bookmarked too, allowing recruiters to add personal notes to individual members and contact them directly via this filtered bookmark overview. Additionally, recruiter membership enables users to send up to 50 XING messages per day to members who are not yet part of their personal network.

“By launching our new recruiter membership, we’re now offering a professional e-recruitment solution that HR professionals can use for recruiting and their daily work. In the near future, we will also be introducing attractive fixed-price product packages for our XING Jobs section. With this range of features, we’re the perfect partner for professional e-recruiting,”  says Dr Stefan Gross-Selbeck, chief executive of XING AG.