Recruiting Innovation: LinkedIn Now Lets You "Follow" Companies
In case you’ve missed it, LinkedIn now supports a really useful new feature that allows you to “follow” any company updates. How do I do it, you ask? Just search for any company profile:
When you get to the company profile, notice that you can just click “Follow company” over on the right:
From here on out, that same section of the site will offer you options for notifications about the following:
Obviously, this is a hugely practical way for recruiters to keep tabs on our key competitors.
I am wondering, however, if LinkedIn will begin to get pressure from companies wanting to turn off the ability for individuals outside off a company to follow, namely because of the competitive intel it provides anyone interested about company direction or if a large number of employees happen to be leaving. Imagine how that might affect stocks?
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