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Using LinkedIn to Assess The Profile of Your Organization

Today I stumbled upon a new service from LinkedIn called Companies. Interestingly it shows SuccessFactors as “Most Connected Companies” but that is not the point of the blog post.

The new service provides some great intelligence into the social behaviors of their employees while at the same time providing some essential employee information most companies are unable to track. The intelligence includes:

Company career paths before and after joining the company
Employee connection to other companies
Fellow employees on LinkedIn
New hires, promotions and changes within the company
Popular profiles
Common job titles within the company
Avg age of employee
Top schools from which the company hires
Male/female demographic

Truly amazing intelligence for any employee, prospective candidate and HR themselves.

Technorati Tags: LinkedIn profiles, talent management, employee

August 12th, 2008

5 Comments Add your own

1. Techsphinx | August 12th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

And why is this so amazing? It is simply some scraped data off of press releases and such, hardly anything you would ever rely upon. My assessment of this capability would be interesting and curious at best, but ultimately worth almost nothing.
2. Amy Wilson | August 12th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

How about loss vulnerability? I looked up Oracle and saw that salesforce.com was one of the top destinations of former employees. In addition, it also shows that current employees are highly connected to people at salesforce.com. Maybe something managers would see as useful information?
3. Techsphinx | August 13th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

You needed Linkedin to tell you that a lot of ex-Oracle people are at Salesforce? Sorry Amy, I think Oracle already had a good sense of this.
4. Amy Wilson | August 14th, 2008 at 8:27 am

Good point
5. Nicholas Garbis | September 2nd, 2008 at 8:17 pm

I have firsthand experience as a candidate using LinkedIn as a “company intelligence” tool and it was stellar.

Example: I walked into a day of interviews knowing how long each person on my interview schedule had been with the company, their previous employers, their education and areas of focus, and sometimes even what they looked like!

In addition, I was able to look up some of the recently departed employees to see where they had gone to (assessing turnover and talent risks).

Because ALL of the information I viewed was voluntarily provided by the LinkedIn users, so I feel very comfortable with this as a professional approach (as compared with straight-up googling everyone).

Intelligence = ability to absorb and synthesize?