{"id":615,"date":"2016-07-15T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T12:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/?p=615"},"modified":"2016-07-15T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T12:22:38","slug":"the-ultimate-job-seekers-guide-to-linkedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/the-ultimate-job-seekers-guide-to-linkedin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Job Seeker\u2019s Guide to LinkedIn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice Article by &#8211; John Patrick Pullen @jppullen <\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn currently has 433 million members from more than 200 countries.<br \/>\nAccording to comScore, the site\u2019s age demographics are the most balanced in all of social media. As of late 2014, 35% of its users were between 18-34 years old, 40% were 35-54, and 25% were age 55 and over.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s also a user base that\u2019s consistently growing \u2014 two people join LinkedIn per second, with recent college graduates representing the bulk of the site\u2019s new members.<\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn is free to use, but it also offers a \u201cpremium\u201d version for $30 per month. That may seem like a steep rate, but it\u2019s a popular offering \u2014 the social network raked in $532 million in LinkedIn Premium fees in 2015 alone.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft recently purchased LinkedIn for about $26 billion, one of the largest technology acquisitions ever.<\/p>\n<p>Read Full Article &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4403304\/the-ultimate-job-seekers-guide-to-linkedin\/\">http:\/\/time.com\/4403304\/the-ultimate-job-seekers-guide-to-linkedin\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice Article by &#8211; John Patrick Pullen @jppullen LinkedIn currently has 433 million members from more than 200 countries. According to comScore, the site\u2019s age demographics are the most balanced in all of social media. As of late 2014, 35% of its users were between 18-34 years old, 40% were 35-54, and 25% were age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[155,59],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-john-patrick","tag-linkedin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/linkedin.png?fit=256%2C256&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vlXG-9V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1124,"url":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/linkedin-debuts-your-commute-navigation-and-maps-to-evaluate-jobs-based-on-how-far-they-are\/","url_meta":{"origin":615,"position":0},"title":"LinkedIn debuts Your Commute, navigation and maps to evaluate jobs based on how far they are","author":"admin","date":"June 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"LinkedIn, the social media site that\u2019s aimed at people looking to network or otherwise change up their career prospects, is taking a plunge into location-based services. 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