LinkedOut

LinkedOut, LinkedIn's younger brother

The operation is simple: the LinkedOut platform allows you to viralize candidate resumes on social networks to generate job opportunities. Each candidate is supported by a volunteer coach, from finding a job to integrating into a company.

Short courses allow candidates who wish to do so to acquire the missing skills and regain confidence. The community Entourage allows candidates to recharge their batteries and meet new people.

To test the idea, Entourage launched a first version of the platform in 2019 with 15 resumes available. Immediate success: resumes shared 120,000 times, 11 jobs found.

The first candidate was Kenny. Going through child welfare and home care, Kenny was looking for a job to end this complicated period. Thanks to the friend of a friend of Jean-Marc Potdevin, president of the Entourage network, he signed a permanent contract as a salesman.

He testifies: “I simply regained my dignity. A dignity that you leave when you are on the street.” Kenny, first LinkedOut candidate.
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Share it at the service of a change of scale

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After this first successful test in the summer of 2019, Entourage needed to take the next step: develop a website to scale up and support several hundred people on their path to employment. The challenge was that Entourage did not have the technical teams required to build this project.

That’s where Share it came in—a nonprofit that develops digital projects for social entrepreneurs free of charge. Share it collaborated with skills-based volunteering partners to help the Entourage team design and develop the new version of the LinkedOut website.

Several dedicated spaces were created:

- A public page allowing anyone to share CVs on social networks

- A recruiter area for posting job offers and accessing candidate profiles

- A candidate and coach area to track the job search journey

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Share it support in detail

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Share it designs and builds digital solutions for and with impact-driven organizations, tailored to their needs. To support nonprofits, Share it engages skills-based volunteering teams from consulting firms and IT services companies (ESNs). These teams are dedicated to projects supported by Share it—most of them full-time and over long periods (at least six months).

The LinkedOut project was scoped, developed, and deployed in one year and required 400 person-days of work.

Each Share it project brings together three types of stakeholders:

Skills-based volunteering teams: these teams are assembled based on the needs of each project. For LinkedOut, five volunteers were mobilized:

- A team of three Accenture employees: a digital project manager and two developers who designed and developed the site

- Two Orange Business Services employees who contributed to the scoping phase

The nonprofit’s internal teams: on the LinkedOut side, the project was led by a Product Owner, responsible for operational follow-up and long-term continuity of the solution.
In 2022, the project now involves a 10-person technical and operational team.

Share it’s internal teams:

For this project, the team included:

• A Delivery Manager, who acted as the project lead and the primary support contact for the nonprofit. She oversaw the overall management of the project and coordinated all stakeholders.
• A mentor, a tech entrepreneur, who provided strategic and technical guidance throughout the digital project.

All these teams worked hand in hand to build the solution as it exists today.

Flore de Rufz, Deputy Director of LinkedOut, says: “Share it mobilized the right expertise at the right time for us. They have been a structuring partner from the very beginning.”

The website was developed using React JS and Node JS, and hosted on Heroku.

This project was made possible thanks to the commitment of our skills-based volunteering partners— Accenture, Orange Business Services, and TBWA Corporate —as well as financial partners Accenture, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, and Microsoft.

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The impact and what's next...
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Today, LinkedOut is a a fully-fledged branch of Entourage which has already enabled 138 candidates to find jobs.

LinkedOut is launching the 7th promotion of candidates, and has already deployed the project to more than 280 candidates in Paris, 92, 93, Lille, Lyon, Lyon, Lorient and Rennes. Like Kenny, we wish all the people supported to find a job again!

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You don't know Entourage ? Discover them here: https://www.entourage.social/

To go to LinkedOut and share a resume, it's here: https://www.linkedout.fr/candidats?employed=false

LinkedOut is a project led by the Entourage association, which allows the support of the most precarious or excluded people to return to work. LinkedIn supports the mission and values conveyed by this device, and contributed to the launch of this project by having granted limited use of its LinkedIn brand through a license.

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Article published on 19/09/2022

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