FAQ for the 'LinkedIn' Group

[RShankar]

Please post here your Q&A for the 'LinkedIn' group.

[deniseygrace]

Question from the 'Twitter' group to the 'LinkedIn' group: Do you think LinkedIn is moving towards closing its APIs fully (like Netflix), and if so, why?

[Magicperf]

Question from Amazon Cloud to LinkedIn: What differences can you find between LinkedIn and the newly Facebook for Work?

[maugus33]

Question from 'Paypal' group to the 'LinkedIn' group: Has LinkedIn revealed any future plans to expand their business? If not, what new things can you think of that LinkedIn might expand their services to?

[intC0der]

Answer from 'LinkedIn' to 'Paypal': Yes, just recently LinkedIn Expanded to China by launching a Chinese-Language website. LinkedIn hopes that the new site, will attract 140 million new professionals.

[intC0der]

Answer from 'LinkedIn' to ' Amazon Cloud': Facebook at work is more like a product for coworkers to communicate and share content. The differences are: that if you have a Facebook at work account, only your co-workers can see and share contents, to create a work account, your company must be already using Facebook at work and to set up an Profile on Facebook at work, you need to be pre-approved by you company. And on the other hand, with linkedIn you can created an account whenever you want, share contents with any of your connections (not limited just with co-workers) and you can create your own profile.

[intC0der]

Answer from 'LinkedIn' to 'Twitter': Yes, i believe that LinkedIn is moving towards closing its APIs. On February 12, 2015 LinkedIn announced that will be restricting their open APIs.

[aasthadave]

Question from 'Netflix' to 'LinkedIn': why is linkedin so popular among all the social recruiting websites?

[intC0der]

Answer from 'linkedIn' to 'Netflix': the reason LinkedIn is so popular among the social recruting websites, is that more than 90% of the recruters that use linkedIn are active.

[Jnesbeth]

Question from 'Github' to 'LinkedIn': How are companies today taking advantage of using linkedIn for their own business?

[intC0der]

Answer from 'LinkedIn' to 'Github': Companies are taking advantage of using LinkedIn by Finding Business Partners, Clients and service providers, using LinkedIn as a recruitment tool and also advertising their business and products on LinkedIn.

[RShankar]

Question from Dr. Shankar to the 'LinkedIn' Group: LinkedIn plans to acquire lynda.com. Discuss the synergies. How well LinkedIn has integrated their earlier acquisitions both from technical (in terms of API access) and business (in terms of financial return) perspectives? I am posing a longer question since you have 3 in your group. There are 3 aspects. Each of you can take one aspect and address it.

[adrianas92]

Question from 'NOAA' to 'LinkedIn' Group: Does LinkedIn have a way to determine if a company, job post or job related notification is legitimate? How do I know that my information entered for any job application will be secured and it is not a spam?

[intC0der]

Answer from 'LinkedIn' to 'NOAA': LinkedIn has become a victim of occasional online scams, LinkedIn itself does not have a way of detecting spams Jobs/Users/Posts. However, LinkedIn came up with an List of How to spot job scams and spams: 1.) The job position does not require any qualifications 2.) No job interview required you're immediately hired 3.) No available background information about the company 4.) The contact person is located oversea.

[intC0der]

Answer from 'LinkedIn' to 'Dr. Shankar': Once LinkedIn integrates Lynda.com, If you’re a member of both lynda.com and LinkedIn, when you complete a course(Certification) on lynda.com, you’ll receive an email with a link that lets you quickly and easily post your new certificate of completion to your LinkedIn profile—adding depth and breadth to your online resume. Now with one click away one can post their accomplishment into their linkedIn profile, making it easy and fast for future employers to see updated certifications/information.

[Bainshinds]

Question from 'Amazon Retail' Group to 'LinkedIn' Group: Are there any plans for LinkedIn to venture into other areas of social media.

[GiBiT]

Answer from 'LinkedIn' to 'Dr. Shankar': On the financial side of the acquisition. Lynda.com charges $25.00 a month and $250 per year for basic subscriptions. Premium subscriptions are $375 per year.

LinkedIn's largest ecosystem of people is students. Lynda.com is used for online courses. The two go hand in hand. There have been no official announcements how they plan to use Lynda (except sharing progress straight from Lynda to LinkedIn as Eric has said), but as I have been reading it seems that they are going to be integrating it somehow into the LinkedIn premium to make more users/students go LinkedIn premium.

LinkedIn premium Prices:

• Job Seekers -> $29.99/month
• Business Plan -> $59.99/month
• Sales People -> $79.99/month
• Hiring Specialists -> $119.99/month

Most students that sign up for premium, sign up for the Job Seeker ($29.99/month). Lynda charges for it's basic subscription $25.00/month. Could LinkedIn be planning on offering a student plan for $25.00 a month and have access to Lynda videos? As of right now, there is no information on official plans, there are rumors such as this, but we will have to see.

[GiBiT]

Answer from 'LinkedIn' to 'Amazon Retail': LinkedIn has solidified the recruiting and professionalism social network area. They just acquired Lynda.com, which is an online course education website. They may have a plan to create a section of LinkedIn geared towards making online schooling social, but as of right now, there have been no official announcements about what they plan on doing with Lynda. (except minor things, like sharing progress and such).