Joined the 500+ Contacts on LinkedIn

Posted by Vic Okezie on May 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment

I have been spending quite sometime on LinkedIn these days – and have been very impressed at the volume of profiles on there.

Growing rapidly, especially with this current economic downtime, LinkedIn now attracts over 40 Million professionals in 200 countries.

Mostly used by web savvy recruiters and business owners, are now using LinkedIn to expand their networking and International appeal. The beauty of LinkedIn is, the more contacts you have, the more you can view specific kind of professionals. Hence, when I had 100 contacts, I might only see around 1000 results for some searches.

Somehow, I have exceeded the 500+ contacts and counting (connect with me on LinkedIn), and now get hundreds of thousands of profiles when I do searches related to current projects I am working on. Brilliant!

Current limit on LinkedIn is 30,000 contacts. I think my target for July 31st 2009, will be 5000 contacts, i.e 20 Million connections in my network. Catch me if you can …

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One Response to “Joined the 500+ Contacts on LinkedIn”

  1. Vic Okezie » Summer – The Sun, Sand and The Sea - Online Recruitment, Recruitment Websites, Job boards, Recruitment Advertising, Recruitment 2.0 says:
    August 13, 2009 at 12:55 pm

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