Comments on: LinkedIn looks to premium services for profit

Social-networking site will launch premium services next year. Among possibilities: helping recruiters do "back door" reference checks.
Photo: Staffing executive uses LinkedIn

[brothe]

It's already been done!

This has already been done... there is a company called Hotgigs.com that has skill search and networking capability built into their network of employers, staffing firms and users. If you go to the site, you can see gigs, search for other people to network, and find a job if you are an independent! Look at their employer list too! Dell, Microsoft, IBM...

[Ubber geek]

find a job

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[arnneisp]

LinkedIn networking and LICM tool

You can't talk about LinkedIn without mentioning the LinkedIn Contacts Management tool.

This tool is a freeware to all MyLinkedInPowerForum members and LinkedIn users.

The tools give you the edge in using LinkedIn for business purposes. It downloads all your LinkedIn contacts details/requests/outstanding invitations to a personal database on your PC.

Then, with an easy to use GUI you can make smart selections and manipulations of the data and Email the selected group of contacts. You can do multi accept/reject of requests; you can resend multiple outstanding invitations or withdraw them and much more.

To download the LICM application:

Go to: www.megaas.co.nz
Select the Demos/Downloads page
Scroll down to the LinkedIn icon
Download the installation ZIP file.

Read the Readme file and register at the support forum:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MngLinkedIn/

Remember - there is a "payment" involved - you have to let at least 10 of your LinkedIn contacts know about the system....