LinkedIn helps you find a second Eric Schmidt, Warren Buffett or Oprah Winfrey

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The social network for professionals LinkedIn launches a new service that allows an employer to find an employee based on a number of criteria provided by the employer. In other words, the service will help find a named employee who is needed by a specific company, write Vedomosti. Everything works quite simply - to search for a person with a certain mindset and abilities, you need to select his prototype, pointing to the profile of another person.

“In search of people whose characteristics correspond to a real employee, the service analyzes the functionality of the position, location, skills and education of the original person in order to build a search chain and highlight a resume of similar professionals,” says Eddie Vivas, head of the talented recruitment division of LinkedIn.

If an employee with a certain set of characteristics is not found, then the social network can develop a profile with the desired description, and suggest which region should look for a person with the necessary set of skills.
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Interestingly, when hiring an employee for a recommendation, he works for the company longer than employees hired through job ads or career sites. According to the company Deloitte, about 46% of employees hired on the recommendation of employees have been working in a new place for more than a year. And among employees hired through ads or other means, 22 and 33% of employees work more than a year. For three years, the company remains 42% of the recommended employees, 14% - found through ads and 32% - hired through career sites.