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LinkedIn is kind of hard to figure out how their business plan works. They are a social network for professionals, companies have a profile, people post resume

LinkedIn is kind of hard to figure out how their business plan works. They are a social network for professionals, companies have a profile, people post resume stuff on it, recruiters use it to find people for contracts or jobs. I have people visit my profile, but I can't see who they are unless I pay a subscription. I list Visual BASIC 6.0 as a skill and there is still a small demand for work with it in legacy software. I get all kinds of LinkedIn email from groups I joined, some of the email is basically spam and makes me want to quit the group. I made a message filter in Thunderbird to move all LinkedIn email to my LinkedIn folder. I check it to see if anything important is there, most of it is not important. Facebook recently made a Facebook at Work site for employees to communicate with each other. I think it competes with LinkedIn.

dwightgunning 11y ago
It's all advertising and premium subscriptions aimed at the HR Recruitment space.
pfarnsworth 11y ago
They have very well defined businesses, actually. 1) Ads 2) Enhanced subscriptions for recruiters 3) Premium subscriptions for end users
skewart 11y ago
Facebook at Work is very different from LinkedIn. I doubt they will compete with each other at all - at least not any time soon. LinkedIn is focused on helping companies find and recruit employees, and also helping job-seekers find new jobs. Facebook at Work seems to be focused more on communication and collaboration within a given company or project. Of course, it's entirely possible that Facebook at Work would grow into something closer to LinkedIn. Despite LinkedIn having a huge head start in this area, Facebook probably could catch up. Lots of people already have Facebook accounts, and people generally like having fewer accounts for things rather than more. Plus, Facebook could easily replicate a lot of the recruiting features that companies currently pay LinkedIn thousands of dollars per year for.

dwightgunning 11y ago

It's all advertising and premium subscriptions aimed at the HR Recruitment space.

pfarnsworth 11y ago

They have very well defined businesses, actually. 1) Ads 2) Enhanced subscriptions for recruiters 3) Premium subscriptions for end users

skewart 11y ago

Facebook at Work is very different from LinkedIn. I doubt they will compete with each other at all - at least not any time soon. LinkedIn is focused on helping companies find and recruit employees, and also helping job-seekers find new jobs. Facebook at Work seems to be focused more on communication and collaboration within a given company or project. Of course, it's entirely possible that Facebook at Work would grow into something closer to LinkedIn. Despite LinkedIn having a huge head start in this area, Facebook probably could catch up. Lots of people already have Facebook accounts, and people generally like having fewer accounts for things rather than more. Plus, Facebook could easily replicate a lot of the recruiting features that companies currently pay LinkedIn thousands of dollars per year for.