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  • Building and maintaining the skills taxonomy that powers LinkedIn's Skills Graph

    March 21, 2023

    Co-authors: Sofus Macskássy, Carol Jin, Shiyong Lin, Xiaomin Wei, and Michael O’Neill When we think of skills, we think of the unique knowledge, expertise, and abilities that each of us has. At LinkedIn, we see skills as more – we see them as a way to level the playing field in the labor market because they represent what a member is capable of – not where they...

  • Building LinkedIn's Skills Graph to Power a Skills-First World

    November 30, 2022

    Co-authors: Sofus Macskássy, Yi Pan, Ji Yan, Yanen Li, Di Zhou, Shiyong Lin As industries rapidly evolve, so do the skills necessary for success. Skill sets for jobs globally have changed by 25% since 2015 and this number is expected to double by 2027. Yet, we’ve long relied on insufficient and unequal signals when evaluating talent and predicting success - who...

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    Matching external companies to LinkedIn’s Economic Graph at scale

    April 25, 2022

    Co-authors: Remi Mir, Tianhao Lu, Xiaoqiang Luo, Yunpeng Xu Introduction LinkedIn’s Economic Graph is rich with nodes representing different entities, one type of which is organizations. Each organization has an ID and a Company Page on LinkedIn.com. There are multiple business benefits associated with being able to map external organizational records to such...

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    How our AI is helping members navigate the Great Reshuffle

    October 27, 2021

    Co-authors: Liangjie Hong, Alexandre Patry, Benjamin Le, and Fei Chen Spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic and the many changes it has...

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    How to build an effective professional network on LinkedIn:...

    May 4, 2021

    Co-authors: YinYin Yu, Guillaume Saint Jacques, and Paul Matsiras Introduction In 2019, LinkedIn announced an initiative to close the...

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    How we mapped the “skills genome” of emerging jobs

    December 10, 2019

    In today’s newly-published Emerging Jobs Report, we introduce the “skills genome methodology” to highlight the unique skills for...