LinkedIn
LinkedIn is one of the world’s best business & employment oriented platform that was established on 28 December 2002. This website is available in more than 20 languages that include Turkish, Chinese, Arabic, English, Portuguese, Romanian, Czech, Korean, Malay, & Russian among others. The creators of this platform are Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly, Allen Blue, Reid Hoffman, & Jean-Luc Valliant. As of March 2018 records, the Alexa rank of this site is 31. Presently, the platform has more than 530 million members in various countries across the world.
Linkedin Divisions
The platform has divided their operations into many different divisions mentioned below:
• Marketing Solutions- This division is involved in generating revenue through advertisers who pay them when someone clicks on their targeted ads.
• Talent Solutions- The branded corporation, pay per click targeted job ads & career listing pages are controlled by this division of the platform.
• Learning Solutions- The users are allowed to learn a range of skills about the personal learning objectives & job functions on this platform.
• Premium Subscription- This division is responsible for the operations that allow the users to check out advance services that include LinkedIn Talent, LinkedIn Sales, LinkedIn Business, and other related services.
LinkedIn Members
The platform has members from more than 200 countries across the world. The main competitors of LinkedIn are XING and Viadeo who have 50 million & 11 million members respectively. There are many different methods users can access their profile.