professional networking platform linkedin It on Thursday unveiled a user interface in Hindi with a target to support 600 million Hindi language speakers globally. With this launch, LinkedIn aims to break down language barriers, giving Hindi speakers greater access to professional and networking opportunities. India and around the world. With the launch of Hindi, LinkedIn now supports 25 languages globally.
“We have seen high engagement and member growth over the past year, and it is at this exciting juncture that we strengthen our vision to create economic opportunities for ‘every’ member of the workforce and remove language barriers for Hindi speakers. world,” Ashutosh Gupta, India Country Manager, LinkedIn, said in a statement.
As part of LinkedIn’s first phase roll-out of Hindi in Hindi from Thursday, members will be able to access their feeds, profiles, jobs, messaging and create content in Hindi on desktop and on their Android and iOS phones.
As a next step, LinkedIn will work towards broadening the job opportunities available to Hindi speaking professionals in industries including more banking and government jobs. The platform will continue to add more Hindi publishers and creators in the coming weeks to foster member engagement and interaction in Hindi.
To view the LinkedIn mobile application in Hindi, smartphone users need to select Hindi as their preferred device language under phone settings. For members who are already using Hindi as their preferred language on their smartphone, the LinkedIn experience will automatically be available in Hindi.
On desktop, members need to click on the ‘Me’ icon at the top of their LinkedIn homepage and select ‘Settings & Privacy’. Members will then need to click on ‘Account Preferences’ on the left, select ‘Site Preferences’, click ‘Change’ next to ‘Language’, and select ‘Hindi’ from the drop down list.
India is a major market for growth in LinkedIn and the second largest market in terms of members after the US, which accounts for 82 million members as part of a global community of 800 million members. The company claims that India’s member base has grown by 20+ million in the last three years (15 percent year-on-year growth) and has seen an increase in engagement and interactions on the platform since the pandemic.
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