State of the Market

[SussexSeagull]

It isn't. By all means, whine on social media, but hard luck stories in a professional forum aren't going to help your prospects, quite the reverse.

I blame it on the X-Factor/American Idol and the like.

[SussexSeagull]

Ah I should have been clearer - not a fan of the whole "life story" blur into LI but letting your network know you're looking is how I operate. I see arguments on there about folks thinking the whole open to work banner is excessive but I disagree, it's okind of what it is .....

I talk about non work stuff from time to time as it can give a better picture of yourself but there are boundaries.

The whole Open To Work banner argument is usually started by people who give five tips to find a job or similar.

[SussexSeagull]

In theory this should be irrelevant to a potential client, as they should only be interested in a contractor's ability to deliver the project.
In practice clients are human too, and many would be influenced by this. Whether in a positive or negative direction would depend whether the client was compassionate or sadistic..

It is people looking for permanent jobs as well. I have no scientific data to back this up but the ones who start doing seem to be doing it for a while so I am not sure it helps them.

If nothing else it would absolutely kill you in any rate/salary negotiation if you did find a role through it.

[CodeCobbler]

LI stopped being a professional forum a long time ago now. It's pretty much the same as FB nowadays. So much so that's why people moan on it. I have an account but I never use it. Still get the odd recruiter message me now and then, so it still has some purpose.

I deleted LI earlier this year and never looked back. Never got anything from it. Its worse than FB because it pretends its a professional platform, and well at least FB has some decent second hand advertisements. Not even mentioning all the corp cringe slop and bulltulip its always putting in your feed.

[quackhandle]

One thing I have noticed on LI recently is people wanting to connect whose photo looks like a Guess Who? picture.

Err, no thanks, ScamBot.

qh