Reply to: LinkedIn endorsements...

[SimonMac]

Here is a new one, I have just been endorsed for skills that weren't even on my profile

[bobspud]

Someone endorsed me for my recruiting skills

Well you are still here so you must be doing something to pay the bills

[DodgyAgent]

Someone endorsed me for my recruiting skills

[bobspud]

Remember skills are more than just clicking server buttons...

Who cares if the endorsements work or not as long as your profile gets up the top of the stats so that agents see you?

[psychocandy]

Bigggest load of bollax ever on LinkedIn the endorsements idea. Refuse to get involved with it for reasons already mentioned.

[NickFitz]

Outmoded maybe, but also out there.

Been programming Basic commercially for 26 years!!

Even Excel 2013 still has VBA built in.

Be here for a while longer yet.

Fair enough; I was thinking more of doing it to the kind of people who put stuff like Clojure, Go, and MongoDB at the top of their skillsets

[MyUserName]

Shhhh! Don't jinx it, I'm about to deliver my first ever application.

[Scrag Meister]

Yeah, it takes about that long to get anything decent written in Basic

Shhhh! Don't jinx it, I'm about to deliver my first ever application.

[MyUserName]

Been programming Basic commercially for 26 years!!

Yeah, it takes about that long to get anything decent written in Basic

[rob s]

When your squash partner 'endorses' your coding skills on LinkedIn... ? The Register

[Scrag Meister]

I've played Endorsement Bingo, where you keep clicking on the panels until all four are recruitment agents. If you're feeling particularly evil you can endorse people for drastically outmoded skills like Visual Basic or, even better, VBScript.

Outmoded maybe, but also out there.

Been programming Basic commercially for 26 years!!

Even Excel 2013 still has VBA built in.

Be here for a while longer yet.

[eek]

I've played Endorsement Bingo, where you keep clicking on the panels until all four are recruitment agents. If you're feeling particularly evil you can endorse people for drastically outmoded skills like Visual Basic or, even better, VBScript.

I'm glad to accept those if offered. The last vbscript call I got was 4 figures (before the full stop) for about a days work.

[MyUserName]

I've played Endorsement Bingo, where you keep clicking on the panels until all four are recruitment agents. If you're feeling particularly evil you can endorse people for drastically outmoded skills like Visual Basic or, even better, VBScript.

Talking of outmoded skills, I have sword fighting as one of my skills on there but no one has endorsed me for it yet

[northernladuk]

My accountant endorsed me for 'ITIL' I doubt he even knows what it stands for.

Can you quietly remove useless endorsements?

If you opt out of the AWR they will stop

[NickFitz]

I've played Endorsement Bingo, where you keep clicking on the panels until all four are recruitment agents. If you're feeling particularly evil you can endorse people for drastically outmoded skills like Visual Basic or, even better, VBScript.