> 90% of the Application's Data are already in my LinkedIN... Why the heck do I have to fill it in again.
Why isn’t LinkedIn providing this info as a glob of structured JSON for pay to the ATS sellers?
Or just offering their own ATS for that matter? They could own the whole process from search (most recruiters just use LinkedIn anyway) to hire, as a springboard for expanding beyond there?
They could go the other way too: fill out the application and it generates a LinkedIn profile for you. When my gf worked there there was a push to expand LinkedIn beyond “professionals” to trades.
LinkedIn does have a jobs platform. I’m not an HR person, but the bits of it I used were pretty good. I liked the AI bit that auto-filtered-out people with nothing at all relevant on their resumes (which was pretty accurate from my spot checking).
These are all things that LinkedIn could and probably would do if it were its own company. But unfortunately it's owned by Microsoft, and there's just not enough revenue in these to justify it.
The purchase of LinkedIn made and makes no sense to me unless they increase its integration with other services. I know they are trying to integrate github and linkedin but that doesn't seem particularly useful or significant.
Why isn’t LinkedIn providing this info as a glob of structured JSON for pay to the ATS sellers?
Or just offering their own ATS for that matter? They could own the whole process from search (most recruiters just use LinkedIn anyway) to hire, as a springboard for expanding beyond there?
They could go the other way too: fill out the application and it generates a LinkedIn profile for you. When my gf worked there there was a push to expand LinkedIn beyond “professionals” to trades.