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- Re: Social network website reaches a hire level: LinkedIn uses its own who-knows-whom tools to recruit a CEO.
By: David Allen
Date: May 14, 2007 2:42 PM - Re: Social network website reaches a hire level: LinkedIn uses its own who-knows-whom tools to recruit a CEO.
By: David Allen
Date: May 11, 2007 2:47 PM
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11 May 2007
Social network website reaches a hire level: LinkedIn uses its own who-knows-whom tools to recruit a CEO.
This story (excerpts below) has a nice, recursive, quality.
Social network website reaches a hire level
LinkedIn uses its own who-knows-whom tools to recruit a CEO.
By Alex Pham, Times Staff Writer
May 7, 2007
Dan Nye landed a job as chief executive of a hot Silicon Valley company without even dusting off his resume.
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Nye was an executive vice president at Advent Software Inc. when Reid Hoffman, chairman of social-networking company LinkedIn Corp., came calling. Hoffman hadn't found him through a headhunter or a classifieds site but through LinkedIn's vast who-knows-whom online network.
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Hoffman had been looking for someone to run the Palo Alto company he founded, which is like MySpace.com for professionals — people can fill out profile pages, then connect for sales leads, expertise or job prospects. A venture capitalist he knew recommended Nye.
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Not until after he was hired did Nye discover that Hoffman had made dozens of reference checks — without asking Nye for a single name. He found them through LinkedIn.
All Hoffman had needed were the names of the companies where Nye had worked and the years he was there. Hoffman ran that information through LinkedIn's member profiles, finding dozens of people who had overlapped with the prospective hire (members can also search by college attended and by job title). He fired off e-mails and phone calls to numerous people and talked extensively with 27 of Nye's former colleagues.
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As he weighed the job, Nye turned the tables on his recruiters. He studied up on LinkedIn through its own online tools.
"I was trying to decide whether I wanted to be part of this company," he said.
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"We now live in a world where it's just not hard to find out about people," [Nye] said.
Posted by David Lazer at May 11, 2007 11:50 AM
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Comments
This seems to fit with speculations in a blog entry back in March.
Perhaps the best description for sites like LinkedIn, or Xing, is as a ‘business connection’ site, rather than as a ‘social networking' site.
Posted by: David Allen at May 11, 2007 2:47 PM
And yes, it does have a nice, recursive quality. The observation puts us in the 'right mode.'
Posted by: David Allen at May 14, 2007 2:42 PM