Comments on: The Engineering Component of LinkedIn Company Profiles

By: Gareth James

Gareth James — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:28:00 +0000

I think linkedin company diirectory will need to be really selective, other wise it will just get totally spammed. Most directories are now dead so some innovation in this area could be fantastic.

By: Harun

Harun — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:27:04 +0000

this is a nice perspective on matters

By: Scott Hardigree

Scott Hardigree — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:15:01 +0000

In the early days, online directories were the starting place for most search marketing efforts. Today’s niche-oriented, social media infused directories such as http://www.mformer.com/ are welcomed, needed, and making a comeback, big time.

Glad to to see that LI is reinventing the model too!

By: Amelia Fandrey

Amelia Fandrey — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:04:17 +0000

I am trying to create a company profile but am unsure of how to do so? All help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

By: Anuj Kacker

Anuj Kacker — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:10:22 +0000

Great Feature!

Please introduce a search feature right on the home page.

Cheers

Anuj

By: Danis

Danis — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:08:35 +0000

Peter,
Thanks for your feedback. Currently we are working on improving the accuracy of our company profiles. We know that there is a number of duplicates in our company directory and some company relationships are not true. In a very near future our users will be able to add/edit companies, tag them, add/delete relationships, etc.

By: Danis

Danis — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:01:55 +0000

@Phil
Currently we don’t have such functionality. We are going to introduce Add/Suggest company feature in a next several months. Initially LI member will need to contact our CS agent and send details about a company. Later this feature will be introduced on the main site. It’s coming.

By: Peter Ikladious

Peter Ikladious — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:44:31 +0000

The company profiles are a great idea. I’m sure, over time, more information will continue to be included to make it an even more powerful tool.

I noticed a couple of things that I would hope you could address about them:
1. There are times when companies appear under different names. For example, one company I worked for is listed as either Hutchison Telecom, Hutchison Telecomms, Hutchison Telecommunications, Hutchison 3G Australia and a few others. There should be a way (ideally) to be able to identify these all as the same company. Alternately, there could be a way to allow users to tag 2 company names as belonging to the same company.

2. I also noticed in one case that a company had an incorrect “parent company” specified (in this case, it specified that the parent of “Hutchison Telecoms” was Ericsson). There was no way to tag this as incorrect. In actual fact, the parent is supposed to be Hutchison Whampoa Limited. There should be a way to tag incorrect data (or correctly mine it in the first place!!).

Thanks and keep up the great work!

By: Phil Rosenberg

Phil Rosenberg — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:04:39 +0000

How do I create a profile of my small company? I don’t find the links to get to it.

By: Danis

Danis — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:48:53 +0000

@Todd
Thanks, we are constantly working on company identification for member positions. My suggestion for you is to edit your position and select company you currently work for from the list of suggested companies. Or you may add new position if you want.

@Vishal
Appreciate you feedback. We are sure this tool will be extremely valuable for recruiters.

@Kawika
@Nataliya
Company directory is a work-in-progress project. We are adding new companies almost every week. If there is no company in our company directory which you want to put in your profile you can just skip the selection and free-type company name in Add/Edit position form. We then process all the suggested companies and add them to our company directory.

Thanks all,
–Danis