Tinder - Like concept featured in the Professional Social Media LinkedIn

Budding mobile app developers, you missed your chance to be the pioneers of such unique application conceptualising on social and professional amalgamation.

Lately this particular social media platform gained a lot of momentum, offering a common platform connecting young and rising professionals around the world. Microsoft owned social network site, LinkedIn, has covered nearly 500 million users, successfully exploring the different professional fields and new emerging markets. A report by Techcrunch, revealed that LinkedIn is about to roll out a brand new service for its users, inspired by the basic concept on which Tinder works. This brand new Tinder styled LinkedIn feature entails pairing off LinkedIn users, looking for mentoring in specific areas, with the potential and fitting mentor.

Before we indulge into this brand new concept of LinkedIn, it is imperative to understand how Tinder functions which inspired the social media site for young professionals kick along the similar line.

So, what is Tinder?? What do you know about the Tinder-like feature inspiring LinkedIn???

Forbes tagged it as ‘The world’s hottest application’; Tinder has successfully matched over 10 billion users. Today, Tinder is a lot more than just a simple dating application. It has emerged as a wide common platform connecting strangers to socialize with one another. You can meet new people, connect to locals or your co-passengers while travelling and get familiar with persons, whom, otherwise, you never would have met. Establishing new connections is that simple. All you need is to either ‘Swipe Right’ to ‘Like’ someone or ‘Swipe Left’ to pass. If you acquire a ‘Like Back’, then it is a ‘Match’. You can start off with a conversation online and take it further beyond your smart phone.

How does it work??

Already explained in the prior paragraph, mobile application developer conceptualised Tinder as a simple and fun filled application. The basic functionalities are quite easy to master and you can end up having a whole range of followers waiting to match up with you. To indicate that you are highly interested in someone just tap on the blue star button beneath their photos or on their profile.

This is the basic concept underlying ‘mentor match in LinkedIn’s application’.

Allow me to elucidate this particular concept.

So, how does this Tinder-style LinkedIn feature works??

LinkedIn’s new application seeks to mobilize the entire user community to establish matches between mentees and mentors alike. It is a fact that most of us venture outside our companies or respective universities to find a mentor to guide us in advancing their career.  Internal analysis of LinkedIn’s user actions revealed that 89% of senior leaders on this platform are quite interested in giving advice. Among those young professionals, seeking advice and exploring new career options, are the ones who prefer this site to connect with the right person to discuss such related topics and get mentored.

Quite a useful concept don’t you think??? The concept also functions smoothly.

There are few parameters that both mentors and mentees need to master up to establish connection either within your network, area or from your Alma mater.

Similar to its motivator, this tinder style LinkedIn feature allows mentors and mentees to exchange messages once the match is established and mentees can get useful feed from their respective mentors. The mentees can swipe Right or Left to either select or reject the list of prospective mentors and create perfect match panning across their profiles.

There is a list of conditions that the young user needs to observe to establish a mentor relationship.

1. Do not expect feedback instantly.
2. Do prepare clear agendas for meetings with your mentor.
3. Do not expect explicit advice and direction.
4. Do not react badly and be patient to criticism.

However, there are few drawbacks underlying mentor match application in LinkedIn.

There is no guarantee that the mentor relationship will continue. Either side can put a stop to the relationship at any point of time.

The service is available only in San Francisco and Australia for now.

Wrapping Up

The social media site for young professionals have reinvented the Tinder like pair matching concept in its brand new mentor match application to offer more opportunities to young professionals and students to get a proper insight into many career opportunities befitting their professional profiles. This Tinder like LinkedIn concept truly gives the site a professional outlook, a perfect platform catering for budding corporate. After all, it is highly crucial to establish strong connections that will eventually bear fruit in the long run and boost up your career in more ways than one.

We are hoping to get benefit out of this feature soon enough once it gets acquitted with other nations other than San Francisco and Australia as of now.

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