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Worlds Largest Social Networking Sites (2011)

Looking for the current highest traffic social networks? Check out this infographic with 29 very active social networks that have at least one million visitors per day. Of course Facebook dominates the list. Interestingly, if you combine all the daily visitors for the other 28 social networks on this list you end up with two-thirds […]

See who’s viewing your LinkedIn profile with Profile Stats

The ‘Who’s viewed my profile‘ page is probably one of the most visited pages on LinkedIn as a lot of people are checking this. In fact, I know some people who check this page daily! For paid members LinkedIn provides more statistics around this topic. Not only can you see more history information but also: […]

LinkedIn passes 100 million members [INFOGRAPHIC]

Today, after almost 8 years since it start, LinkedIn.com reached a huge milestone by passing 100 million registered members. The data team at LinkedIn compiled some fun and interesting facts together. Check out this infographic:

Where do employers and job candidates meet?

CareerXroads Finds Out in Annual Source of Hires Study CareerXroads releases its 10th Annual Sources of Hire (SOH) Study – a snapshot of how large, highly-competitive, high-profile firms find their employees. Tracking and monitoring the sources of actual hires tells companies where to dedicate their hiring resources and tells job seekers where to direct their […]

Smart searching for companies on LinkedIn

Did you know that LinkedIn has extensive search capabilities for companies, much like when searching for people? The video below gives you an impression of what is possible and gives some useful tips, like search for products instead of company names. Use it to identify your personal labor market and reach out to interesting companies. […]

New LinkedIn account settings

LinkedIn is rolling out a simplified LinkedIn Account and Settings dashboard to help you navigate and find the right settings faster. This is how it will look like:  So what’s new? Top section highlighting important information about you and your LinkedIn account Bottom section organising settings into 4 tabs to reduce vertical scrolling and updated […]

How does your LinkedIn network looks like? Visualise it!

Looking for a better understanding of the relationships between your LinkedIn network? How they relate to each other? Be able to identify the connectors between your professional networks? Would your connections form clusters or groups? LinkedIn introduces a new product from their labs; InMaps. It visualises your network in a map which is color-coded to […]

Talent Management Tools Corporate Recruiters Can Leverage

If you’re a corporate recruiter, you know that some of your best prospective candidates for those open requisitions are already in the building – so to speak. The trick is in finding them. Unless employees proactively apply for the job (and depending on your company this could be unlikely), how do you know who might […]

How To Use Advanced Twitter Search To Find A Job

If you are wondering how to search for jobs on Twitter, the largest job board in the world according to some people, here’s a great instruction video from Mashable. It shows you how to use the advanced Twitter search to find a job. What are you best tips and tricks to find people for jobs? […]