How to Change the World: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn - 0 views
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Kirk Henry on 26 Jul 09# The average number of LinkedIn connections for people who work at Google is forty-seven. # The average number for Harvard Business School grads is fifty-eight, so you could skip the MBA, work at Google, and probably get most of the connections you need. Later, you can hire Harvard MBAs to prepare your income taxes. # People with more than twenty connections are thirty-four times more likely to be approached with a job opportunity than people with less than five. # All 500 of the Fortune 500 are represented in LinkedIn. In fact, 499 of them are represented by director-level and above employees. # According to my inside sources, the person with the most pending LinkedIn invitations is...Guy Kawasaki. (Though I'm not sure if I should be proud or ashamed of this factoid.)