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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Do you want to merge 2 positions into one but afraid to loose the recommendations? Or perhaps you want re-assign a recommendation that is accidently assigned to the wrong position? The good news is that it is possible to do this. What you’ll need to do is (temporarily) remove the position associated with the recommedation. […]
With LinkedIn Jobs you can look for jobs on LinkedIn, and view instantly who in your network can introduce you for a position. This way LinkedIn supports both the jobseeker and the employer in bringing together supply and demand. The results contain only public job postings, paid for by recruiters on LinkedIn. But if this […]
Recruiters and Hiring Managers have a few options for advertising jobs on the LinkedIn network: Using status updates. Your direct connections will see this update on their homepage. Post jobs in LinkedIn groups you are member of. Promote jobs via the LinkedIn profile i.e. write in your profile headline or summary that you are looking […]
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Are you curious when you created your LinkedIn profile? Via LinkedIn Settings you can view the date in the top right corner: Did you also know that when you view your, or someone elses, profile you can see the member counter in the URL? In my case the URL to my profile is http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=254015. This […]
LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, today announced two million members in the Netherlands, putting the total of Dutch professionals now on the site at more than 50%. The Netherlands is the network’s most engaged market worldwide including more than 32.000 Dutch LinkedIn Groups. By joining groups, Dutch professionals are participating in interesting discussions, gaining […]
The outcome of the third-annual social recruiting survey from Jobvite, the findings underscore the many reasons job seekers need to incorporate online social networking into their job searches. Not surprisingly, LinkedIn is the most widely used social recruiting channel amongst HR / Recruiters with a 78% score. Companies who are actively recruiting in 2010 use […]