CEO Jeff Weiner to move into Executive Chairman role and Ryan Roslansky, Senior Vice President of Product, to become CEO on June 1

After 11 years as LinkedIn’s CEO, Jeff Weiner has decided to take on a new role as LinkedIn’s Executive Chairman. Ryan Roslansky, currently our Senior Vice President of Product, will become CEO of LinkedIn effective June 1, 2020.  

LinkedIn Launches First Career Pathways India Survey.

Today professionals in India are changing jobs and careers more than ever before and the days of a linear career path or life-long employment at a company are no longer the norm. LinkedIn surveyed more than 5,000 full-time professionals across 11 cities in India to find our on how career paths are rapidly changing, what motivates different generations to stay in their current job, why they are increasingly keen on pivoting functions and industries, and what they believe will take them closer to their dream job.

LinkedIn’s New Jobs and Hiring Features Creates Better Matches.

In the past five years, LinkedIn job postings have grown from 300,000 to 20+ million. Members apply to around 25 million jobs every week, with a new hire made every 8 seconds. Now, LinkedIn has announced several new jobs and hiring features, including new Instant Job Alerts, which is making finding the right jobs simpler, and the availability of our new Recruiter and Jobs platform, which is making it more efficient for hiring managers to hire quality candidates.