You've been asked to give LinkedIn recommendations to former colleagues. The pressure is on: Unlike a traditional letter of reference shared with specific employers or hiring teams regarding a ...

Yesterday’s New York Times business section reported the startling news that LinkedIn, the 11-year-old professional social networking site with more than 332 million members, is being sued by a small ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in San Jose ruled on Tuesday that LinkedIn Corp. doesn’t run afoul of the Fair Credit Reporting Act by providing premium members of its professional networking site ...

Job references still matter. Eight out of 10 HR executives consistently contact references for professional (89 percent), executive (85 percent), administrative (84 percent), and technical (81 percent ...

When you recommend a person on LinkedIn, you indicate to the people in your network that you have done business with with her in the past-or have associated with her in some other capacity-and that ...

If a LinkedIn Recommendation has disappeared from your profile, you can take steps to make it visible again. LinkedIn Recommendations allow former employers, teachers and colleagues to comment on your ...

Writing a LinkedIn recommendation comes with a certain amount of pressure. Your coworker may be relying on you to help them get a new job, and because LinkedIn recommendations are public, what you ...

Due to the universal acceptance of LinkedIn in all matters employment the traditional reference letter has been relegated to the analog dust bin. A young recruiter does not have to be burned more than ...