After One Year, 10 Million People Are Using LinkedIn’s Open Candidates

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The success of LinkedIn’s Open Candidates feature after a little more than one year proves that discretion is the better part of valor.

The professional network introduced Open Candidates in October 2016, with vice president of talent solutions and careers Dan Shapero saying in a blog post last October that the feature was a way for users to “privately” alert recruiters of their interest in new job opportunities, writing, “To enable the feature, simply turn sharing ‘on’ and fill in some brief information about the types of roles you are interested in.

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