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Last month, we surpassed a major milestone: 200 million members.  With members joining LinkedIn at a rate of approximately two per second, we offer recruiters a larger and more diverse talent pool than ever before.

Today, we have another exciting announcement to make: we are expanding our diversity offering to help customers reach diverse professionals in even more places on the web.  We have teamed up with the Professional Diversity Network (PDN), a Chicago-based diversity recruitment firm that shares our vision that professional networks have the power to drive positive change and connect talent with opportunity.

Even with an added Leap Day, February flew by! Many of your peers were sharing articles on LinkedIn, ranging from tips for being great at your job to the shift in the recruitment market. Here are the top 5 stories from this past month:

Top recruiters agree that all interview questions stem from these three key questions that evaluate the following: strength, motivation and fit. Does your set of interview questions cover these important bases?

The month of January brought new beginnings for 2012, as well as great recruiting stories shared by your peers on LinkedIn Today. Read on for the most-shared stories of the month.

This editorial piece highlights the art of recruitment. Winning recruiters, the author says, make recruiting look easy: they possess a deeper understanding and invested passion for making possible even the most impossible candidate searches.

Believe it or not, the end of the year is fast approaching. But before we say goodbye to 2011 and hello to 2012, let’s revisit the top stories from the past year that had recruiting professionals everywhere talking. From creative sourcing tactics to the future of recruiting, here are some of your most shared articles for each month of 2011 in staffing and recruiting on LinkedIn Today (plus bonus content from November and December!).

March
March was the big month that catapulted our launch of LinkedIn Today. LinkedIn Today is now fundamentally changing the way our members engage with LinkedIn and get up to speed on the topics most important to them.