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Diversity among top trend in recruiting industry in 2018, says LinkedIn

Soft skills assessment turns out to be the most useful interviewing innovations

LinkedIn focuses on upskilling blue-collar workers

Professional networking firm LinkedIn has seen "extremely healthy" growth in India and is now working towards bringing blue-collar jobs onto its platform to further expand its offerings here, its co-founder Allen Blue today said. LinkedIn, which has over 500 million members, counts India as its second largest user base with over 42 million users. The platform allows employers and job-seekers to connect with each other. LinkedIn today announced its partnership with IL&FS Skills Development Corporation Ltd (IL&FS Skills) to help upskill and improve the the employability of blue-collar workers and job-seekers in the country. "The growth in India is tremendous and the way we measure our success, the growth in India is extremely healthy. Moving into the blue-collar space is something we know we need to do to be successful here in India," Blue told PTI. He explained that India has employers of various sizes, right from global companies to small and medium enterprises .

Sebi questions LinkedIn about breach of private placement norms in funding

LinkedIn has said that it is not involved in any securities markets-related activities

Job hopping? LinkedIn lets you know who saw your profile, and how often

Members can use the feature to see which firms are interested in them as prospective employees

Flipkart named most sought after employer in LinkedIn survey

Flipkart has been named the top employer followed by Amazon and KPMG India in the second and third place respectively, according to a list compiled by internet professional network LinkedIn. Others in the top 10 of LinkedIn India's most sought- after employers list include One97 Communications at the fourth place, Ola (5th), HCL Technologies (6th), Adobe (7th), Alphabet (8th), OYO Rooms (9th) and Reliance Industries at the 10th place. The list of 25 top companies in India also saw over 30 per cent of new entrants, namely One97 Communications, Tech Mahindra (14th), Swiggy (15th), IDFC Bank (17th), Vodafone (20th), Grofers (22nd), McKinsey & Company (24th) and Oracle (25th). Among the companies showing significant improvement in the list include Ola from last year's 10th rank to 5th this year, OYO Rooms from 16th to 9th, Reliance Industries from 23rd to 10th, and Cisco from 24th to 16th. From leading tech multinationals to startups, 13 homegrown companies found place in the ...

LinkedIn skills you didn't think you needed

'Round tables','hugs', 'cheese': Pranksters bomb co-workers' profiles by endorsing fake skills

LinkedIn brings Priyanka as brand influencer

The professional networking platform ropes in one of the highest paid Bollywood actors, looks for wider appeal and a mass audience

Now, you can know your salary potential on Linkedin

The latest move will put Linkedin in direct competition with Glassdoor

How Linkedin struck 'fastest partnership' ever with Indian Government

Over 200K students have now already registered for the Linkedin's Placements product in less than 8 weeks

LinkedIn signs MoU with HRD Ministry for students to use its Placements platform

Placements, a product that LinkedIn has built for India, allows students and placement officers at colleges maximise their reach when searching for prospective jobs

LinkedIn inks MoU with govt to create more jobs for students

In less than eight weeks, over 2 lakh students registered for the product and there were over 1.2 mn job applications

LinkedIn's Hoffman offers $5 mn for Trump's tax returns

Hoffman didn't say which candidate he supports, but appealed to Trump's claims as a supporter of veterans

LinkedIn Lite: 'Made in India, for India'

To target small towns, lower-rung engineering colleges; new offer for start-ups; plans to export ideas from India

India numbers help LinkedIn cross 100-mn mark in APAC region

Currently, India is LinkedIn's second-largest user base after its home country, the US

LinkedIn crosses 100 million members in Asia-Pacific region

With 37 million members, India is its largest market in the region

Connecting Billions

An Indian is among gainers of the deal

Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 bn

Jeff Weiner will remain as CEO of LinkedIn; offer was made at $196/ share

Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion

The offer of $196 per share represents a premium of 49.5 percent to LinkedIn's Friday closing price

Bengaluru is India's most preferred city for professionals to work: LinkedIn

Nearly, a third of its 2.3 million users in the IT capital of the country were working in the technology sector

After 2012 data breach, LinkedIn sends safety alerts to 400 mn members

In 2012, it faced massive data breach, putting 17 million users' passwords, personal information in hackers hands