{"id":538,"date":"2017-09-21T15:49:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T10:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.orgzit.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2022-10-28T05:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T09:52:49","slug":"angellist-vs-linkedin-where-does-actual-talent-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orgzit.com\/blog\/angellist-vs-linkedin-where-does-actual-talent-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"AngelList V\/S LinkedIn \u2013 Where Does Actual Talent Lie?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talent o talent! Where art thou?<\/p>\n

With businesses getting more diverse everyday, there has been an incongruous and disproportional growth in the number of business listing directories. But these platforms came up with a rather impressive number of ways to get these existing businesses more business.\u00a0AngelList & LinkedIn are two platform which are being extensively used by recruiters to hire talent. But where does the actual talent lie?<\/p>\n

This article will tell you how LinkedIn and Angel List have come out as leaders (or maybe not both) in the long list of directories. If you are really active on medium, you might be already familiar with the fact that both these platforms have been making headlines since last year \u2013 but unfortunately for different reasons.<\/p>\n

In February 2015, Angel List announced that startups raised over $160 million in capital on its platform; LinkedIn stock took a huge dive and erased approximately $10bn in company value after releasing its earning report in the same FY.<\/p>\n

As a SaaS marketer, I am the point of contact to people in several startups who are looking for solutions to boost their team productivity as well as hire passionate and technology-driven people to join their team. After a cheerful conversation with a few, I realized that most of them tend to list their jobs on the two giants that we have been talking about.<\/p>\n

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Pretty direct way of saying – Let’s connect!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The tech talent wars are heated and competitive. There are a large number of startups with shiny new rounds of funding head-hunting for new, young, and fresh talent with higher packages and equity in exchange for their time and energy. Most startups fall short of having full-fledged HR or recruitment departments. If you talk about touching first base, Angel List definitely does a better job with its amazing service of connecting a potential employee and interested startup for free.<\/em><\/p>\n

TL\/DR? Get a quick overview here –<\/p>\n