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For many users, LinkedIn is primarily an online resume. There are a few segments of users, however, which are, in fact, starting to “live” on the site. The primary group is executive recruiters. Because of the breadth and quality of LinkedIn’s member base, recruiters are using it to identify, contact and check references on passive job seekers – i.... See more

FOLDS • LinkedIn Venture Capital Investment Memo from Bessemer Venture Partners -

However, I don't know that we are actually heading this way. Personal legibility, and the authority behind it, is the strongest force for finding and qualifying the best jobs.

Adam Keesling • Explaining Lambda School's Success: Career Legibility

If the new American Dream is defined by “creative expression, online influence and extreme optionality” over linear moves up the corporate ladder, then LinkedIn is enough to make any Millennial or Gen Z jobseeker cringe.

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Reduced to its simplest form, LinkedIn is a digital resume. A profile consists of your past work experience, education, skills, and references. The posts, comments, and messages are like a cover letter. But we’ve long decided that there are better ways to showcase your ability than a list of the places you’ve worked, the school you went to, and a h... See more

Fadeke Adegbuyi • LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe - Divinations

People used to call LinkedIn “work Facebook”, by which I think they meant it's a mindless website where people gab about their work lives. But LinkedIn isn’t really about work in any meaningful sense. Of course, people talk about working on LinkedIn. Oh, how they love to talk about working! No matter the shitty job, no matter the grueling hours, ev... See more

The Rise of the LinkedIn Right

The old school method of job progression is dead for two reasons:

Michael Ellsberg • The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful

It’s your publicist. Move over, CNN. LinkedIn lets you showcase your expertise and express your point of view. Through the way you write your summary to the content you share in your activity feed, the groups you join, and the conversations you have, you can tell people who you are and what you believe.

William Arruda • Digital You: Real Personal Branding in the Virtual Age

All of the firms discussed here have reputations for long hours and hard work, even above the norms for the all-absorbing professions in which they compete.