The world's largest professional social network LinkedIn has launched the Czech version of its website. Czech users are now able to choose their mother tongue right from the homepage, LinkedIn informed in a press release.
In addition to publishing CVs and the possibility to communicate in professionally oriented groups, LinkedIn is more and more used by HR professionals to find talents or by companies to target their marketing campaigns. Czechs currently represent 250,000 users of the total 135 million LinkedIn users. Most of them are professionals from the fields of IT, telecommunications and banking.
The Eurepean chief of LinkedIn Ariel Eckstein confirmed that Czechs are among the most active users in Europe. The Czech language version should help them navigate the network more easily and gain better access to both local and international expertise in their fields.
In 2011 LinkedIn added Swedish, Russian, Romanian and Turkish. Czech is the first new language in 2012. In addition to Czech, LinkedIn is now available in English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Dutch.
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