Members who list  skills on their LinkedIn profiles receive an average of 13 times more profile views than those who don’t. That fact alone underscores the importance of making your profile shine with a comprehensive list of professional skills and expertise. There are more than 45,000 standardized skills to choose from to spruce up your profile (we recently added a thousand new ones). To help you think about what skills to add, we wanted to provide an inside look at the trends…

LinkedIn’s vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Facilitating economic empowerment is a big task that will require bold thinking by smart, passionate individuals and groups. Today, we’re kicking off an initiative that aims to encourage this type of big thinking: the LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge. The LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge is an idea that emerged from the development of the Economic Graph, a digital mapping of the global…

All day long we tolerate stuff we know is dumb because “that’s just the way it is.” We don’t have the time to come up with solutions, or don’t own the problem. But what if we could ask the world’s brightest minds in business how they would fix the broken things we all know should — and can — be? That’s just what we’ve done for this LinkedIn series, “Let’s Fix It.” We asked more than 60 Influencers to identify a…