*NEWS* LinkedIn Announces New VP of People Operations Steve Cadigan has joinedLinkedIn as vice president of People Operations.

With over 21 years of global human resources experience in the US, Canada and Asia-Pacific, Cadigan has worked on acquisition integrations around the globe. Prior to joining LinkedIn, he served as vice president of HR at Electronic Arts where he was responsible for the Games Label group, with 2,500 employees and some $2B in revenue, as well as M&A integrations.

Cadigan helped build Cisco’s world class acquisition integration team from 1998 to 2002. He also held key HR leadership roles at PMC-Sierra, AMD, Fireman's Fund, and Esprit.

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Jobseekers have a new LinedIn help blog. But the tips and shortcuts that trainer and speaker Patrick O'Malley is offering will benefit recruiters, too.

In one of this first posts to LinkedIn Tips For Sales, Jobs, HR, O'Malley tells jobseekers to add common misspellings of their last name in case they are being sought by someone who doesn't have the spelling quite right.

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As layoffs continued to pound the economy in January, one beneficiary was job networking site LinkedIn. According to the latest January data from comScore, the LinkedIn’s U.S. unique visitors shot up 22 percent to 7.7 million, up from 6.3 million in December. Total minutes spent on the site doubled in January to 96.8 million, from 47.6 million in December. view article »

Reuters is reporting that LinkedIn has added some 13 million new members since the first of the year and is growing at the rate of almost one new member a second.

Other professional networks are also growing, Reuters says, the beneficiaries of a global recession that is pushing ever more workers to join sites that may help them find new jobs.

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LinkedIn has received $22.7 million in new funding from investors such as SAP Ventures, Goldman Sachs and McGraw-Hill. The funding – the first time that LinkedIn has taken money from strategic partners rather than venture capitalists – is part of a financing round that was first announced in June. At the time, LinkedIn said it had received $53 million from blue-chip venture capitalists such as Sequoia Capital and Bain Capital Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion. view article »

For the first time, millions of U.S. LinkedIn users can enjoy the benefits of job matching by leveraging their existing professional profiles. Users can import their profiles into Vitruva's system, where its patent-pending artificial intelligence engine matches the profiles with thousands of pre-qualified job opportunities. The matching is done instantly, confidentially, at no cost to job seekers. view article »

Geoff Peterson, managing principal of General Lead and editor of StaffBytes is providing a free LinkedIn Checklist of 55 tips, tricks and strategies for networking on LinkedIn. This checklist offers several ways to build your LinkedIn network, gain exposure on LinkedIn, utilize your LinkedIn network in and out of LinkedIn, connect with the right LinkedIn members, utilize search engines and tools to extend your LinkedIn network and more. view article »

Linked In has raised $53 million from Bain Capital Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and Bessemer Ventures. The investment values the business social network at just over $1 billion. view article »

Can LinkedIn (profile; site) really pull off a $1 billion funding round? As big as it is that's the number being tossed around on tech and VC blogs. view article »

Before you panic, this an April Fool's joke. But it's got just enough plausability that it's convinced more than a few folks that LinkedIn really is going to start charging everyone.

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