LinkedIn contacts - does your network really give a ****?

[courtg9000]

Yes, it is. If that's how you use it.

Or, you can _not_ read the idiotic posts and treat it as a place to post your CV/job history/profile and search for roles.
As a side benefit, it allows me to keep track of colleagues and exchange messages with agents.

As a sidebar, describing WhatsApp as a social media app always confused me.
I use it as an encrypted messaging service that also does phone and video calls over WiFi.
Am I using it wrong?

No you are not using WhatsApp wrong, but Meta are trying to add a social media side to WhatsApp (very badly in my opinion).

[fatJock]

Last couple of roles I've had via LinkedIn - posted a month or so from when I'm available and had a few nibbles from folks I'd worked with in the past. Nor overly optimistic this time given what I read on here but I suspect that's largely due to wider downturn than quality of a well managed network.

If you just click add to everyone who asks then I suspect traction is limited but I guess I'll be finding out soon how relevant my LinkedIn network is soon seeing as my current gig is due to end early October.

[SussexSeagull]

If they haven't got anything going they can't really help you out.

[oliverson]

If they haven't got anything going they can't really help you out.

True but many of these are 'team mates' you had a few beers with after work on occasions, one guy I even raced 100m down the banks of the River Thames one freezing cold December. Iron man took it really serious and beat me by a second or so. He had a drill instructor preparing him for weeks leading up to the race. I was in the bars in Canary Wharf every day after work with a contracting buddy!

The least they can do is reply though, ask how you are, etc. That's what I do when somebody I know pings me. However, the loathing I feel for LinkedIn these days and what it has become, I think when (not if) I eventually get back in contract, I'll never visit LinkedIn again.

[sadkingbilly]

True but many of these are 'team mates' you had a few beers with after work on occasions, one guy I even raced 100m down the banks of the River Thames one freezing cold December. Iron man took it really serious and beat me by a second or so. He had a drill instructor preparing him for weeks leading up to the race. I was in the bars in Canary Wharf every day after work with a contracting buddy!

The least they can do is reply though, ask how you are, etc. That's what I do when somebody I know pings me. However, the loathing I feel for LinkedIn these days and what it has become, I think when (not if) I eventually get back in contract, I'll never visit LinkedIn again.

i'm sure you'll be missed.

[oliverson]

i'm sure you'll be missed.

My own personal stalker. I feel so lucky.