Linkedin: Premium or Jobseeker?

[Boney M]

It is absolutely piss poor for searching contract roles, regardless of search terms and stuff

[edison]

If you are having to put £30 a month through the company you have bigger problems!

I have the basic free membership, but a good network of connections (including a lot of pimps) and as such get at least one enquiry a week (which in my niche is a high strike rate as JobServe only normally has 1 or 2 roles a week, albeit sometimes through multiple agencies)

I'm not bothered about the £30, it was more of a bookkeeping question...

Agree with you about networking though. My speciality is fairly niche too and now I know a lot of headhunters/agents, I get approaches without having to work too hard. I know quite a few CIOs and plenty of other people at IT Leadership or functional Director level who are the best source of potential leads ultimately for me.

[kevpuk]

I too get spammed with offers of a free trial, but have yet to ever take them up.
Not aversed a trial, but thinking best to save until I might actually get some benefit - i.e. struggling to find next gig. Can't help but think that the price is too high, but I guess that is to support the masses who, like me, make do with free membership

[infosec]

OK, thanks for all of the replies. Sounds like I won't bother if you can't filter on contract work any more than with the freebie account….

[psychocandy]

Tried jobseeker for month when they offered me a month for free.

Totally pointless and I certainly won't be paying for it.

[Damon]

Problem for me, last time I looked on Premium was that you couldn't filter jobs by type so you'd have to be ploughing through a load of permie roles.

Don't know if that has changed?

No it hasn't My biggest frustration too.

[GazCol]

Just join a contractor group, make a couple of posts and you'll have pimps sending you requests all the time.

[Antman]

Problem for me, last time I looked on Premium was that you couldn't filter jobs by type so you'd have to be ploughing through a load of permie roles.

Don't know if that has changed?

[Damon]

I am using Premium atm.

I would say for me the benefits are marginal. The ability to see more on the people looking at your profile, the searches used etc has been useful for tweaking content.

InMail isn't proving that worthwhile. I seek out recruiters and message them; about 50% get returned unread/rejected/ignored but LD the recredits them to you.

Overall marginal benefit but an expense I am willing to speculate on.

I put it through Ltdco directly as a professional subscription.

[SimonMac]

I've thought about the same although in the past I have got a lot of leads from the free membership, albeit those were mainly permie roles.

Is a subscription allowable as a business expense?

If you are having to put £30 a month through the company you have bigger problems!

I have the basic free membership, but a good network of connections (including a lot of pimps) and as such get at least one enquiry a week (which in my niche is a high strike rate as JobServe only normally has 1 or 2 roles a week, albeit sometimes through multiple agencies)

[edison]

Two months on the bench so time to splash the cash and upgrade my linked in profile…. maybe?

For your typical IT contractor looking for contact work is there any benefit to getting the Premium account over the Jobseeker?

Premium £32.95 a month
Jobseeker £19.95

Thanks in advance...

I've thought about the same although in the past I have got a lot of leads from the free membership, albeit those were mainly permie roles.

Is a subscription allowable as a business expense?

[kal]

Two months on the bench so time to splash the cash and upgrade my linked in profile…. maybe?

For your typical IT contractor looking for contact work is there any benefit to getting the Premium account over the Jobseeker?

Premium £32.95 a month
Jobseeker £19.95

Thanks in advance...

I'm dubious. Linked in constantly spam me offering a free month of premium so maybe try before you buy?

[infosec]

Two months on the bench so time to splash the cash and upgrade my linked in profile…. maybe?

For your typical IT contractor looking for contact work is there any benefit to getting the Premium account over the Jobseeker?

Premium £32.95 a month
Jobseeker £19.95

Thanks in advance...