Why LinkedIn profile is important?
Why LinkedIn profile is important? LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, hosts the profiles of 660 million people in over 200 countries as of March 2020—and up to 47% of them are active users. Over 30 million companies have company pages on LinkedIn. Furthermore, according to LinkedIn, there are executives from every Fortune 500 company using this social network, and 95% of those companies use LinkedIn’s licensed recruiting software to search for job candidates. Numerous studies by entities including Microsoft, Jobvite and Career Thought Leaders, show convincingly that between 77% and 97% of staffing professionals overall use LinkedIn as a recruiting tool. They show further that approximately 70% of people making hiring decisions have decided NOT to hire a candidate based on what they’ve found online—and that a similar percentage have hired employees based on the person’s online presence. Here’s the clincher: A whopping 89% of all recruiters report having hired someone through Li