LinkedIn Members with Skills

[Irina Shamaeva]

LinkedIn has introduced the Skills field, which, unlike some other fields, belongs to a person's public profile. The way skills are phrased, they are easy to include in an an X-ray search.

This is great news; however, LinkedIn has now to persuade its users to fill out the section. So far, out of about 90MLN profiles, look how many members have their skills defined. It might be that Google is not indexing LinkedIn very well. Bing picks more results - but still a small %.

If you want to be found by your skills, this is a great time to fill them out - you will be one of the few for a while.