Articles by Jeff Weiner
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Over the next couple of hours, we’ll be moderating a Town Hall with President Barack Obama focused on economic opportunity in our country and putting America back to work. The Town Hall hosted at the Computer History Museum will feature questions from a live audience, as well as questions culled from thousands contributed by LinkedIn members over the past week.
As part of our vision to create economic opportunity for all professionals, LinkedIn has also partnered with the Startup America Partnership to help founders of young businesses manage their professional identity, connect with the right talent and access advanced tools to help them grow their businesses. LinkedIn will be making a donation of up to 100,000 free subscriptions to Startup America Partnership entrepreneurs – a value of $5 million.
The Startup America Partnership is an organization working to help young, high-growth companies succeed in order to accelerate job growth in America and was launched at the White House in response to President Obama’s call to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate entrepreneurship throughout the nation.
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Next week, LinkedIn is honored to be welcoming the President of the United States, Barack Obama, to a town hall on the subject of job creation and putting America back to work.
During the past several months, the national conversation has been increasingly focused on the state of the U.S. economy. This town hall is an invitation from the White House to people from across the country for an open exchange on one of our most pressing objectives as a nation: the creation of jobs and economic opportunity.
I recently shared my thoughts on the subject; specifically, the widening gap between talent and opportunity, and what we as a country can do to help fill the 3.2 million jobs currently available in the U.S. I can’t think of a better way to expand that conversation than by opening it up for participation to millions of individuals interested in helping to solve our unemployment challenges.
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These thoughts from our CEO, Jeff Weiner, on bold solutions for the unemployment crisis were originally published in Fortune Magazine earlier today. Syndicated with permission – Ed.
Tonight, President Obama is scheduled to unveil the government’s latest plan to address the country’s labor crisis. Unemployment is at 9.1%. However, that number only scratches the surface of the magnitude of the problem. There are over 25 million Americans unemployed, underemployed or only marginally attached to the workforce. Factor in the average size of a U.S. household and that’s as many as 20% of Americans whose lives are being dramatically impacted by this stagnation.
Yet there’s another massive labor imbalance in the country that rarely gets attention. According to the most recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are over three million job opportunities going unfilled in the U.S. right now, the highest level in three years.
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Today, LinkedIn reached a major milestone: 100 million professionals worldwide.
We’re now growing at roughly one million new LinkedIn members every week, the equivalent of a professional joining the site at faster than one member per second.
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As of early this morning, LinkedIn has 50 million users worldwide and we’re growing that figure at roughly one new member per second. When LinkedIn launched in 2003, it took 477 days — almost a year and four months — to reach our first million members. This last million took only 12 days.Where are these 50 million users? LinkedIn has been global since inception — about half of our total membership is international. There are now 11 million users in Europe alone. India is currently our fastest-growing country with almost 3 million users, while the Netherlands has the highest rate of adoption per capita outside the U.S., at 30%.
While 50 million is an important milestone, we’re even more excited about how our members are using the site. Around the globe, people turn to LinkedIn to create and manage their professional identities online. They reconnect with former colleagues and develop new relationships, enabling them to create and collaborate with a network of trusted individuals. Every day professionals use LinkedIn to define themselves —and their businesses — to the world.
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