It’s 10 a.m. My phone buzzes with a notification: “Check out today’s ideas for you.”

Since downloading the LinkedIn Students app, the other Converge interns and I have received daily updates on available roles and various companies hiring.

Here are our thoughts and observations on the app:

The role cards are one of the best parts.   

The role card gives students career ideas that fit their strengths and provides tons of information about that position. It covers various parts of the job title, including the description, median salary, jobs for the student to check out, alumni who have the same role, top companies and skills for the job title and similar roles in the field.

For students and graduates who know what they want to do as a career, but aren’t so sure what companies are right for them or how much money they will make, this part of the app is perfect.

It makes looking for careers easier.

This card suggests a company that would be a “great fit” based on past work experience and general career interests. It displays the company logo, name, type of work or department in the company and number of employees who work there. The bottom briefly states why the card was shown to you. “It is popular with graduates,” for example.

As with the other cards, you can save it for later. Using the app is quick and interactive. It makes looking for career options seem like less of a chore and more like browsing a social platform.

It’s relevant and simple.

The magic of LinkedIn Students is its simplicity. As you swipe, the app provides recommended reading. These readings populate after crawling your LinkedIn account and finding reading relevant to your interests, jobs, and skill set. You get a daily curated digest of interesting and relevant content to navigate your job hunt.

By saving articles, they are compiled into a list of recommended reading for later viewing. This is great for providing easy-to-digest, relevant information – something you can read over breakfast without spending time scrolling through different sources to find something relevant.

It’s good for networking.

Within the app, there’s a feature for alumni career relations. It focuses mainly on seniors and graduates in the workforce within your university network, making it a useful connection generator.

Finding people in your network could be useful if you’re trying to get your foot in the door at a new company and expand your network, especially in a job market where relationships and networking matter.

It isn’t cluttered.

In the last five slides, the app asks, “Would you consider doing this job?” It suggests one recently posted job that might be a good fit based on your interests and experience. It also shows people at the company who are alumni from your school and gives you the option to connect.
This is the extent of the app’s functionality, but it’s kept simple for a reason. By limiting functionality to a few specialized suggestions, it keeps the clutter out of your job hunt and reduces the overall stress of the process. The app makes looking for a job as simple as swiping – something students and recent graduates are familiar with already.

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