LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a professional networking platform combining profiles, connections, company pages and job-related services. Users can present their work experience, follow organisations and professional discussions, and search for roles. Its jobs area is useful for exploring vacancies and employers, while the wider network supports professional contacts and industry updates.

LinkedIn connects professional profiles, organisation pages and employment-related information. It can support several different tasks: understanding a person's professional background, following an employer, exploring a vacancy or reading industry discussion. Treating those as separate tasks makes the site easier to use than approaching every page as if it were a job advertisement.

The useful starting point is the people, community or subject a visitor wants to follow. Its main functions include Professional profiles, Jobs and employers and Professional connections and updates, helping distinguish the kinds of shared spaces, published material and interaction available through this particular platform.