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LinkedIn and similar professional networks have become increasingly important for modern-day job seekers. Just how important has LinkedIn become today? A new study by CV and resume writing service attempted to find out. The research found that job applicants with an extensive LinkedIn profile were 71 percent more likely to get a callback for a job interview than candidates without any LinkedIn profile. The field experiment was undertaken between October 2018 and March 2019 and involved 24,570 fictitious resumes being submitted to job openings on a range of job search websites like Indeed and Glassdoor.

While a third of the resumes did not contain a link to the applicant's LinkedIn profile, another third linked to a "bare-bones" profile with the final third having a comprehensive profile. The latter received a callback rate of 13.5 percent which is 71 percent higher than the callback rate of 7.9 percent for applicants without any LinkedIn profile. The study categorized jobs as entry-level, mid-level or managerial level. It found that as the job level increased, the callback rates fell, suggesting that the importance of the LinkedIn profile fell.