LinkedIn Provides Tips on How to Maximize Career Resilience by Building Your LinkedIn Network

How important is your professional network in determining your future opportunities, and providing career resilience – which has become increasingly important over the past 12 months? To glean insight into this, LinkedIn recently analyzed a randomized sample of three million LinkedIn members from across the world, in order to determine how their LinkedIn connections and activity have facilitated job transitions and developments. LinkedIn’s research focused the relationship between people’s LinkedIn connection graph and career mobility – i.e. how quickly somebody moves into their next job.  Factoring in a range of variables, LinkedIn found that among users who share similar demographics, educational backgrounds and professional experience: Members with at least 13 connections from companies other than their current employer, are 22.9% faster in transitioning to their next job than those who do not. Members who are a part of at least one group on LinkedIn are 8.6% faster in transitioning to their next job than those who are not a member of any groups. Members who follow at least 5 organizations on LinkedIn are 7.1% faster in transitioning to their next job than those who do not. ​In some ways, this makes perfect sense – if you’re more actively engaged in establishing…
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