LinkedIn is testing Student Voices, which lets users post short-videos to their Campus Playlist and appears on top of their Home feed, for academy students in US.
Users will investigate their own school’s slideshow or field Playlists of different universities. The videos disappear from the list once per week and keep visible on the user’s profile permanently in their Recent Activity tab.
The feature is just out there to school students within the USA, for the nonce and a user will solely post videos and not photos.
The purpose of testing this feature is to induce students to showcase their educational experiences like exhibitions, internships, fairs, comes and a lot of to make a powerful profile with skilled events, so they grow their network and don’t go unseen by potential employers and sander the achievement method.
Videos denote on Student Voices would have the student’s university brand embedded and also the users will add text they need to beside hashtags like OnCampus and a lot of.
LinkedIn is additionally being bashed by numerous “critics” to duplicate Stories and making an attempt to remain “young”. however as users across social media post Stories of their daily happenings like partying, ingestion out and don’t very get something productive out of it, posting educational experiences might a minimum of facilitate them get employment and let the recruiter understand a ‘professional’ version of them.
The feature is presently restricted to USA however could also be additional unrolled once it gains traction