Affinity Circles’ Blog

Today the Texas Bar announced that in May of 2009 their Texas Bar Circle community surpassed 10,000 registered users.

According to the Texas Bar’s article:

“The trend line of registrations for the first half of 2009 matches lawyer adoption of LinkedIn…”

Read more about the Texas Bar Circle’s exciting milestone here!

In these tough economic times, inCircle members, both young and old, are very often turning to their fellow community members for help in career advancement. We at Affinity Circles are working hard to make inCircle a place where your members can go to learn about the latest career opportunities available to them.

The connections that your members have—whether they be with old friends from decades past, or new friends made through inCircle—are invaluable and often lead to opportunities that can’t be found or obtained anywhere else on the web. Our goal at Affinity Circles is to provide your members with a safe and secure environment in which to exchange these opportunities. Our data has shown that over the past several months, the most popular and sought after opportunities across all inCircle communities are job and career advancement opportunities.

Did you know that in 2009 thus far…

-          41% of all content created within inCircle communities has been job opportunities.

-          61% of people who have actively responded to inCircle content have responded or expressed interest in a job opportunity.

-          Nearly 370,000 inCircle members viewed job opportunities and postings within their communities.

There are multitudes of ways in which job opportunities can enter inCircle:

• Through fellow members – Members can post jobs easily and free of charge to other members in one of two ways:
  • As a more traditional job posting, replete with a job description, company information, and a link to send in a resume.
  • As a targeted announcement that will appear on target users’ home pages and in email digests.
• Through inCircle Jobs – Companies can, for a small fee, post individual job postings within your community that appear under the Careers tab. Interested members can send in their resumes.
• Through a Company Profile – Affinity Circles has partnered with many top-tier, Fortune 1000 companies in an effort to connect your members with premier job opportunities. A member can express interest in any of these companies, after which the company can contact the member if his background is a good fit.

If you’re an inCircle administrator, we would encourage you to highlight inCircle’s robust career networking functionality to your members. Placing links to your inCircle community on your careers site or LinkedIn group, if you have them, would be a great place to start. If you work with companies that actively recruit your members, directing them to inCircle to post jobs would be a powerful way for them to draw attention to their postings.

- The Affinity Circles Team