In recent months, employers have been increasingly using LinkedIn as an efficient means to find employees. Recently the company released its services to China as it begins to execute its plans to offer a hiring platform to the international community. Its hiring business, Talent Solutions, went up 45% in the last quarter.
See "Hiring Business Drives LinkedIn?s Revenue Beat", Arathy S Nair and Lehar Maan, Reuters, October 30, 2014