LinkedIn India’s Employee #1 talks
[Ed. note: This is the first in a series of posts on LinkedIn around the world. We just announced LinkedIn's country manager in India - Hari V. Krishnan - and here are his initial thoughts as he visits our Mountain View headquarters this week]
I am truly excited about my new role heading up LinkedIn India – a platform which has been an integral part of my own career. The Indian internet has grown strongly and changed dramatically over the last 5 years with social media, e-commerce and advertising all beginning to come of age. Having witnessed the change first hand working with leading companies like MySpace and Yahoo and start ups like Travelguru, I see the need to share knowledge assuming a more central role in sustaining the growth. I’m convinced that LinkedIn will play a strong role as a platform for sharing connections and knowledge.
India is the largest democracy on earth and one of the fastest growing economies globally. We have a large, skilled workforce and in the recent past our IT, services and telecommunications businesses have given us global acclaim. With the internet helping to shrink the world, Indians have already started developing their global connections. On LinkedIn, we already have over 3.4 million members from India and we continue to add 70,000 new users every week!
In the coming years I believe talent, professionalism, collaboration and networking will play an increasingly important role in sustaining India’s position in the global economy. The years ahead will also be full of great learning and growth for India’s professionals.
As I conclude my visit to LinkedIn, here in Mountain View, the excitement for the future of India and global professional networks is palpable. The pumped-up planning discussions and smiles (and lack of yawns) at every meeting, tell me we are excited to meet the challenges ahead. I look forward to linking up with many of you when I’m back in Mumbai. See you soon!
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Prasanna November 15th, 2009
Welcome Hari!
Good luck in your endeavors!
Jigar shah November 16th, 2009
Hi Hari, Its nice to know linkedin is serious about Indian market.
– How about deep integration with existing job portals ?
– And giving some more love to LinkedIn app development. Looks like its not going forward. Not many app (In single digit right now.)
– Some way to have more detailed resume on LinkedIn (Buy Visual CV :))
– Hide / remove certain activity directly from feed (my recent activity page ?)
There are lot more improvement needed. Its really good site but really cant make use of it. You need lots of tool for career development. What courses i can pursue. What are industrial scale for salary etc. These are not available on LinkedIn Site. I really dream of Linked in as one stop place for all career related stuff.
Thanks Jigar
Archana Pandey November 16th, 2009
Hey Hari!
Didnt know you joined Linkedin in India. Great company. Good to know they have started India operations.
All the best!
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sayitbetterkare November 16th, 2009
Hari
What a well-deserved honor for you and a huge next chapter of your work. I look forward to hearing about what unfolds there
Kare
Sachin Bhavsar November 17th, 2009
Hi
Amazing is the word, Linkedin is starting Indian operations and the the guy who is heading is top most in indian WEB 2.o scenarios.
it would be great to watch out for the Business model to be run, especially in India as compared to other world, since Indian has typically favored all new web 2.0 barring few.
Any way best of luck and cheers from us
Cheers
Sachin Bhavsar
Head
ValueFirst
sachin.bhavsar@vfirst.com
demetrius November 17th, 2009
Hari, congrats.
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Rajni Patel November 18th, 2009
Dear Sir,
I find the below paragraph in your article.
In the coming years I believe talent, professionalism, collaboration and networking will play an increasingly important role in sustaining India’s position in the global economy. The years ahead will also be full of great learning and growth for India’s professionals.
In line with your argument ” I believe talent, professionalism, collaboration and networking will play an increasingly important role” I have developed a System to better the world.
It is downloadable from the site http://www.scribd.com/doc/19065010
In view of your position and strength,I wish to share this concept with you to set in motion a cross border race to better the world.
With regards,
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Nidhin Elanjickal Jacob November 18th, 2009
Good Luck Hari
Jeetendra Haryani November 18th, 2009
Dear Mr Krishnan,
Congrats on this development, I am quite excited about linkedin coming to India, its been great using Linkedin.com.
Looking forward to more innovations from Linkedin.
Best wishes!
Jeetendra
Hari V Krishnan November 20th, 2009
All
Thanks very much for the kind words of welcome. I apologize for the slight delay in responding but its been a fun and busy week here at HQ.
I look forward to working with many of you in India and elsewhere.
cheers
Hari
PS> Jigar – thanks a lot for your feedback. We love it when our users care enough to share their thoughts.
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Sorav December 9th, 2009
Hari,
thats a great news. Congratulations! Can you please tell me the number of India companies registered on LinkedIn?
Kalpesh December 26th, 2009
Dear Mr. Hari,
Congratulations!!!! Happy to know that Linkedin has rightly given importance to Indian market…
Can you pls provide me the contact details for Linkedin India office?
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