{"id":15078,"date":"2019-05-14T14:37:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/linkedin-integrates-and-updates-jobs-and-hiring-platforms-hits-20m-job-postings.html"},"modified":"2019-05-14T14:37:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:37:21","slug":"linkedin-integrates-and-updates-jobs-and-hiring-platforms-hits-20m-job-postings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/linkedin-integrates-and-updates-jobs-and-hiring-platforms-hits-20m-job-postings.html","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn integrates and updates jobs and hiring platforms, hits 20M job postings"},"content":{"rendered":"

LinkedIn, <\/a> the social networking platform for the working world that\u2019s now owned by Microsoft, has leveraged its role as a repository for people\u2019s work profiles into making itself a job hunting and recruitment powerhouse.<\/p>\n

The company today has amassed more than 20 million job listings \u2014 up from a mere 300,000 \u00a0five years ago \u2014 and sees its 600 million users collectively apply to jobs 25 million times per week. That activity also translates to big business: paid subscriptions specifically aimed at recruiters, paid tiers for average users who want to have more access to contacting people for jobs, job ads and more all contribute to LinkedIn\u2019s bottom line, a business that is projected to hit $6.4 billion in revenues for 2019, growing 27 percent in the last quarter.<\/p>\n

Now, LinkedIn is stepping up a gear in the operation. After a two-year effort, LinkedIn is today announcing that it has finally integrated its jobs and hiring efforts and announcing a raft of new features for both.<\/p>\n

On the jobs front, they include instant job alerts, a redesign of the Jobs home page, and more salary insights available to all users (including free users), with skills assessments coming soon.<\/p>\n

On the recruitment front, LinkedIn Jobs, Recruiter, and Pipeline Builder are all coming together to create a more seamless way to manage how you post ads, source candidates and other leads and ultimately \u00a0interact with them in the process of hiring them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will mean higher quality candiates, better jobs and a better fit,\u201d VP of product John Jersin said in an interview. When asked why it took so long to integrate these tools \u2014 and why the process didn\u2019t happen five years ago, for example, he answered that it was more of a consequence of how expectations have evolved as tech has evolved to question some of the silos that are incumbent to how we do business.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u00a0designed these systems in a way that worked well, but no one foresaw what we needed,\u201d he said. \u201cAdvancements in AI have driven the strategy, and integrating all this means we can all learn better from each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new features that LinkedIn is bringing to jobseekers are responses to how our communications have evolved with the rise of the smartphone. It notes that jobseekers who respond to ads faster are more likely \u00a0to get the job, so now when a job gets posted that meet your search criteria, you can get a ping within minutes of the posting. Meanwhile, the redesign of the Jobs homepage is more mobile friendly, with added search features that take into account how you navigate on handheld devices.<\/p>\n

The skill assessments, meanwhile, seems to me to be a direct response to the many new innovations we\u2019ve seen among e-learning and recruitment startups, where companies like Coursera<\/a> and Triplebyte<\/a> are offering more tools to people to figure out where the best fit might be for their skills in the working world. LinkedIn notes that these can both be used by individuals to verify their skills \u2014 tackling a perennial problem with people putting empty claims on their resumes \u2014 and also recruiters to source people for jobs.<\/p>\n

Important steps for the company, but there remain a lot of opportunities for smaller and newer upstarts to take bites out of LinkedIn\u2019s business in areas where it is still being slow to develop.<\/p>\n

For example, we\u2019ve seen the emergence of interesting, more targeted recruitment startups that focus on, say, recruiting with racial diversity in mind (as in the case of Handshake<\/a>) or focusing on, say, women returning to work after having children (as in the case of the Mom Project<\/a>). While LinkedIn has made some baby steps<\/a> (no pun intended) in this area, there is still a ways to go, opening the door to others to come in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a challenging and multifaceted problem,\u201d admitted Jersin, \u201cbut LinkedIn is committed to trying to solve it.\u201d He said the company has quietly started to work on ways of picking up more information that \u201ccould be more useful\u201d in addressing questions like these. \u201cO<\/span>ne thing that is important is a sense of trust,\u201d he noted as one of the challenges that needs to be tackled online. \u201cI think we are very lucky to be one of the few companies out there that can say that we would use this information responsibly, in the interests of jobseeker.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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