As a business owner and an active person, many people are using LinkedIn in their daily life. Indees
There are different steps we are going to explain in order to do so
What are we going to do and why?
First, the user must have his linkedIn profile connected and if he ou she is working in a Linked In registered company, it will get easier. If he or she is not, it would be interesting to contact the company in order to make it possible for the user to link his LinbkedIn profile to his company's website. Being myself a student looking for an internship, I spend much time in this platform, looking for people's position and precise jobs in companies, in order to be able to contact a human resources director, or head hunter. Thus, I believe it would be great to personalize this research and to call (thanks to an API) the exact organigram or contact sheet of a person, if he or she allows it. I have already seen on the internet (Youtube most of the time) people using API to go the homepage of their companies, but I think it would be more interesting if it were adapted to the users' needs.
Here are the most important steps to do so, including the API:
- First, use an OAuth access, and to do so, we must call an API thanks to the creation of an app via linkedIn
- We must use an existing company website, and the "developpers" page of LinkedIn helps to create the app.
- Once the steps are filled (name, logo, privacy policy AND the URL of the website) we can generate an URL for this app. One very important thing is the privacy policy for the user, if everyone can access his personnal data, he must know it!
- Then we must encode the URL of the website
- Once we called the API, we have an access token, but with code we could go futher and personnalize the data.