Job hunting? New service may link you
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a new approach to the tiresome task of job hunting, LinkedIn.com, will soon up its job listings into the millions. The San Francisco-based company offers a Web approach to networking and brings millions of people, including more than 8,500 locals who are LinkedIn members, a chance to mine contacts or trusted people for information like job openings. That tally of users is up by 75 percent since January, when the local total was 4,800. LinkedIn differs dramatically from cyber-job giants such as Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com, which is partially owned by Enquirer parent company Gannett Co. Inc., because it is a referral-powered job board. LinkedIn members can see their connections to executives and others because it shows the contacts of other contacts – that is, a member knows another member, who also knows another member. Those contacts show up as degrees of separation, which are mined by the new job search section. The result is that jobs offered by contacts or people in users’ LinkedIn contacts list show up at the top of any search list created by job hunters. "Those are the jobs you are mostly likely to get, even if your resume does not perfectly match the job description, because of the personal connection," said Konstantin Guericke, vice president of marketing and co-founder of LinkedIn, which has 2.7 million users
