The tool Internal Job Recommendations optimizes intern mobility programs.

LinkedIn has over 277 million users globally. The social network has an area called Talent Solutions, dedicated to offering solutions to companies in order to draw and keep the better talent.

A few days ago, they released Internal Job Recommendations, a tool which increases employees’ consciousness about professional opportunities in their own companies, placing job postings for their employees who are within the network or are starting to search externally. Internal job recommendations appear through LinkedIn, as well as in e-mails related to the “employments that might interest you” section, or even in companies intranet thanks to the “Internal Job Recommendations” widget.

This tool appears as a result of a research made by LinkedIn in which a high percentage of workers at a global level are either looking for a job or willing to talk with recruiters about new opportunities, despite being satisfied with their current jobs. The main reason for employees leaving their companies is being able to reach higher professional development opportunities.

On the other hand, most companies over estimate the visibility of their internal job posting programs among employees. Besides, when employees leaving a company are surveyed, half of them state that they would have stayed in the company if they had had an internal position that better adjusted to their skills.

Most clients who participated in the pilot program of Internal Job Recommendations observed an increase that was over two times the number of employees participating in their own internal mobility programs. For example, the company Johnson Controls had a participation increase of 350% and, during the past month, more employees requested an internal job post through LinkedIn than those who did so through the internal system of the company. According to Mike Ganiere, Talent Sourcing and Attraction Manager of the company, “this new model attracts our employees in the right moment”.