Ed. note: This post is a part of our continuing blog series featuring our new hires. We now turn you over to Brendan Browne.
Brendan is the Director of Global Talent Acquisition — in other words, recruiting — here at LinkedIn. Brendan’s had a really diverse career, working in Hollywood, in Technology, East Coast, West Coast, China, and more, so he’s going to tell you a little bit about why he’s so excited to be at LinkedIn.
Today is Veterans Day here in the US where we honor those that have served in the military. The most recent statistics from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics show a worsening employment situation among veterans. In these challenging economic times we dug into our data to see if we could identify useful insights relevant for veterans. We also put together a list of LinkedIn tips for veterans, from veterans who work at LinkedIn.
There are nearly half a million LinkedIn members with U.S. military service listed on their profile. For these veterans, here are the top 10 industries in terms of the total number of LinkedIn members currently working in that industry:
In honor of Diwali, LinkedIn has created a greetings page for our celebrating friends. The page is only viewable in India, but check out some pictures below from our staff. If you are located in India you can go to in.linkedin.com to view all the wishes from LinkedIn employees.
Happy Diwali and a prosperous new year!
Deep Nishar, VP of Product and User Experience at LinkedIn, and wife Rashmi Nishar
May your year be full of lights and labs!
Ramesh Subramonian, Senior Quality Assurance at LinkedIn, and puppy
Diwaali ki bahot saari shubhkaamnaayein.
Neha Desai, Senior Quality Engineer at LinkedIn, and family
We are glad to provide companies a place on LinkedIn to showcase their products, services and associated recommendations. Company Pages will enable companies to build their brand through network-aware recommendations, giving members rich, credible insights into how any given product (or service) is perceived by their fellow professionals. We’re starting today with over 40 companies who now have their “Products and Services” tab enabled on their Company page. We’ll be rolling out this feature for all companies and small businesses over the course of this week.
