Widgets are basic visual building blocks which, combined in an application, hold all the data processed by the application and the available interactions on this data. small software programs or code that can be integrated into websites or blogs (source: Wikipedia]. LinkedIn offers such a plugin, in javascript code, which can be used to display a short personal profile when you click on the IN-logo:
What are the current hot topics in Recruitment? What’s being discussed by HR Managers and Recruitment Consultants? We’ve made a selection from the most popular discussions within the LinkedIn group Recruitment Consultants and Staffing Professionals.… Now on LinkedIn: the most discussed recruitment topics
The Referral Engine from LinkedIn will be available end of 2011 and promises to ‘Unlock the Power of Your Employees’ Networks. It was first announced on 3rd of November 2010 and is solution that has been developed in partnership with Accenture to pilot the product and get the final details right. A few more details are available now.
Referral Engine taps into the power of the world’s largest professional network by:
– Recommending the best candidates for open jobs. A powerful algorithm recommends the best candidates by looking at all your employees’ contacts through the lens of your open jobs. Employees then apply their own judgment to refer only the best of the best.
– Simplifying the referral process. Recommendations are delivered to employees via email or the LinkedIn homepage, and they can contact a candidate or make a referral in just a few clicks.
– Keeping referrals top-of-mind. Periodic reminders with specific suggestions make sure employees are thinking about referrals consistently.LinkedIn Referral Engine
It’s no secret that LinkedIn is developing more Recruitment and Talent Management solutions to strenghten their portfolio in this important, revenue making, market. One company that’s making use of this is Korn/Ferry, who developed a leadership assessment tool which is now available if you have a LinkedIn profile. You can take a free assessment and discover your Top 5 Leadership Characteristics in about 10 minutes in 3 easy steps:
The result is a summary and 12-page report of your 5 strongest Leadership Characteristics, blind spots (characteristics that you overestimate), Hidden strengths (characteristics that you underestimate) and potential problem areas.
Dutch people are curious by nature. There is not a country in the world that checks so often the LinkedIn functionality “Who’s viewed my profile” (this is a fact). I even know users who check… LinkedIn tip: Who’s viewed your profile?
Lately I noticed a fast growing trend that companies are creating personal (user) profiles on LinkedIn and start connecting with people and joining groups. As an owner of a large Recruiter group on LinkedIn, Recruitment Consultants with over 64.000 members, I’ m getting 100+ requests per day to join. More and more of these requests are from companies (like NAME .COM) and not from a natural person. Last year I saw 1 out of 200+ requests like that, today it’s approximately 1 out of 50!
But don’t that. It’s a bad idea. I understand that you are trying to build a network around your company but this is not the way. First of all, LinkedIn is a PERSONAL and SOCIAL network and its members expect to connect with real people. People want to connect with people. For this reason it’s not allowed by LinkedIn to “Create a user profile for anyone other than a natural person” (see 10.B.5 of the User Agreement). So all the effort you are putting into it now is a waste of time.Bad Idea: Companies creating Personal Profiles on LinkedIn
If you are an user of the professional LinkedIn Recruiter solutions you’ll notice some improvements when posting jobs. I like thefact that it’s now easier to post jobs with a new one-page flow including rich-text formatting. Next step is sharing them to your LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter networks, LinkedIn Groups, or individuals with just a few clicks. These (paid) jobs get premium placement in LinkedIn Groups.
But the biggest improvement is probably Who’s Viewed This Job. You can now measure how often your job has been viewed, applied to, searched for, and shared with others. Each metric includes an anonymized list of viewers and detailed data to help you understand the companies, job functions and locations of the professionals interacting with your jobs.
Today more details about the LinkedIn initial public offering (IPO) have been announced. LinkedIn Corporation plan to offer 7.84 million shares for between $32 and $35 in its initial public offering, valuing the company around $3 billion. In the prospectus some interesting facts and figures are included about the revenue streams in 2010 and 2011:
Hyves Maintains Position as Top Social Networking Site in the Netherlands Despite Facebook’s Rapid Advances
ComScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of social networking usage in the Netherlands. The study reveals that the Dutch social networking market continues to grow strongly as sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin extend their respective footprints in the market.
“The social networking market in the Netherlands is really quite unique and full of interesting storylines,” said Mike Read, svp and managing director of comScore Europe. “It is one of the few markets remaining where a local social networking player [Hyves] continues to lead Facebook, but that lead is becoming increasingly tenuous. Another interesting facet to this market isThe Netherlands Ranks #1 Worldwide in Penetration for Twitter and Linkedin
A complete list with 243 countries that LinkedIn is using, including the country codes and the URL to identify these profiles.