Case Study: The Big Search achieves a 230% increase in client hires and cuts time-to-interview to 13 days with LinkedIn Talent Solutions

How The Big Search used LinkedIn Talent Insights to identify talent pools and reduce time to hire

The Big Search (formerly Tomato Talent) is a fast‑growing IT recruitment firm with offices across the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Macedonia and Hungary. Facing a competitive global market, the company needed to identify relevant talent pools and better understand skills availability but wasn’t fully leveraging LinkedIn’s analytics tools to inform its strategy.

By adopting LinkedIn Talent Insights and LinkedIn learning, The Big Search built a data‑driven sourcing approach—producing 3,000 reports in two years—to pinpoint talent pockets, influence client expectations and target higher‑quality candidates. The result: client hires rose 230%, time to interview placed candidates fell from 37 to 13 days, and the firm doubled hires even as skilled applicants declined, demonstrating faster, more effective recruitment.

The Big Search

Ceci Dimitrieska

Head of Research