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LinkedIn adapts to job seeking while social distancing – Source CNET Internet News

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The coronavirus pandemic has hit the US job market hard, forcing business to close and a historic 21 million of people to file for unemployment since the middle of March. And though the number of new filings have begun to slow in recent weeks, the unemployment rate in June was 11.1%. The same period last year it was just 3.7%.

With so many people looking for a new job in an age of social distancing, you might think that a company like LinkedIn has seen changes in how both job seekers and employers are communicating. And you’d be correct. Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn’s global head of Product, recently sat down with VidCon’s…

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