Who is Tom Laine?

Tom Laine is one of the most experienced Linkedin experts in Europe, and a top-ranked social media recruitment and employer branding trainer, ranked no. 4 in the Top HR Influencers’ list by Rise Global.

Tom’s Linkedin activity has spanned for over 14 years, during which time he has worked for organisations such as Oracle in Denmark as a Nordic Channel Campaign Manager, for Manpower Group building Nordic resource channels, for 3 different recruitment agencies in London, and has founded the first Nordic social recruitment agency (sold to VMP Group in 2011). Tom is also known as the most networked Finnish person in Linkedin.

Since selling his recruitment agency, Tom has trained hundreds of organisations across Europe, Middle East, Asia and North America, including the likes of Manpower, Adecco, Antal, Barona, Nokia, Microsoft, Elektrobit, Atria, Digia, UPM, Re/Max, Louis Vuitton, SEB, ING Bank, Metlife Alico, Gartner, Bell, Mercedes Benz, Ikea, Panda Retail, Velux, BPG Group, and Nada Dairy, to name a few.

On top of his training and keynote activities, Tom has written several books about and around social media, writes guest blogs to e.g. Recruiting Daily, has given speeches at special events such as the TEDx, and is a frequently interviewed specialist by top publications and national news broadcasts.

Here below you can find some pictures along the road during the last few years when Tom has done more International trainings and met some incredible people at extraordinary places.