Linkedin Blog

In 2009, I was contacted by a LinkedIn executive who needed some help scaling operations in Europe. Why did he contact me? Well, he’d found my LinkedIn profile and it all started from there. Since then, it’s been an incredible non-stop journey of growth and inspiration. So in 2011, I decided to capture it all by documenting my experiences in a video blog.

My role at LinkedIn is to assist our corporate customers achieve success with social recruiting on LinkedIn. Our team is helping them attract talent from the LinkedIn professional network and branding their organization as an employer of choice in new and innovative ways.

As I stood last night in a London venue full of some of our UK members, I overheard Lou Reed’s musical director deep in conversation with a senior executive from one of the world’s largest financial institutions.

That doesn’t happen every day, I thought.

Hi everyone.  My name is Nico Posner, and I am the product manager responsible for our international sites here at LinkedIn.

LinkedIn is a global network of over 42 million professionals from every country around the world, with approximately half of our member base outside the United States. Our mission at LinkedIn is to connect the world’s professionals, and we would like to do this in as many languages as possible. A frequent request from our members is to offer the LinkedIn website in their native language. Today, the LinkedIn website is available in four languages: English, Spanish, French and German (we allow users to offer their profiles in over 40 languages), but we’d like to extend that to as many professionals as possible around the globe by offering additional languages.