Fresh from its IPO, Gigaom reports that LinkedIn is getting ready to launch a plug-in button for employers’ websites simply called “Apply With LinkedIn”.

It will allow candidates to upload their LinkedIn profile instead of a curriculum vitae. Smart move.

It makes perfect sense and it is the easiest way to get LinkedIn buttons seeded out across the web at a time when other social networks are also battling for button space on publisher’s websites.

It also helps advance LinkIned’s position as a key part of the way that people apply for jobs online. The move could help persuade those who don’t have a LinkedIn account to get one and make it the default digital CV.

“LinkedIn is currently in talks with a number of companies that will incorporate the “Apply With LinkedIn” plug-in on their jobs pages for the feature’s launch, which is slated for later this month, according to a source briefed on the feature.

“Apply With LinkedIn is being touted by the company as a way to remove friction from the job application process by enabling people to use their LinkedIn profiles as resumes. The plug-in also bundles applicants’ data to simplify the sorting process on the employer side,” Gigaom reports.