Case Study: adidas Group achieves faster time-to-fill and reduced hiring costs with LinkedIn Talent Solutions

adidas Group - Customer Case Study

adidas, a global sporting goods leader with about 40,000 employees worldwide and a third based in Asia Pacific, needed to move from a reactive, agency-heavy hiring model to a shared, proactive recruitment hub for the region. Challenges included inconsistent candidate quality, high agency costs, long time-to-fill, and fragmented employer branding.

adidas implemented LinkedIn Talent Solutions—using Recruiter, Job Slots and targeted InMail—to directly source passive candidates and centralize hiring. The approach cut average time-to-fill from 70 to 52 days, enabled faster hires for hard-to-fill roles (e.g., a senior product marketing hire in ~60 days), reduced agency spend (about HKD1.3M saved on nine hires) and delivered more consistent employment branding.

adidas Group

Jeffery Wong

Manager Talent Acquisition