LinkedIn’s mission is to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful, so it’s no surprise that, as employees, we are always thinking about what’s next in our career. As 2014 comes to a close, I stopped to reflect on the year and to think about what career goals are most important for me in the year ahead. I realized they really boil down to two key priorities: build amazing new experiences for our members to help them reach…

Editor’s note: this post was originally featured on the LinkedIn Engineering Blog. A new study shows strong evidence that, in the last decade, there has been a substantial decline in the proportion of professional migrants who have the United States as their country of destination. This study was recently presented at this year’s SocInfo, a Conference on Social Informatics in Barcelona, Spain. I co-authored this paper with Bogdan State, who at the time was a Computational…

At LinkedIn, we are grateful for the trust of our members.  We believe that trust is earned by taking privacy and security seriously every day and by being transparent with you about how we use your personal data. LinkedIn recognizes the Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC) as our lead regulator on data protection and privacy practices in Europe. The IDPC came to us in 2013 with a request to review our practices in these areas. Since May 2013, we have actively…