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Previously on "LinkedIn is it worth the time"
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I recommend it as another string to your bow. You can track down previous managers, see where they are working now and drop them a line to see if there is anything coming up. I don't recommend you list your current location as you'll get people fishing in your waters.
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I feel really positive about LinkedIn and what I've got out of it.
But then again I've never spent a single minute answering the questions posed by others so perhaps that's the key to feeling positive about the effort/reward ratio
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostI put in at least 300 hours into LinkedIn. I answered shedloads of questions. Eventually I realised I was teaching other dickheads how to do my job, in my time, for free. But I really persevered with it. All I have had out of it is the occasional agent wanting to join my network and requests for help from overseas incompetent idiots that never even bother to say "Thank you".
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostEventually I realised I was teaching other dickheads how to do my job, in my time, for free.
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Linkedin Good and Bad
I receive quite a few emails for jobs even before they appear on Jobserve and
I have have even received one or two offers direct from clients who have held
on to my CV that they must have received from agencies.
The downside is that groups are flooded with Indians. I would not join a Russian group as I don't speak Russian so why do they join French or Dutch
groups
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Originally posted by MPwannadecentincome View PostI won't be buying any of those, maybe a ContractorUK T shirt though.
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostI'm appalled. Yes: stinky linky. WTF were they thinking of using that photo?
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I put in at least 300 hours into LinkedIn. I answered shedloads of questions. Eventually I realised I was teaching other dickheads how to do my job, in my time, for free. But I really persevered with it. All I have had out of it is the occasional agent wanting to join my network and requests for help from overseas incompetent idiots that never even bother to say "Thank you".
In the Q&A I got 17 Best Answers, more in Project Management than anywhere else. I've just been to check how many answers I've done in total and it only tells you about the 30 most recent, so it seems there is no record of my contribution.
For jobseeking, it is utterly useless as I'm not in Merkinland.
The Event notices is desperately slow and they are all irrelevant. A Personnel Seminar in London. Great. A PRINCE2 conference in New Zealand. How convenient.
The Groups is a complete shambles.
The messaging is clunky and I cannot see how to stop the spammers.
I have promoted LinkedIn membership to quote a few people and got them to join. I just hope one of them has had something out of it.
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Linked In
My personal experience of Linked In is that like another network and orum you have to invest time in it.
But there are plenty of agencies there looking for poeople it seems to me, so the better profile you have and the easier you make it for people to contact you, the more you will be found in searches there.
But you will also be found quicker taking part in forums and as a member of the right contractor groups.
But its free, so maybe has a good potential ROI ?
Phil
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Originally posted by MPwannadecentincome View Postare they selling T shirts yet?
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Originally posted by BlackenedBiker View PostBeen there done that
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LinkedIn is it worth the time
Short answer: Yes, if you do it properly and watch those privacy settings.
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I've been on there for a year now and it's done nothing for me from a business perspective.
It has allowed me to catch up with a couple of old colleagues I'd lost touch with.
Never been tempted by the "paid for" version though, maybe that's better?
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Originally posted by zara_backdog View PostSearch for the group contractoruk and join some of us there. I was starting to get a few leads a couple of months ago but landed a contract before I started following any of them up.
Good luck
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