Apply for a job in one click with 'Apply with LinkedIn'

While the world is still atwitter with the excitement surrounding Google+, the team at LinkedIn has been gearing up to release an exciting new feature: Apply with LinkedIn. This new plug-in will allow employers to add a button to their websites that lets applicants throw their hat in the ring via their LinkedIn profile. Employers are given access to LinkedIn users’ full profiles, including resume information, recommendations, status updates, linked Twitter and blog feeds, and whatever other information the user has chosen to include.

Apply with LinkedIn might make you think twice about the information you include on your LinkedIn profile (maybe time to change that profile pic?), but will certainly make it easier to apply for jobs with the early-adopting companies that use the plug-in. Considering that nonprofit organizations employ about 10 percent of Americans, news of this feature’s availability will likely be music to the ears of nonprofit staffers responsible for recruitment.

Despite being less-talked-about than Facebook, Twitter, or even Google+, LinkedIn can be a dynamic tool for nonprofit organizations – and with staff members devoted to developing services for nonprofits, we can look forward to the site improving as time goes on.

If you’re on LinkedIn, you can connect with NPower by becoming part of our new group (recently started post re-brand). We’re excited to share a lot of great resources for our nonprofit colleagues on the world’s largest professional network.

- Mandi Moshay