LinkedIn Cleans Up Its Developer Platform. LinkedIn unloads upgraded API to expand sharing power. Why Wall Street Likes LinkedIn More Than Facebook. LinkedIn redesign proves it wants to be more like Facebook. LinkedIn takes interest in Pinterest with 'LinkedIn Today' page. How Recruiters Use LinkedIn. 6 Things on Your LinkedIn Profile That Shouldn't Be on Your Resume. Gerrit Hall is the CEO and co-founder of RezScore, a free web application that reads, analyzes and grades resumes instantly.
Connect with Gerrit and RezScore on Facebook and Twitter. Many people think their LinkedIn profiles and their resumes are interchangeable, but you should not send your entire LinkedIn profile into a potential employer and expect to land an interview. While there is the LinkedIn Resume Builder, all that does is reformat your existing profile into a resume — it's not tailored enough to show the value you could bring to the specific job you’re applying for. Sure, LinkedIn and your resume have a lot in common. They both include your professional summary, experience, skills, contact information, education and important links. 1. That job you held in high school is likely not applicable to your career path five years post-graduation, so don’t include it on your resume. The 8 Things You Do Wrong On LinkedIn. LinkedIn Releases How-To Guide in Japan. 9 Ways to Add LinkedIn to Your Company Website. Brian Honigman is a social media account manager at LunaMetrics, a Google Analytics certified partner that also specializes in social media, search engine optimization, and PPC.
Follow him at @Brian_Honigman and read his blog at BrianHonigman.com. Adding LinkedIn's social features to your company website is a great way to tap into both a large-scale recruitment platform and a targeted network of business contacts. Don't believe it? Well, according to a study conducted by Bullhorn, a web-based software and services firm, LinkedIn is the leading social network for job recruiting. Another study conducted by HubSpot, an inbound marketing company, showed that LinkedIn is 277% more effective at generating leads than Facebook and Twitter.
If you're ready to get started, here are nine key plugins and examples. How To Empower Yourself on The New LinkedIn. LinkedIn: Mobile growing fast in everything but revenue. LinkedIn reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat the street and showed strong growth in members, unique visits and page views from its users.
But one key metric that stood out is how many users are signing on from their smartphones and tablets, as mobile usage is the fastest-growing part of its business. Mobile now accounts for 15 percent of all visits to LinkedIn, CEO Jeff Weiner told investors and analysts on the fourth-quarter earnings call. That is up from 9 percent of traffic that mobile accounted for about halfway through 2011. Growth is coming in part from improved mobile applications and more customer adoption from those products. One thing that isn’t growing tremendously in mobile is revenue, however. Of course, LinkedIn isn’t the only social network that has yet to monetize its mobile apps. Is LinkedIn's Worst Nightmare a Facebook Friend? Social Media Won't Transform Corporate Recruiting Unless It Grows Up. LinkedIn and Google Help U.S. Veterans Find Work and Each Other. As of October 2011, 850,000 U.S. veterans were unemployed.
The jobless rate for post-9/11 vets hit 12.1 percent. With an estimated one million service members scheduled to leave the military between 2011 and 2016, it was high time for President Obama to find new ways to help vets find civilian jobs. In addition to launching a government resource on WhiteHouse.gov, Obama teamed up with LinkedIn and Google to offer additional resources for veterans. LinkedIn now tags job postings that might be best for veterans, and Google offers additional tools for the building the military veteran community online. Yesterday, LinkedIn launched a veterans microsite that includes tips, tools and information to help vets find job opportunities. Today, Google launched Google for Veterans and Families, which was created by veterans who work at Google, and their families. LinkedIn Users Grow by 60%, Premium Subscriptions Double.
Today LinkedIn shared its Q3 financials in its second-ever earnings statement as a public company.
Its user base has increased by over 60% this year, and unique visitors grew substantially as well. Revenue has more than doubled. For the first time, hiring solutions comprised more than half of LinkedIn's quarterly revenue. That became the company's biggest source of revenue in Q1 2010. LinkedIn appears to have found a unique position as a place for jobs and and employees to find each other and is clearly pushing to cement that role. The earnings overview breaks down between premium subscriptions, marketing solutions and hiring solutions. The number of members paying for premium subscriptions doubled in the last year, growing at a faster rate than other subscriptions.