The Linkedin Profile

Posted by on July 11th, 2011 | 23 Comments

Just a few years ago, professional networking meant printing off your resume, attending job fairs, and scheduling coffee dates with old co-workers or friends of friends who could help you land your next dream job. That has all changed with LinkedIn. Now you can publicly display your resume, easily interact with industry professionals, and discover that your new boss is connected to your favorite college professor. And with its recent IPO, LinkedIn has been all over the news. After talking with my colleagues at Lab42 about our LinkedIn profiles, we were interested to find out exactly how other users were interacting with the site.

Lab42 surveyed 500 Americans who were registered LinkedIn users to discover how they utilized their profile and to see if they valued LinkedIn as a professional networking tool. Take a look at the infographic below to see the latest details on professional networking.

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About the Survey
This survey was conducted online via social networks from July 1 to July 5, 2011 among 500 social media users who are members of Linkedin.  This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated.  For complete survey methodology, please contact us at info@lab42.com.

 

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The LinkedIn Profile Infographic by Lab42 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at blog.lab42.com.

Article by Jonathan

Jonathan is the VP of Product and Co-Founder of Lab42 Market Research. He's a market researcher, entrepreneur and is an advocate of the lean startup mentality. You can reach him directly at JPirc@Lab42.com . You can also find him Tweeting about all things Chicago - @JPirc

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