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Competitive Intelligence now on LinkedIn for 160,000+ companies! follow this blog post

posted by on March 21, 2008

I'm very excited about LinkedIn's new release from last night. 

When you do a search and see someone's employer in their profile, you can now click on some of those companies and see a summary page of competitive intelligence! 

Over  160,000 profiles of companies will show this feature and any user can see them. The company profile contains a succinct overview of a company's industry data in combination with LinkedIn data, and it pulls information from Capital IQ. 

What do you see here?

  •  A list of all that company's employees to which you are connected
  • A list of  RECENT HIRES  from that company! (also from your network)
  • A list of people  RECENTLY PROMOTED  at that company! (also from your network)
  • A list of companies were people CAME FROM  before they were hired to this company!
  • A list of companies people GO TO  when they leave this company!
  • A list of companies that this company's employees are "most connected" to!
  • What locations do most of the company's employees live in!
  • The company's most  common job titles
  • From what  universities the company  hires the  most 
  • The average  tenure for people at that company (how long they last)
  • And a distribution of  AGE and  GENDER at that company!

 

And soon you will also be able to add, to your company page, the following:

  • A list of targeted jobs, recruitment videos, and other promotional material for recruitment efforts
  • Information about your company's products and services
  • Company images
WOW!!!!
 
Cheers,
Shally 
 
 P.S. Our LinkedIn master class is now on DVD! And check out all these free resources on LinkedIn.

 


 
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  • 1 point 19 months ago

    In the LinkedIn kitchen when you wrote about LinkedIn Kung Fu back on September 18, 2006. At that time it was merely an appetizer..

    Yum Yum.. It only took them a year and a half develop a main course and to do something great with that data.

    Very Cool.

    Regards, Matt Kerr

  • 1 point 19 months ago

    Boolean is not the answer to selling/persuading at all. It is, however, one of many answers to finding talent.

  • 1 point 19 months ago

    Wondering how more intelligent LinkedIn would grow... Thanks for pulling this out Shally

  • 1 point 19 months ago

    This is good intel, Shally - thank you. I must be honest that I'm skeptical of the groupthink philosophy that Boolean searches on Google and/or MS Live are the answers to recruiting/selling/persuading talent, but I see real value in this.

    Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work.

  • 1 point 19 months ago

    ...and very, very cool. I checked out my major client and the information is accurate. I also learned some things that I didn't know. The possibilities for sourcing using this tool are endless!

  • 1 point 19 months ago

    Yes, and its growing! Think about what you can do with this as a researcher!

  • 1 point 19 months ago

    BIG.