To help you find better career opportunities, job postings on LinkedIn will soon receive a makeover that includes additional details on hiring companies and their current employees. Credit: Mike Mozart LinkedIn will soon add more details and insights to its job postings, in an effort to find more fitting career opportunities for users. The move is designed to enhance job listings with details about a user’s connections within a hiring company; a list of LinkedIn applicants the organization went on to hire; and details on the people the job seeker would work with if they got the gig. LinkedIn Linked first rolled out the updates to a test pool of 10 percent of job postings in the United States, Canada, India, United Kingdom and Australia, and it will soon bring the new insights to a wider range of LinkedIn listings. The company says it plans to extend the new features to more countries early next year. [Related How-To: 4 simple LinkedIn tips to polish your profile] SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe A new “Meet the Team” feature shows job candidates a group of employees with similar roles at hiring companies; and “Company Insights” includes information about company growth rates, average tenure of employees, and top schools or companies they hired from in the past. LinkedIn says it will also surface connections in a more meaningful way to help job seekers network more effectively. For example, they’ll be able to reach out to contacts they may have within hiring companies directly from job posts. This “Your Connections” data is tailored to specific users, based on their LinkedIn networks. LinkedIn The details on company hiring trends, members with similar titles at hiring companies and total numbers of employees are pulled from the profiles of individuals who work for those organizations. As such, LinkedIn relies on its users to provide accurate data, and update it accordingly. However, the company says specialists will check company insights and information periodically to make sure trends and company numbers are accurate. “This is just the beginning of the ultimate jobs experience we aim to deliver to all job seekers on LinkedIn,” wrote Vidya Chandra, senior product manager, in a related blog post. Related content opinion Four questions for a casino InfoSec director By Beth Kormanik Sep 21, 2023 3 mins Media and Entertainment Industry Events Security brandpost Four Leadership Motions make leading transformative work easier The Four Leadership Motions can be extremely beneficial —they don’t just drive results among software developers, they help people make extraordinary progress wherever they lead. By Jason Fraser, Director, Product Management & Design, VMware Tanzu Labs, Public Sector Sep 21, 2023 5 mins IT Leadership feature The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far In 2022, the big AI story was the technology emerging from research labs and proofs-of-concept, to it being deployed throughout enterprises to get business value. This year started out about the same, with slightly better ML algorithms and improved d By Maria Korolov Sep 21, 2023 16 mins Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence opinion 6 deadly sins of enterprise architecture EA is a complex endeavor made all the more challenging by the mistakes we enterprise architects can’t help but keep making — all in an honest effort to keep the enterprise humming. By Peter Wayner Sep 21, 2023 9 mins Enterprise Architecture IT Strategy Software Development Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe