LinkedIn crosses 100 mn members in India, its 2nd largest market

Professional networking platform LinkedIn on Wednesday stated it has crossed 100 million members in India, a 56 per cent development in its member base during the last three years in the nation.

India has solidified its place because the second largest market for Microsoft-owned LinkedIn globally.

The largest share of members in India are from software program & IT, adopted by manufacturing, company companies (consulting, accounting and HR), finance, and training industries, the corporate knowledgeable.

“Our 100 million member group in India is utilizing the platform extensively for greater than jobs now. They are over-indexing on networking, messaging, and studying greater than every other area globally,” stated Ashutosh Gupta, India Country Manager, LinkedIn.

“As we glance to welcome the following 100 million professionals, we purpose to be a real accomplice in the lives of pros as India continues to construct a skills-first labour market,” he added.

As jobs and profession paths turn out to be more and more non-linear, corporations in India are adopting a skills-first method to hiring with greater than 50 per cent of recruiters on LinkedIn explicitly utilizing expertise information to fill their roles, which is greater than the worldwide common of 45 per cent.

In 2022 alone, professionals in India spent 4.6 million hours studying on the platform, which is sort of 2x the training hours spent on LinkedIn in the US.

“Despite powerful macroeconomic situations, studying in-demand expertise can be vital for professionals to turn out to be extra employable in any job market and attain their profession targets in 2023,” stated the platform.

This yr’s listing of LinkedIn‘s prime 10 most in-demand expertise in India options administration (1st spot), communication (4), and gross sales (10).

Tech expertise comparable to software program improvement (2), SQL (3), and Java (5). Leadership (6) and analytical expertise (8) additionally characteristic on the listing as necessary tender expertise wanted throughout numerous job capabilities.

(With inputs from IANS)