LinkedIn launches skills assessment platform
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LinkedIn launches skills assessment platform
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LinkedIn introduced a new skills assessment platform to enable workers to validate their skills. The company announced the platform, LinkedIn Skill Assessments, in a blog post.
People who pass the assessment in the 70th percentile or above will get a badge to display on their profile in LinkedIn Recruiter and LinkedIn Jobs. If they don’t pass, they can keep the results private.
Assessments will include a range of skills from coding languages like C++ to design software such as Adobe Photoshop to business tools like Microsoft Excel.
Separately, Reuters reported the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals allowed a company called hiQ Labs Inc. to continue scraping data from LinkedIn, Reuters reported hiQ makes software to help employers determine which employees will quit or stay. The court’s decision upheld a lower court’s injunction against LinkedIn to continue allowing hiQ access to publicly available data from member profiles.
However, in their ruling, the judges wrote that the decision on scraping does not resolve the companies’ legal dispute.