Want a gold star for putting your resume online? We’ve got one for you. Identified.com rewards professional networking with points, making your job search almost as numbers-driven as the college application process.
Bloomberg is reporting that Reid Hoffman, the visionary CEO of LinkedIn, is selling some of his Facebook stock that he had purchased as an early investor in the social network. It only represents a minority of his overall share in the company, and he claims it is part of a “general diversification strategy.” This makes sense, but it does raise the question about whether Facebook will actually maintain its current valuation of nearly $100 billion.
LinkedIn shares rose $5.94 or 6.5% yesterday to $97.78 after a Goldman Sachs analyst downgraded the stock from buy to neutral. LinkedIn had just dipped below $90 on March 20th on a down day for the market, and many pundits expected a sharp buyback after the dip. Investors hadn’t expected Analyst Heath Terry to explain that LinkedIn had a “high perceived value” with recruiters and that its Corporate Hiring Solution product had large growth potential.
Launched in August 2010, BranchOut connects employers and professionals through one of the Internet’s most personal networks: Facebook. Many people recoiled at the idea of keeping their resumes so close to their nightlife and baby pictures, but when I got an invitation from a friend this morning, I was curious.
Everyone wishes a head hunter would call them the next time a job opens up at their favorite company, but most of us just have to be in the right place at the right time. Today LinkedIn has announced a “follow company” button that lets you stalk your dream employer from the comfort of your LinkedIn profile.
That crackling you hear is the sound of thousands of keyboards firing at once as social media users from around the world incessantly ramble, connect and share. This is today’s web world, and it’s happening minute by minute. That’s why Social Jumpstart put together a great infographic showing just how much happens per minute on the social web.
If you’ve been on LinkedIn lately, you might have noticed that you can add keywords that describe your skills and expertise to your profile. It’s a great way to help prospective employers find your name in the search results, especially when your job title doesn’t fully capture your essence. Here are some of the social media-related skills that have taken off in the last year:
On today’s Morning Media Menu (MP3 link), I joined GalleyCat editor Jason Boog to talk about how LinkedIn’s latest acquisition will change the social network.
When Twitter and LinkedIn were hitting their first wave of buzz, waves of critics surfaced to let everyone know it was ‘too little, too late’ — social was already done by Facebook and better. That juvenile analysis has given way to the realization that social is not just a single stream, but rather a rushing river of which there will be several branches. One of those branches is the professional social space, of which LinkedIn is king.
LinkedIn has acquired the San Francisco-based company Rapportive, a social enhancement for Gmail, for a reported $15 million.
