A surprising number of college students don’t use the professional-social network. Here’s why that’s a mistake — especially for young entrepreneurs.
As if making the transition from student life to the working world wasn’t hard enough.
In March, the unemployment rate among 18- to 29-year-olds was 11.7 percent, more than four percentage points higher than the national average of 7.6 percent, according to the millennial-advocacy group Generation Opportunity.
But here’s an interesting twist: Nearly half of the college students surveyed in a new report on millennials out today aren’t using the professional-networking site, LinkedIn. That survey called “The Student Employment Study,” which was produced in by Gen-Y research firm Millennial Branding and AfterCollege, an online career network for college students and recent grads, found that 46 percent of students don’t use LinkedIn.
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