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SimonMac replied

23 July 2013, 14:31
Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post

Have you got a criminal record?

Does this count?
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DodgyAgent replied

23 July 2013, 14:27
Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

No skills, no friends, no career opportunities, does that mean I qualify as a recruitment agent?

Have you got a criminal record?
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SimonMac replied

23 July 2013, 13:52
Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post

Sorry but no. You still have a personality. And ethics.

One of those is debatable
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BrilloPad replied

23 July 2013, 13:44
Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

No skills, no friends, no career opportunities, does that mean I qualify as a recruitment agent?

Sorry but no. You still have a personality. And ethics.
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SimonMac replied

23 July 2013, 13:43
Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post

As you haven't got any they are making them up for you

No skills, no friends, no career opportunities, does that mean I qualify as a recruitment agent?
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insur replied

23 July 2013, 13:21
Originally posted by stek View Post

I got endorsed by my just left uni daughter!

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2

That almost made me laugh out loud in the office. Brilliant!
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Bunk replied

23 July 2013, 12:47
Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post

As you haven't got any they are making them up for you

They could have picked something useful, rather than tape-changing

Milan's got that market sewn up
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norrahe replied

23 July 2013, 12:46
Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

How can someone endorse you for a skill you don't even have listed

quite easily, it's normally a prompt within linkedin and you can add a skill to someone's list.

I've turned off the endorsements so people can't see them on my profile.
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DodgyAgent replied

23 July 2013, 12:44
Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

How can someone endorse you for a skill you don't even have listed

As you haven't got any they are making them up for you
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BrilloPad replied

23 July 2013, 09:07
So you got endorsed for waffling?

Hang on - that is a skill you have. Maybe linbkedin knows you better than you think.
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Old Greg replied

23 July 2013, 09:05
I got endorsed for a skill I didn't have and then got approached by a pp and offered a gig on the back of it. Weird.
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doodab replied

22 July 2013, 09:49
Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

How can someone who you've never even met endorse you for a skill you don't even have listed

It's the future.
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MyUserName replied

22 July 2013, 09:39
I am a C++ programmer. Essentially it is all I have done, in terms of languages, for about 15 years. I have also done some personal projects in C#. No one else has ever really seen or used these programs.

Currently, I have more endorsements for C# than for C++.
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bobspud replied

22 July 2013, 09:35
Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

I'll admit yeah it does seem to be agents who randomly endorse anything, however as I am getting more leads from LinkedIn than more conventional sources its something I am gonna have to put up with more and more I guess

Don't forget that an agent speaks to many number of candidates every day. If you spend 20 minutes explaining a concept or a skill to them and the next 30 candidates turn up like shaven apes unable to do much more than spell the skill on their CV then to the agent you have come across as knowing your skills well and worth an endorsement.
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SimonMac replied

22 July 2013, 09:16
Originally posted by scooterscot View Post

Then stop accepting invites from agents.

Nothing puts me off a profile faster seeing it listed with number of followers, 500+ gazillion

I'll admit yeah it does seem to be agents who randomly endorse anything, however as I am getting more leads from LinkedIn than more conventional sources its something I am gonna have to put up with more and more I guess
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