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LinkedIn Endorsements again...
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostI'll endorse you for your spelling if you like.
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to OwlHoot again.Comment
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Postsounds awful. make me glad that I dont bother
However, LinkedIn's definitely the way recruitment is going. Most of the serious work I've picked up this year has been via that channel. There's a fair bit of crud too, it has to be said. (Typically inexperienced companies / hiring managers that mistakenly see themselves as some IT version of Simon Cowell. And who erroneously think that merely because they've advertised a role experienced developers will suddenly be interested in being at their beck and call throughout a one-way recruitment process where they don't have to do any actual recruiting, just sit back and select from the experts that'll no doubt be queuing round the block to work for them.)
For the most part, though, it's just people who need stuff done connecting with people that can do. Because they need to pay to place adverts, you get less of the Simon Cowell types I mentioned earlier, and more of the people who realise that recruitment needs to be a two-way street if it's going to be successful for all parties. I think it'll be the way most of us get new business over the next decade.Comment
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Originally posted by Gentile View PostI'd ordinarily agree. I'm possibly becoming a bit of a fuddy-duddy, but I just don't 'get' social media. I'm not on Facebook, and can't imagine foisting any of the tedious details of my private life onto my friends via Twitter. I only have a Technical Blog and YouTube channel because they help me market myself for contract work, and I studiously avoid putting any personal content on them.
However, LinkedIn's definitely the way recruitment is going. Most of the serious work I've picked up this year has been via that channel. There's a fair bit of crud too, it has to be said. (Typically inexperienced companies / hiring managers that mistakenly see themselves as some IT version of Simon Cowell. And who erroneously think that merely because they've advertised a role experienced developers will suddenly be interested in being at their beck and call throughout a one-way recruitment process where they don't have to do any actual recruiting, just sit back and select from the experts that'll no doubt be queuing round the block to work for them.)
For the most part, though, it's just people who need stuff done connecting with people that can do. Because they need to pay to place adverts, you get less of the Simon Cowell types I mentioned earlier, and more of the people who realise that recruitment needs to be a two-way street if it's going to be successful for all parties. I think it'll be the way most of us get new business over the next decade.
I might look into it one day, if I need it. until then I file it with twitter, bookface and them there transportable telephones.
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