A new report from recruiting software company Bullhorn found that while most people use Facebook to look for a new job, professional networking website LinkedIn and micro-blogging website Twitter are much better starting points for those in search of their next career.
 
Bullhorn, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, calls itself the “Global Leader in Online Recruiting Software”, using its recruiting software to manage over 150,000 job placements every month. Bullhorn analyzed the …

Professional networking website LinkedIn on Friday announced its fourth quarter financial results, boosting stock prices by 18 percent to $89.96 in trading with news that revenue increased by a whopping 105 percent.
 
The jump in LinkedIn’s stock price was the highest since the company began selling shares for $83 a pop on the New York Stock Exchange last May under the ticker symbol “LNKD”. LinkedIn fourth quarter revenues surged to $167.7 million, up from $81.7 million in 2010, in …

BG Group employee John Flexman created his LinkedIn profile last year, uploaded his CV, ticked the “interested in career opportunities” checkbox, and soon after was told by his manager to remove his cv, accused of using social media inappropriately and ordered to attend a disciplinary meeting.
 
Thirty-four year old Flexman, who was in charge of human resources at BG Group, also stated on his LinkedIn profile that one of his accomplishments was reducing attrition at the gas exploration …

Professional social networking website LinkedIn, which staged its IPO in June of this year, opened its first office in Latin America, in São Paolo, Brazil. LinkedIn’s opening of its  São Paolo office is part of broader efforts to expand internationally. The company started operations in Japan last month and in May launched its Asia headquarters in Singapore.
 
 
Osvaldo Barbosa de Oliveira, a former Microsoft executive who worked for the American multinational for 21 years, was …

Professional social networking website LinkedIn, which launched in 2003 and staged its very successful IPO in late May of this year, has lately been seeing is share price and valuation rising.
 
The LNKD initial share price, when it debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in
May, was $45 with more than 4.8 million shares sold. But on the first day of trading, shares sold for as high as $122.69, then finished the day out at $94.25, 109 percent higher than the opening share …

Almost six months after he visited Facebook, U.S. president Barack Obama is holding his first town hall meeting a the headquarters of professional and social networking website LinkedIn in Mountain View California on Monday.

The president will speak at the Computer History Museum, located near LinkedIn HQ. The White House announced the LinkedIn visit by the President in a posting on LinkedIn on Tuesday: “During the Town Hall, the President will answer questions about job creation and the …

Professional networking website LinkedIn has announced a partnership with Taleo, the biggest provider of job applicant tracking systems in the United States, to let job seekers use their LinkedIn data to automatically fill in routine biographical and work history information.
 

LinkedIn announces partnership with Taleo

Taleo, according to human resources consulting firm Bersin & Associates, has captured 26 percent of market share in the applicant tracking systems sector, based on …

Sonar, an iPhone app launched in May that alerts users to which of their Facebook, Foursquare friends are logged into the same places, has added data from LinkedIn.
 

Sonar app adds LinkedIn data

The addition may sharply increase the use of the Sonar app because previously, for a friend to show up, they were required to ‘check-in’ at Facebook places or FourSquare locations, although they were not required to use Sonar for this to work. However surveys show only 17 percent of users …

LinkedIn senior data scientist Monica Rogati conducted a study using the website’s voluminous set of user data in order to answer the question: What factors are important in the development of an entrepreneur?
 

Geography most significant factor for entrepreneurs

Rogati, in her blog about the study titled “Sequencing the Startup DNA on LinkedIn”, explained she set out to use the profiles of thousands of startup founders to find out how entrepreneurs are different from other people, …

Professional networking website LinkedIn has been steadily moving towards becoming the primary place on the internet for professionals to meet, network, and exchange information, in large part because of the power of LinkedIn groups.
 

IT groups on LinkedIn

Taking part in LinkedIn groups, which are created based on shared interests, and work experience, is a productive and time effective way to keep up with industry trends, make new contacts, and promote yourself as a leader in your …