linkedin & public employment...

LinkedIn & Public Employment

Services

Nate Williams

Head of Civic Engagement

OUR VISION

Create economic opportunity for every

member of the global workforce

500+

MMembers

9MEmployers

9+MOpen jobs

11BEndorsements

29KSchools

Billions of relationships

Country

LinkedIn

Members Brazil 26,815,077

Mexico 9,276,948

Colombia 5,253,733

Argentina 5,136,232

Chile 3,548,498

Peru 3,264,495

Venezuela 2,503,020

Ecuador 1,490,929

Costa Rica 650,491

Dominican Republic 573,700

Guatemala 546,101

Puerto Rico 514,267

Uruguay 513,520

Bolivia 441,116

Working with Public Employment ServicesPilots underway

• Job Bank distribution. We have partnered with several governments to

distribute jobs from national job banks on LinkedIn in order to increase applicant

traffic flow.

• Job Seeker Services (curriculum). We are working with NASWA in the US to

create a curriculum for job centers that teaches internet job search and

network building.

• Labor Market Information. We have provided LMI to governments around the

world on a consultative basis, including the US, Canada, UK, Belgium, Italy,

Singapore, China, and Australia and many others.

• Unemployment Benefits. We are undertaking a pilot in the US to determine

whether network-based job search can reduce unemployment duration for UI

recipients.

• Vocational Education. We are undertaking a pilot in the US to accept

vocational program data from a state government and make it available through

LinkedIn.

Focus for Today

Job Search and Distribution

Job Search on LinkedIn is Network-BasedAcademic Research has long proven the value of network-based hiring

• “Why the Referential Treatment? Evidence from Field Experiments on Referrals. “

• Research performed in 2015 by Harvard University, NBER, Coursera

• Key Quote: “The use of social connections is ubiquitous in the labor market. More than half of jobs are found

through informal connections and firms are more likely to hire referred than non-referred applicants, all else equal.”

• Do Informal Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm's Employee Referral System.

• Research performed in 2014 by MIT, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

• Found that while referrals only made up about 6% of total applications, they resulted in more than 25% of hires.

• Key Quote: “We find that referred candidates are more likely to be hired; experience an initial wage advantage

which dissipates over time; and have longer tenure in the firm… The observed referral effects appear to be stronger at

lower skill levels.”

• The Value of Hiring Through Employee Referrals

• Research performed in 2016 by University of Minnesota, University of California – Berkeley, University of Toronto, Cornerstone

• Research Found: Compared to non-referred applicants, referred applicants are more likely to be hired, less likely to

quit, have lower accident rates, and yield substantially higher profits per worker than non-referred workers.

Jobs Distribution through LinkedInUS case study

• The Challenge. The National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) and their tech

partner, Direct Employers, list job postings as an employer service. They wanted to provide more job

applicants to employers and were looking for a way to boost distribution.

• The Partnership. LinkedIn and NASWA formed a partnership where LinkedIn agreed to take an

inbound data feed of jobs and make it available to our 130 million US members.

• The Process. The agreement was signed in October 2016, the data feed was tested and set up in

December. The jobs were live in LinkedIn’s system in January 2017.

• The Result. 5 months later, as of May 2017, NASWA and Direct Employers estimate that 30% - 45%

of all applicants to employers are now sourced through LinkedIn.

Labor Market Information

Labor Market Information for Job SeekersHelping members make better career decisions

Labor Market Information for Job SeekersHelping members make better career decisions

Labor Market Information for PESHelping policymakers make informed decisions

WEF Human Capital Report

Change the way we measure human

capital to influence policy and

business

released in July 2016

Labor Market Information for PESWorld Economic Forum Report highlighted skills and talent flows

LinkedIn data

reveals that

understanding

human capital

at the actual

skills level is

crucial because

formal

qualifications alone

are often

insufficiently

meaningfulData from LinkedIn’s Economic Graph makes it

possible to visualize the inflow and outflow

of human capital between countries ... identify the specific skillsets countries are gaining and

losing in the global marketplace for talent.

We look forward to working with IDB and the countries

and organizations represented at the conference today.

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