Reply to: LinkedIn Crap

[scooterscot]

To be honest I think LinkedIn is the way forwards and can see it replacing a lot of the older way of doing things (Jobserve etc.).

I have had a lot of genuine roles being offered to me through it and it is a great way to notify everybody at once that you are coming available.

WHS - At rough estimate €25k came through business from linked-in last year. Not loads but enough to keep me on spaghetti for a few months.

[Zero Liability]

I like it, I have seen quite a few banking contract roles on there which go un-advertised and unmentioned on the agencies' websites, plus it is basically like a 'live' CV in some ways, what with the endorsements and such.

[Paddy]

Had a load of Linkedin crap today and I told them all to go and f&c£ themselves .

[yasockie]

The only rule I have that's worth spreading is I don't connect to pimps - they want to suck your connections dry and give them your job and pester them with irrelevant offers.
They still can through premium accounts, but they will think twice as it costs money.
So if you can don't add known pimps to your networks.

[The Spartan]

So I have plenty of recommendations, out of courtesy I recommend others on their strengths in return - pick out their positives and only in some cases give no recommendations at all (when they are completely pants).

If they ask for a recommendation and are pretty good at what they do then it is a no brainer of course, but on the other hand if they don't ask then they don't get one.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Nope it just shows that people are happy to recommend me

So I have plenty of recommendations, out of courtesy I recommend others on their strengths in return - pick out their positives and only in some cases give no recommendations at all (when they are completely pants).

[The Spartan]

Does that show you are lazy or something?

Nope it just shows that people are happy to recommend me

[Ticktock]

It would be worth doing anyway thought, wouldn't it? Just in case the people do not check for it?

Yes it would. If some of your skills have been checked off by lots of people then I doubt very much whether anyone is going to go through checking the names of everyone and cross-referencing their profiles.
I legitimately rate people I have worked with if certain of their skills have impressed me. They have rated me, of course, as I'm just an all-round superstar. The only reason we've rated each other is because we both know each other and what the other is good at.

However, I also see nothing wrong with, and have recommended to others, that they speak to their contacts and ask if they would endorse certain skills, if getting those boosted will be more useful for your job hunting than other skills. Worst case, they'll say "no", but I got a bit sick of people endorsing me for skills that are useless to the type of work I do.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Oh indeed most definitely, I feel it does go in your favour when people view your profile.

I only mentioned it as after I landed my current gig the guy who interviewed me commented on the amount of recommendations I had and he then told me he checked to see if I had recommended those people who had recommended me, of which there were only 2 in total.

Does that show you are lazy or something?

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

It would be worth doing anyway thought, wouldn't it? Just in case the people do not check for it?

It's always good to get recommendations, at least it shows you are able to build relationships and get on with people!

[The Spartan]

It would be worth doing anyway thought, wouldn't it? Just in case the people do not check for it?

Oh indeed most definitely, I feel it does go in your favour when people view your profile.

I only mentioned it as after I landed my current gig the guy who interviewed me commented on the amount of recommendations I had and he then told me he checked to see if I had recommended those people who had recommended me, of which there were only 2 in total.

[MyUserName]

I'd be careful as people are always on the look out for back scratchers when it comes to recommendations, so if they recommend you and you've recommended them they'll just dismiss it that recommendation.

It would be worth doing anyway thought, wouldn't it? Just in case the people do not check for it?

[The Spartan]

As said I think LinkedIn is the way forward, I will accept an invite from anyone, usually pimps but it does work because you get a wider presence and now get approached for more contracts through LinkedIn than anyother source, I do tend to avoid the LION's (LinkedIn Open Networks) who basically accept an invite from everyone, and try to connect with as many people as possible to again spread their area of reach, but to be honest it usually just fills up my timeline with crap from these people only

I agree, I've had a lot more legitimate offers of work from LI for the past few months that from other means.

What annoys me is that the majority of groups on LI are utter tulip

[The Spartan]

Yeah, I'm asking people to drop me recommendations on LinkedIn because they seem to bee viewed near enough as well as references. They're personal and have a name attached so you can actually view what relationship the person had with them and so on.

I'd be careful as people are always on the look out for back scratchers when it comes to recommendations, so if they recommend you and you've recommended them they'll just dismiss it that recommendation.

[SimonMac]

As said I think LinkedIn is the way forward, I will accept an invite from anyone, usually pimps but it does work because you get a wider presence and now get approached for more contracts through LinkedIn than anyother source, I do tend to avoid the LION's (LinkedIn Open Networks) who basically accept an invite from everyone, and try to connect with as many people as possible to again spread their area of reach, but to be honest it usually just fills up my timeline with crap from these people only