A New Application from LinkedIn.com – Research made easier

I'm very impressed with at least one of the new applications that are in BETA form on LinkedIn.  This one allows users to scroll over the company name listed by your connections or prospective connections – if the company is part of the LinkedIn/Business Week/S&P database, vast amounts of information will be revealed! 

These Company Profiles offer a veritable feast of data that career changers and job seekers need to know and use to prepare their "mini business plan," for example:

• Company headquarters mailing address and contact information
• Link to website
• Common job titles
• Top schools from which employees are recruited
• Median age of employees
• Gender breakdown
• Recent jobs posted on LinkedIn
• NYSE information

From the social media folks at LinkedIn, you'll find a list of employees, new hires, and those recently promoted who are LinkedIn. Useful data that is consolidated and easy to access can be surprisingly hard to find in this Internet-Age.  See this example from Shopzilla