LinkedIn is expanding the Premium experience with perks that go beyond job search. Eligible members now get three months of complimentary YouTube Premium and Spotify, framing Premium as a subscription for learning, focus, and staying sharp in a fast-changing world of work. What’s changing This update comes alongside Premium’s growing use of AI-powered profile tools, …
LinkedIn is making a major shift in how it develops early-career product talent. The company is ending its traditional Associate Product Manager (APM) program and replacing it with a new Associate Product Builder track – designed to train hires to code, design, and manage products end-to-end. What’s changing Instead of preparing early PMs mainly for …
On 5 December, a Cloudflare outage briefly disrupted several major services, including LinkedIn, alongside other large platforms. Cloudflare reported issues affecting dashboards and APIs, followed by gradual recovery – but not before users across the web felt the ripple effect. What happened This wasn’t an isolated incident. It was the second global outage in two …
As LinkedIn continues to grow as a trusted professional platform, it is increasingly becoming a target for sophisticated phishing attacks. According to reporting by Bleeping Computer, scammers are now exploiting LinkedIn’s comment system to distribute fake “reply” messages that impersonate the platform itself. These deceptive comments appear directly under LinkedIn posts and warn users about …
The pace of higher education has changed dramatically over the past decade. Today’s students are expected to manage full course loads, research projects, extracurricular activities, part-time work, and an increasingly competitive internship and job market, often all at the same time. Academic success alone is no longer enough. Career readiness is now an integral part …
The way people discover information, build careers, and evaluate credibility online is changing faster than most brands and professionals realize. Over the past year, LinkedIn has quietly moved from being “just” a professional network to something far more consequential: a platform where visibility, trust, and authority intersect in an AI-driven internet. Three developments from the …
A wave of user experiments has sparked debate about whether LinkedIn’s feed favors male profiles. Several users reported significant performance differences when switching profile gender presentation, with claims of dramatically higher impressions on the same content – amplified through the #wearthepants hashtag. The controversy in brief The reports suggest that identical posts may receive different …
LinkedIn’s 2025 Green Skills Report highlights a growing mismatch between sustainability hiring demand and the supply of workers with the right skills. The headline insight: green hiring is rising much faster than green skill development, creating a structural workforce bottleneck for climate goals. What the report says Green hiring is growing nearly twice as fast …
UK intelligence agency MI5 has issued a fresh warning that Chinese intelligence services are using LinkedIn to approach, cultivate, and potentially recruit political figures. The alert, shared with UK lawmakers, frames the activity as large-scale outreach designed to gather information and build long-term influence. What MI5 is warning about According to the warning, outreach is …
Timing remains one of the most crucial factors for maximizing engagement on LinkedIn. A recent analysis by Sprout Social, based on billions of engagements across hundreds of thousands of profiles, reveals that posting schedules can significantly impact visibility and interaction rates for brands and creators. Weekdays Generate the Highest Engagement The data shows that Tuesday …
