World's Largest LinkedIn Group Breaks The 700,000 Member Mark
WireWalkersVA announced that their Group - 'Job Openings, Job Leads and Job Connections!' - has just exceeded the 700,000+ Member mark. It is poised to surpass the 1,000,000 Member milestone before the end of this year.
Online, February 28, 2012 (Newswire.com) - LinkedIn is the premier social networking site for professionals that was founded in 1993 and currently boasts well over 150 million users. LinkedIn Groups can be created by any Member and like minded members can join any Group they wish to based on their desired affiliations, interests and goals. LinkedIn Groups serve the important function of allowing members to discuss and network in a professional setting with peers. It also serves as an important vehicle whereby Members can promote their interests and/or seek opportunities.
As LinkedIn has grown dramatically in size and scale, individual Members have found that LinkedIn Groups are the premiere place to communicate with one's professional peers - and, the number of individuals both creating and joining Groups has increased dramatically. Currently, there are over 1,212,244 Groups on LinkedIn, a substantial increase from just a year earlier. The largest Groups which had about 200,000 Members a year ago now have over 700,000.
The 'Job Openings, Job Leads and Job Connections!' Group is a career and job based Group that has seen unprecedented growth and popularity since its inception 2 years ago on Memorial Day, May 25th, 2009. The Group focuses on providing its Members with career, networking and job opportunities.
The Group provides 20 Subgroups for Members to further target themselves - broken down either by geographic region, industry, occupation or special interest. These Subgroups themselves are many of the largest on LinkedIn.
As the Group has grown, it has become a central recruiting destination for recruiters, employers and human resources professionals of all types. In fact, the 'Human Resources' Subgroup itself contains over 35,000+ Members.
Although the job market and unemployment figures have been better recently, this has not slowed the growth of the Group. According to Peter Lee, CEO of WireWalkers, and the Co-Founder of the Group, 'The Group's unprecedented growth parallels the unemployment picture but not quite the way you'd think. Whether the unemployment figures are bad or good, we get a lot of individuals joining to network and to see what opportunities they can find. One might guess that our Group wouldn't be as relevant as the unemployment figures have gotten better but that hasn't proven to be true. When it's better, we see more jobs posted in our Group and a lot of new people join to see those postings and make those direct connections with the hiring gatekeepers.'
About WireWalkersVA
WireWalkersVA is based in New York, NY and was started by its CEO, Peter Lee and a dedicated team of business, marketing and social media advisors. On Memorial Day (May 25th, 2009), they created what has become the World's Largest LinkedIn Group - 'Job Openings, Job Leads and Job Connections!'. The Group is currently the largest of 1,212,244 Groups on LinkedIn and has over 700,003+ Members. Their website http://wirewalkersva.com/ provides business, marketing and social media resources in the form of free ebooks, podcasts, videos, blogs and business forum.