Monetising job seeking by LinkedIn

Not sure how much money this will make for LinkedIn. I can't see the benefit of spending up to $50 per month to help recruiters find me? Here are the "so called" benefits;

Get noticed by recruiters and hiring managers with a Job Seeker Badge¹ WOW - a badge???!!!? Really? For me? If you're currently employed do you want your current employer to know you're actively seeking a role?

Zero in on $100K plus jobs with detailed salary information² What if you don't make 100k? And are there really that many companies that release detailed confidential information about their remuneration structure

Move to the top of the list as a Featured Applicant Is this confirming that recruiters are bad at handling applications and reaching out to candidates?

Contact anyone directly with InMail --They claim that 5 inmails are worth $50, which I can't understand. If the person's details are not on their profile, all you need to do is join a group they're already in and you can message them through the common affiliation

Who's Viewed My Profile: Get the full list This is only useful if the people who looked at your profile have their profile configured in a way to identify themselves when looking at profiles. You could also argue that this is worthless as if your profile was sufficiently interesting, they would have reached out to you anyway!

My advice would be to spend a little time ensuring your profile is as solid as possible with the right level of information according to your experience and spend the $50 on something nice

Bye Bye Blog

Way too much going on to blog anymore. Check me out on Linkedin at http://ie.linkedin.com/in/noelreidy and on Twitter @noelreidy

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Worlds top 50 most attractive Employers

http://universumglobal.com/IDEAL-Companies-Rankings/Global-Top-50-Rankings Global Top 50 Business Company Ranking 2009 Google 1 PricewaterhouseCoopers 2 Microsoft 3 Goldman Sachs 4 Ernst & Young 5 Procter & Gamble 6 J.P. Morgan 7 KPMG 8 McKinsey & Company 9 Deloitte 10 The Boston Consulting Group 11 BMW 12 Coca-Cola 13 L'Oréal 14 Morgan Stanley 15 Sony 16 IBM 17 Johnson & Johnson 18 Deutsche Bank 19 General Electric 20 Citigroup 21 HSBC 22 Accenture 23 Nestlé 24 Credit Suisse 25 Bain & Company 26 Unilever 27 UBS 28 Nokia 29 Intel 30 Esso/ExxonMobil 31 Kraft Foods 32 Shell 33 Hewlett-Packard 34 Mars (Masterfoods) 35 Pfizer 36 Siemens 37 Philips 38 Oracle 39 Bayer 40 Philip Morris 41 DHL 42 BP 43 Bosch 44 Cisco 45 Daimler 46 Ericsson 47 ABB 48 Novartis 49 Schlumberger 50

Global Top 50 Engineering

Company	Ranking 2009
Google	1
Microsoft	2
IBM	3
BMW	4
Intel	5
General Electric	6
Sony	7
Siemens	8
Shell	9
Procter & Gamble	10
Johnson & Johnson	11
Hewlett-Packard	12
Cisco	13
Esso/ExxonMobil	14
McKinsey & Company	15
Schlumberger	16
BP	17
L'Oréal	18
Nokia	19
Accenture	20
Coca-Cola	21
Philips	22
Goldman Sachs	23
Nestlé	24
Pfizer	25
Bosch	26
The Boston Consulting Group	27
J.P. Morgan	28
Deloitte	29
Morgan Stanley	30
GlaxoSmithKline	31
Ericsson	32
Ernst & Young	33
ABB	34
Bayer	35
Unilever	36
PricewaterhouseCoopers	37
Deutsche Bank	38
HSBC	39
Kraft Foods	40
Bain & Company	41
Citigroup	42
Alcatel-Lucent	43
Daimler	44
Novartis	45
Mars (Masterfoods)	46
KPMG	47
Credit Suisse	48
DHL	49
UBS	50