LinkedIn used to offer a pretty passive experience: Put your resume on the professional social networking site and hope it catches a recruiter's eye. But LinkedIn isn't resting on its laurels, especially when it comes to mobile—the network is making the job-hunting experience a little less stressful with a new update for iOS and Android to let you fill out job applications on the go.
LinkedIn overhauled its mobile apps in April and made it easier to search for jobs in July, but you couldn't submit any in-app resumes.
"Our 'Jobs you may be interested in' feature has been a huge hit with job hunters and even professionals who may not be looking," LinkedIn associate product manager Vaibhav Goel wrote in a Monday blog post. "As a result of our highly personalized job recommendations in the mobile feed, we're seeing members who never view jobs on the desktop, viewing and saving jobs on mobile."
To capitalize on that growth, the network decided to add a mobile feature that lets you apply for jobs with your LinkedIn profile.
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