Archive for the ‘LinkedIn Recruiting’ Category

What are LinkedIn’s API Terms and Conditions?

Jul 4

I’m not a lawyer and can’t give legal advice, inter­pre­ta­tion or opin­ion. How­ever, I have read LinkedIn’s API terms and con­di­tions. Don’t base any busi­ness deci­sions on my inter­pre­ta­tion. I’m just try­ing to sum­ma­rize the T&Cs as I under­stand them (yes, that’s a CYA). The full ver­sion is avail­able here. My (ama­teur) inter­pre­ta­tion is: If you […]

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Apply with LinkedIn — some thoughts

Jun 2

Yes­ter­day GigaOM announced that LinkedIn would launch Apply with LinkedIn before the end of the month. The ser­vice appar­ently allows com­pa­nies to put a link next to their jobs which can­di­dates can click on and apply for the job with their LinkedIn pro­file. There is no infor­ma­tion yet whether this is a paid for service, […]

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How big is the recruitment industry?

May 30

I’m tweak­ing our busi­ness plan and one of the ques­tions we need to answer is: how big is the recruit­ment indus­try? When LinkedIn filed for its IPO a cou­ple of weeks back it pro­vided what it believes to the answer: $85 bil­lion. To be pre­cise, this is what the research firm IDC esti­mated the worldwide […]

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