Allen Blue, Co-Founder of LinkedIn: Leveraging 900M Career Profiles for Employment Insights

Episode 58 April 11, 2023 00:24:55
Allen Blue, Co-Founder of LinkedIn: Leveraging 900M Career Profiles for Employment Insights
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Allen Blue, Co-Founder of LinkedIn: Leveraging 900M Career Profiles for Employment Insights

Apr 11 2023 | 00:24:55

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Show Notes

It’s safe to say that nearly everyone reading this has a profile on LinkedIn or, if not, has visited it to learn about someone else’s career history. The social media giant has 900 million registered members worldwide and has become an essential tool for employers, job seekers and entrepreneurs. On this episode of WorkforceRx we’ll hear from one of LinkedIn’s founders, Allen Blue, who has stayed with the company for its entire twenty-year history and is now serving as vice president of Product Management. His areas of focus include LinkedIn’s Economic Graph, which involves sharing economic data with governments and institutions to improve education and workforce policy. “We derive insights about how skills are emerging and changing, about the landscape of education, about new technologies...and we aggregate all that data and go talk to policymakers so that governments can act.” In this thoughtful conversation with Futuro Health CEO Van Ton-Quinlivan, Blue highlights ways people can use LinkedIn to visualize a career path, how technology can be deployed to connect employers to potential workers, and the growing opportunities online to deliver education and training. “That's something which basically didn't exist, not in a serious way, even ten years ago. So, it's a huge opportunity.” Whether you are an employer, job seeker, educator or looking for career advancement, there is much to learn from this social media pioneer.

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