LinkedIn Blog

  • 19 June 2013: The Internship: LinkedIn Style – It’s with pride, amazement and excitement that we enter LinkedIn’s fourth internship year.  Just over three years ago, we launched our first formal internship program at our Mountain View headquarters. With grassroots efforts and sheer determination, we worked day and night to hire 45 brilliant interns within four months for our engineering and data science [...]
  • 18 June 2013: What Women Want @ Work: 4 Ways to Build Flexibility into Your Career – It was about 15 years ago when the concept of “balance” started making the media rounds. After reading yet another article about the importance of establishing this magical equilibrium I took the concept to my office. I walked the halls asking the very question that was making headlines, “Are you balanced?” The responses ranged from, [...]
  • 14 June 2013: Members First on InDay and Every Day – Once a month, we set aside a Friday for employees to think creatively, work on innovative projects, and invest in their careers. We call this InDay. Today, our InDay theme reinforces a philosophy we live and breathe every day at LinkedIn, Members First. Everything we build at LinkedIn is dedicated to furthering our mission of [...]
  • 13 June 2013: Influencer: The One Conference You Want to Attend (It Just Takes a Click) – It would be hard to count the number of people who have been influenced by Bill Gates: early employees of Microsoft; Gates Foundation grantees across the world; nonprofit innovators. But when Gates needs guidance, where does he turn? That’s the question he answers today in his inaugural post on LinkedIn Influencer, our platform that allows [...]
  • 11 June 2013: Your Professional Network is Integrating with OS X Mavericks – During yesterday’s keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Craig Federighi announced that LinkedIn will be integrated into the newest version of OS X, called OS X Mavericks. This upcoming integration will offer Mac users a seamless experience on the Mac platform to connect, share, and be notified of their LinkedIn activity, making [...]