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Introducing Collaborative Posts

Our new Collaborative Posts feature is a great way to show how you’re teaming up with others to show learnings, share insights, and celebrate successful results, as well as potentially reach new audiences on LinkedIn.

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Introducing Hiring Assistant

We're excited to launch our first AI agent, Hiring Assistant, designed to take on a recruiter’s most repetitive tasks so they can spend more time on their most impactful work.

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LinkedIn’s 2026 Grad’s Guide shows where opportunity is growing

Grad’s Guide shows where opportunity is growing – and what’s holding Gen Z back. According to new LinkedIn data, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know, with almost half (44%) of Gen Z saying not having the right network is the biggest barrier to landing an entry-level role.

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LinkedIn Data Finds Women Make Up Just 23% of the C-Suite and 28% of Founders

LinkedIn Corporate Communications Sep 16, 2026

New LinkedIn Economic Graph data published in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2026 finds that women's progress is stalling across two major pathways to economic opportunity: leadership and entrepreneurship. Women hold just 23% of C-suite roles and account for only 28% of founders. As AI reshapes both pathways, closing gaps in advancement, sponsorship and skills will be critical to ensuring women share in future economic growth.

Categories: Economic Graph, Data and insights, Research
How LinkedIn is Continuing to Tackle AI Slop

LinkedIn Corporate Communications Sep 15, 2026

Within the first two weeks of launching the "Seems like AI slop" feedback option, more than one million LinkedIn members have used it to help us improve content quality. Combined with expanded automation defenses, improved classifiers, profile verification investments, and new AI tools focused on proofreading rather than rewriting, this has helped reduce views of AI-slop-classified content by 40%. These results reinforce our commitment to keeping LinkedIn a place for real people, expertise, and perspectives.

Categories: Product News
LinkedIn Top MBA Programs 2026: The 100 Programs for Long-Term Career Success

LinkedIn Corporate Communications Sep 15, 2026

LinkedIn’s 2026 Top MBA Programs list ranks 100 programs around the world based on the long-term career outcomes of their alumni. With an MBA requiring a significant investment of time and money, particularly in a challenging job market, prospective students are looking closely at what a degree can deliver for their careers. LinkedIn’s ranking uses career data to look beyond reputation and provide insight into alumni outcomes including career progression, hiring and professional network strength.

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How Can Gen Z Start Building a Stronger Professional Network?

LinkedIn Corporate Communications Sep 10, 2026

If you're Gen Z and want to build a stronger professional network, start small. Find people you're curious about, follow what they're doing, join the conversation and reach out when there's a natural opening. AI-powered people search, Catch Up and Grow in My Network can help you figure out who to connect with and when. Then use the 3-2-1 approach to keep at it each week.

Categories: North America, Data and insights
Building LinkedIn Premium All‑in‑One: Unified AI‑Powered Workflows for Small Businesses

LinkedIn Corporate Communications Sep 9, 2026

Building a great product, rather than just a good one, can boil down to how early and often users are brought into the development. With a 60% growth of global members on LinkedIn adding “founder” to their profile, it’s evident that the small business community is quickly growing and that it brings along its own needs and opportunities.

Categories: Product News, Research
LinkedIn Research: Gen Z Professionals Are Becoming Key Business Decision Makers Yet 72% Lack Confidence to Turn Contacts into Career Opportunities

LinkedIn Corporate Communications Sep 2, 2026

New research from LinkedIn (conducted in July 2026 among 18,000+ professionals and 6,000+ marketers) finds that despite growing up constantly connected online, Gen Z feels disconnected from the people that could help them in their careers. At the same time, they're becoming key decision-makers in the workforce, making it critical for brands to understand what earns their trust and attention.

Categories: Company News, Data and insights, Research
New LinkedIn Research Finds Women Account for Just 26% of AI Hires as AI Jobs Surge

LinkedIn Corporate Communications Aug 18, 2026

New LinkedIn research examines both the rapid rise of AI jobs and the barriers that prevent those opportunities from reaching everyone equally. The findings suggest that while AI is becoming an increasingly important source of career growth and economic opportunity, significant representation gaps remain across the AI talent pipeline.

Categories: Economic Graph, Data and insights, Research
How to stay safe when applying for jobs online: Class of 2026

LinkedIn Corporate Communications Aug 4, 2026

New LinkedIn research shows Gen Z professionals in the US are nearly five times more likely than Baby Boomers to fall victim to a job scam. As graduation season pushes a new cohort into the job market creating higher risk, LinkedIn shows where the job opportunities are and how to job search safely.

Categories: North America, Research
LinkedIn Top Colleges 2026: The 50 best colleges for long-term career success in the U.S.

LinkedIn Corporate Communications Aug 4, 2026

LinkedIn released its second-annual Top Colleges ranking, recognizing the 50 U.S. schools whose graduates have gone on to achieve the strongest professional outcomes. For many students and families, choosing a college increasingly comes down to one question: which schools create the greatest opportunities after graduation? LinkedIn Top Colleges was designed to help answer that question by examining how graduates build careers over time.

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