“The traditional personnel consultant lived off his personal network. Those times are over. We ourselves use LinkedIn for research, we maintain a professional business relationship with the network. Today we can identify about 80 percent of the candidates who are suitable for a position via a platform like LinkedIn. This means that the mere identification of candidates is no longer one of our primary competitive advantages.”
– Michael Ensser, Germany head of Egon Zehnder (executive search firm) on the question of why a supervisory board chairman should still call him in times of Xing and LinkedIn – in Handelsblatt, 09.11.2017, No. 216
