Two months back the market snapped up shares of the professional networking site LinkedIn.
Well, when it comes to online professional networking, it looks like there really is.
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My recommendation is to use your profile for a mix of both personal connecting and professional networking.
Formal training has not gone away, and it still plays a huge role in career development and professional networking.
It will ultimately allow us to enrich professional networking experiences with personal recommendation.
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Why are females, who make up a larger part of the workforce than men, engaging less in professional networking online?
LinkedIn sees news as an important part of its ongoing push to become more than just a professional networking site.
After leaving PayPal in 2000, Hoffman founded professional networking site LinkedIn, while moonlighting as an investor in some 80 startups.
George spells out how the eight-year-old professional networking site is rapidly eclipsing other tools used by recruiters and company hiring managers.
LinkedIn, the professional networking website, just released data that shows the top three months for promotions: January is still number one.
Flush with the proceeds of its initial public offering in May, online professional networking site LinkedIn is on a roll all across the planet.
With this move Monster hopes to ride the popularity of social and professional networking sites that has been critical to the success of LinkedIn.
The sites help users tap their Facebook friends for professional networking.
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However, the internet has afforded us the ability to make more connections in a single day than attending a trade show or professional networking event once a year.
Professional networking is of particular concern for many foreign nationals.
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Even if your ideal is Oprah, you may find her empathy in one mentor, her business savvy in another and a slew of great professional networking connections in a third.
By going to the public markets ahead of Facebook, the professional networking site can take advantage of the implied valuation of its larger peer without getting directly sized up by investors.
People have been burnishing their online reputations for years, padding their resumes on professional networking site LinkedIn and trying to affect the search results that appear when someone Googles their names.
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's professional networking site before they post an opening.
The company also owns and operates its own gaming platform, a group buying service called Nuomi, a video sharing site called 56.com and a professional networking site similar to LinkedIn called jingwei.com.
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LinkedIn still does professional networking far better.
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Monster Worldwide recently introduced a professional social networking app on Facebook called BeKnown.
Professional Diversity Network fell after the professional-networking website operator's initial public offering on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
The largest professional social networking site, it has more than 175 million members in 200-some countries worldwide.
Meanwhile, national professional and networking organizations for women are starting successful local chapters.
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Rick Marini, chief executive of the professional-networking app "BranchOut, " said that more than 20 million people have signed up for the app.
While Lenovo's primary social recruiting tool is LinkedIn, Ms. Wang said she also uses Tianji, a Chinese-language professional social networking site that is similar to LinkedIn.
For instance, you can not only list your employer, you can list the specific projects you worked on and even tag colleagues who worked on them with you. (My colleague Kashmir Hill notes that the new Facebook is like the professional social networking site LinkedIn now.) Bad, because you may not want to give Facebook any more information on you than it already has.
LinkedIn the professional social-networking site, may not best meet consumer expectations when it comes to the Ideal for social networking.
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