LinkedIn, world’s largest professional network website, launched a placement product dubbed as ‘LinkedIn Placements’ in India on this Wednesday. The aim of LinkedIn placement is to make it easier for the graduated students to find their first job across country. This LinkedIn placement makes campus placement more easier and more efficient.
Ganesan Venakatasubramanian, head, engineering, LinkedIn India said “Our conversations with students, placement officers and recruiters involved in campus recruitment point to an unmet need for efficiency and effectiveness,” on launching the solution.
“There are roughly 6 million students graduating every year in this country, whose primary concern is finding their first job. LinkedIn Placements will help them do exactly that,” he added.
It is well known fact that fresh graduates find it very difficult to get job in India. Most of the people land in low-paying jobs just to have career start. This new platform wants these fresh graduates to get better job easier. There will be no fee in this platform. Users can apply to jobs and track it in real-time. It will also assist recruiters and companies for organizing better campus recruitments and hire fresh graduates.
This LinkedIn placement is locally developed by more than 40 LinkedIn employees and it mainly focus on applying to jobs and informing about it to students who applied.
Initially, this project has been launched as pilot project, used by 14 colleges including Jaipuria Institute of Management, FMS Delhi, ITM Group of Institutions, MIT Institute of Design, PESIT College, Presidency College, RVCE College etc. If it gets good response, it will be expanded to more colleges across the country.
LinkedIn has total 364 millions members over 200 countries and it recently crossed the mark of 30 millions users in India. So, India is a big market for it. Considering the youth population of India, there is a big chance to get better growth in this country. This is the main reason why LinkedIn is trying to give Indian users something to help in getting their very first job
