In recent years, social media has shifted from exclusively personal use to platforms that
recruiters and companies alike frequent in order to establish work connections and find potential
hires. As such, LinkedIn, a professional social media platform, holds promise as a tool to
actively improve the opportunity for younger users (i.e.: undergraduate/undergraduate-adjacent
individuals) in Indonesia to obtain jobs and build professional connections. However, as of
current the appeal of LinkedIn for this target demographic is limited. This research aims to
determine what factors impact user engagement on LinkedIn, the factors being adapted from Di
Ganggi & Wasko (2016)’s social media engagement theory. The factors tested include
personalization, social accessibility, perceived risk, and transparency. The dataset for the
research was obtained via online questionnaire, distributed via convenience sampling to the
target demographic of undergraduate/undergraduate-adjacent LinkedIn users. A total of 126
respondents filled out the questionnaire, with 124 entries having been deemed valid. The
resulting entries were then processed through PLS-SEM for data analysis via SMART PLS. The
results indicate that while personalization and social accessibility have a positive correlation with
the level of user engagement on LinkedIn, no significant correlation exists between perceived
risk, transparency, and the level of user engagement.